Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 2 | I have rarely heard him sound more relaxed . |
| 3 | I have very successfully manipulated you here and I am keeping you here . |
| 4 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 5 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 6 | All those years ago they had thoughtfully placed it unusually low on the wall to make it easy for the child Maggie had then been to reach . |
| 7 | She was one of the family and poor Jack , that was the father , he thought they 'd all treated her badly … . ’ |
| 8 | So all together given me about five pounds . |
| 9 | It was a moment before Carson was able to place the researcher 's voice — after all , he 'd only heard it once before but he said , ‘ Yes , I 'm alone . |
| 10 | I 've only heard it once or twice in the last few |
| 11 | Bill had only parked it here a few minutes ago . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 13 | I 've only seen her once |
| 14 | He told me he 's infallibly able to recognize women even if he 's only seen them once . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 16 | I 've only seen it once . |
| 17 | He had delightedly hung it there . |
| 18 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |
| 19 | His silence and inertia would have only made him more lifelike and I would , at once , have been treated as ‘ one of the girls ’ . |
| 20 | He had tried to give her an injection but it had only made her more hysterical . |
| 21 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 22 | If we can persuade birds to come and perch on it in a row fairly close together we have obviously made it much easier to see the wire . |
| 23 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 24 | The disappointment of not being selected for Rosemary 's Baby had merely made him more determined to change his life . |
| 25 | Only done her once ? |
| 26 | Really I think I 've only done it twice this term . |
| 27 | ‘ Promises ’ song was music first ( that 's hard and I 've only done it once since ) and ‘ Sincerely Yours ’ was Rab Handleigh 's ‘ tribute ’ to Barry Manilow which he performed with perfect schmaltz suavity . |
| 28 | I 've only done it once with crisps I had some were soggy and sour and horrible |
| 29 | Well , he 's only done it once and that was when it was in a coat pocket and he pulled it out and it sort of must |
| 30 | This is the , it 's only the I 've only fed it today er |