Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I put a half-crown in for him later . |
| 2 | But it ties in with my earlier discussion of ethology and my original Cartesian Figure 3.1 , and with my assertion that we have a psychological need to perceive ourselves as normal and ell regulated . |
| 3 | There is no mention of Stamford in these letters and the tale must have been created by Hardyng to fit in with his earlier mythology . |
| 4 | Mother and Father had retired hurt , along with my younger brother , Fergus , and they spent an unhappy night wrestling with the toils of sea-sickness . |
| 5 | If there was a single reason , thought Henry , why he was once again determined to poison her , it was probably her stubborn refusal to go along with his earlier attempt . |
| 6 | But now , cooling down in our larger stores , you 'll also find French bread with a capital F. Because although Sainsbury 's bake it , it 's actually made in France . |
| 7 | Her teeth crunched down on her lower lip as the whirlpool of her desire sped her back to Seville when this sort of contact had been enough to … |
| 8 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 9 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 10 | Preoccupied with clinging to the remnants of their well-being , there is no time or energy left over for anything grander . |
| 11 | Methodical , precise and administratively cautious , he carried over from his earlier experience as a member of the Poor Law Board a determination to subordinate medical experts to the lay administration . |
| 12 | It is perpetuating its independent existence within your being , taking away your ability to control your life because you have handed this over to your lower nature — or to ‘ life ’ — within you . |
| 13 | Her pretty perspiring face split into a sheepish grin , then became serious again on reflection of being taken over by her baser instincts so completely . |
| 14 | The bearded Hearthware nodded , and stalked off with his younger companions in tow . |
| 15 | An urgent giggle worked its way up through my sphincter muscles and caught in my throat . |
| 16 | Yet it may be bad for other firms , even sound ones , since lenders will become increasingly wary , and may charge higher interest rates overall to make up for their higher risks . |
| 17 | Comfort 's anguished determination to make up for her earlier coldness made her far more interfering than Annunziata , whose calm gentleness provided the only moments of real respite for Julia . |
| 18 | People would say he was harmless , but I did n't like the idea of my remarks and behaviour being stored up for him later to gossip about or pass judgment on . |
| 19 | The producer did finally arrive about half an hour into the party , and he scurried around meeting everyone , making up for his earlier absence . |
| 20 | He let go her hands , and made up for his earlier error by making a fuss of the dog , who was sitting on his own blanket , adding laughingly , ‘ Even Hector is obliged to take notice of it , I see . ’ |
| 21 | Le Tissier made up for his earlier error after 72 minutes when he crashed home a 30-yard a left-foot volley but his team could find no way back . |
| 22 | Go on , you come up with something better than ‘ specific functionality ’ … |
| 23 | Kylie , by now Neighbours most popular character , teamed up with her younger sister who had now established herself as a star on a TV series Young Talent Time . |
| 24 | She left Martin , promising to catch up with him later . |
| 25 | She caught up with him later in the staff-room , cracking jokes about second-rate coffee . |
| 26 | The London Midland Region also gave up with its older AC electric locomotives , first its troublesome contractor-built Classes 82 , 83 and 84 , and then with new designs coming along , Classes 81 and 85 were into their last days . |
| 27 | I would have caught up with you earlier but I saw you talking to that poor downtrodden mouse of a Haynes woman and waited till she 'd gone . |
| 28 | If , with the help of all the civil servants who advise Ministers and who sit under the Gallery and elsewhere , one worked on a policy to create crime , one could not come up with anything better than what the Government have created in the past 12 years . |
| 29 | A damp heat was building up in her lower body , unbearably tantalising . |
| 30 | At least , he 'd hated her after that single flare of interest as she 'd climbed out of Peter 's hired jeep , but it had died instantly when , striding boyishly round the front of the vehicle , Peter had gone straight up to his elder brother and announced , ‘ Meet my amazing fiancée , big brother ! ’ |