Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | While nineteenth-century Catholic teaching had been suspicious of ‘ human rights ’ discourse , John embraced it eagerly and made it a central theme , greatly extending the range and number of ‘ rights ’ , including those of minorities ( 95–7 ) and refugees ( 103–8 ) . |
2 | I approached it eagerly and touched it . |
3 | He took the paper eagerly and folded it carefully into his wallet . |
4 | If that council harboured its resources sensibly and deployed them effectively , it would be able to spend them in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
5 | When his lips came back to hers , Jenna was soft and pliant , no resistance in her at all , and he rolled on to his back , pulling her over him fiercely and cupped her hot face in strong fingers . |
6 | Christina decided he looked happy enough and left him to enjoy himself . |
7 | So one day my girlfriend just had enough and told them to fuck off . |
8 | He was pleasant enough and told her all she needed to know . |
9 | He had drunk enough and wished he had n't . |
10 | When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room . |
11 | Do n't I get old enough and did me best perhaps he might change his mind |
12 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |
13 | If the current trend continues , the landowners to whom the bothies belong , could decide that enough is enough and withdraw their permission for usage . |
14 | You know I think we 've gone over it long enough and leave it to see the er |
15 | In fact , the skirmish never took place because the enemy crossed the river further upstream and took their objective ‘ by the back-door ’ . |
16 | Find out what the person in doubt is believing wrongly and help him to follow the logic of these presuppositions to their necessary conclusion . |
17 | With this , she once more wrapped up warmly and made her way to the stable . |
18 | So he received Tess warmly and asked her how her family were . |
19 | We drove into Sligo , where Peter shook my hand warmly and wished me luck . |
20 | We thank her again most warmly and implore her most genuinely ‘ Will ye no come back again ? ’ |
21 | The scriptwriter — a trim , balding man in his fifties with a moustache — squeezed Dexter 's hand a little too warmly and gave him a serious smile of appraisal . |
22 | We even paid a surprise visit to Corsham , where Rosemary and Clifford Ellis welcomed us warmly and invited me to give a series of lectures and classes . |
23 | Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one . |
24 | Funny how with all their computers and name-matching , these people never seem to come up with offers of anything one actually wants : Diners Club France has chosen Cardpac , Sema Group Plc 's software package for managing credit cards , to support a ‘ new commercial strategy and to develop its financial and non-financial services ’ in a contract said to be worth between $1.45m and $1.8m : ‘ We will use Cardpac to follow our clients ’ activity and to construct a database segmented by expenses , in order to understand client profiles better and to adapt our offers to their needs , ’ said Rolf Harff , managing director of Diners Club France . |
25 | We are persuading logging companies and governments to manage the logging of rainforests better and to grow their own hardwoods on separate plantations outside the rainforest . |
26 | Quite simply , you need to apply other skills to maximise on those two minutes of swinging the club : the result ? — you play better and enjoy it more . |
27 | Combining the experience of age and the energy of youth might help all of us to understand God better and recognise him in our lives today . |
28 | In the early months of her grief , you and her other helpers may need to listen endlessly and give her quiet comfort during her episodes of extreme anguish and emotional excursions into the past . |
29 | He grinned suddenly and touched her cheek lightly with his fingers . |
30 | He thrust his face close to hers suddenly and made her jump , pulling her round so that she was close and more aware than she ever wanted to be again of his dominant masculinity . |