Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slave will not work unless he is made , and therefore he does little ; he is no better , or little better , if he does his work well than if he does it ill , and therefore he rarely cares to do it very well . |
| 2 | Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England . |
| 3 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 4 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 5 | Selina donned an apron and put her hair up under a baseball cap and prickled with female make-do and knowhow , while Mandy and Debby took it in turns to amuse me downstairs . |
| 6 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 7 | I shall never forget the kindness of the many people who took it in turns to give me a lift , so that I did n't have to drive there and back . |
| 8 | For an hour or two each day , no more , Howard and Felicity take it in turns to teach them . |
| 9 | But Punition fretted all the way across , and her groom and a French veterinary surgeon took it in turns to comfort her . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's a very chauvinistic remark , and only goes to prove you must be associating with the wrong kind of woman . ’ |
| 11 | it 's a fabulous aeroplane , and this excercise only goes to prove it |
| 12 | Then he had some caviar and rang Italy and said , ‘ Sophia , this play I sent that Marlon 's going to do , he only wants to do it with you . |
| 13 | Trouble is she only wants to buy it off you cheaply you see , for |
| 14 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 15 | Lord Byron so loves to hear me play ! ’ |
| 16 | The affection I feel for you personally has led me , if anything , to understate it . |
| 17 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 18 | Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned . |
| 19 | Dear Julie gets drunk and for some bizarre reason suddenly starts feeling you up under the table while we 're nibbling our cheese and biscuits , and making pathetic double-entendres , and attacks you outside the bathroom ; totally unprovoked , of course , and it 's all just the drink talking . |
| 20 | Elizabeth only has to phone him . ’ |
| 21 | Money and effort that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields has been wasted on power politics and I agree that it 's time surely to put an end to that disgrace now there is a certain logic in Mr amendment , it basically says let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education , let him take executive control and let us take politics out of it and if I thought that that would do what both Mr and myself want to happen I would support . |
| 22 | Mr Fairham obviously chooses to ignore it . ’ |
| 23 | A rich fatty diet not only tends to make you overweight , it can also raise the level of cholesterol in the bloodstream — a predictor of heart disease . |
| 24 | Barclays bundles together orders to make them more economical , though it guarantees to deal within three hours , and the shareholder can call back to check the price . |
| 25 | But she obviously intends to seduce you . ’ |
| 26 | The rubble of solid chilled material overlying the hot core naturally tends to insulate it , and it does so very efficiently . |
| 27 | The lack of detail in recalls made it impossible to adequately divide information into central and peripheral , however , in the sense that most information given was related to events on the road , the information which was recalled should probably be categorized as largely central to the task of driving . |
| 28 | Our parents live some distance away , she only gets to see them every few weeks , but I 'm close to hand , I 'm here to listen . |
| 29 | But … but it only seems to make him worse . ’ |
| 30 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |