Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Lewis 's conception of the book changed as he himself changed , and nothing much more got written until 193 1 . |
| 2 | Until now the greeting I most often heard had been G'Tag or Morgen . |
| 3 | The manually wound windows I just about learned to live with , but the lack of central locking and the consequently long and awkward stretches to lock passenger doors provided the sort of exercise I can do without . |
| 4 | I thought I oh and it must , must be the one round now I think I just about managed to get round the front |
| 5 | ‘ I really just wanted to see somebody who had done some heinous crimes and find out if there was anything different about him that would throw light on demon possession , that type of thing , ’ he says . |
| 6 | ‘ I really just wanted to see if Mr Hunter was available , ’ she said , trying to keep her voice casual . |
| 7 | A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks . |
| 8 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 9 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 10 | It was a piece of work that I very much enjoyed organising and following through to completion . |
| 11 | The elitist image that Reynolds himself so carefully nurtured has been successfully transplanted in British soil , principally through the efforts of David Norman , David Shellard and , more recently , Roddy Gow , ex-Trinity College Cambridge , the Scots Guards and Barclays Bank : clearly the British equivalents of the Ivy Leaguers back in New York . |
| 12 | Its softly rounded and gently coloured contours , dotted with lush trees and russet houses , set comfortably into the landscape like plump and cosy chickens , were in strong contrast to coastal Northumberland which so often looked scoured and rough . |
| 13 | The Houghton Band provided the music and an admirable caller who managed to direct even those of us with two left feet through an amazing number of turns and convolutions which somehow always managed to bring us back to our starting point . |
| 14 | Most of the men there had families or commitments in England , and while they would support the Irish cause in word and sometimes in deed , no-one ever seriously considered leaving everything to go and fight for the cause . |
| 15 | People who most often claimed to understand interest rates well were , in order : professional/managerial people , men ( as opposed to women ) , and people currently using a lot of credit . |
| 16 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 17 | However Crewe came back into the game a scored after 30 minutes or so when Strach misplaced a pass in the midfield where upon some Crewe player broke away and rolled the ball past Beaney and Hodge ( who only just missed intercepting it ) . |
| 18 | Herr Bjorn Engholm , head of the opposition Social Democrats , who only just managed to retain an overall majority in his Schleswig-Holstein constituency after an eight per cent drop in electoral fortunes , called for a ‘ national pact of common sense ’ with the ruling Christian Democrats . |
| 19 | Howey has got it off to a T : so far , she has thrown many of her top opponents with it , including Emanuella Pierantozzi , the Italian world title-holder , who only just managed to twist out and avoid a score in the last world championships . |
| 20 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |
| 21 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 22 | He had the air , not of the proprietor of the hotel , but of a long-term guest who no longer bothered to pay his bills . |
| 23 | It was cooler tonight than it had been of late , besides which she no longer dared to sleep in her underwear , and she pulled on a shortie nightshirt , a farewell present from her brothers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And when you never even bothered to reply … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You never really meant to go to the police at all , did you ? ’ said Scarlet . |
| 27 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 28 | Of all 12 possible comments , this was the one most frequently applied to bank loans . |
| 29 | In India , where continued hegemony was now the consideration paramount above all others in the minds of British politicians , a wholehearted attempt at such a policy , by one so well qualified to pursue it , must have seemed at least worth a try . |
| 30 | A special kind of morality , therefore , emerges amongst male adolescents , one again originally programmed to serve the overarching imperative for survival . |