Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says . |
| 2 | In our history lecture I grasped only the most basic nature of this ‘ wunderkinder ’ warrior creed , but it was something which I was to find permeating the Legion at every level . |
| 3 | Having done this , I noticed all the more the effect of the pale light coming into the room and the way it lit up the edges of my father 's craggy , lined , still awesome features . |
| 4 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 5 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 6 | At once I waved away the unjustly famous quotation which sprang with great obviousness to my mind . |
| 7 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 8 | ‘ I brought only the most attractive brochures , ’ Adam said . |
| 9 | But I think probably the most disturbing was some of the poor people in , in psychiatry erm and er that was very hard work because you seemed to take the problems home with you and you kept thinking about some of the conditions that people had . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I think even the most broadminded of men would be taken aback by this . ’ |
| 11 | Yes I agree with the fact ther3e was n't enough cheap accomodation in barcelona … beu I think even the most violent of our detractors would agree there 's a not a lot we can do about that . |
| 12 | I think perhaps the most important thing is that voluntary agencies should do what they believe is right , and not allow their own objectives to be distorted , simply because a , of particular flavours , which is why I 'm saying let us grab the agenda and write the agenda , rather than have the agenda set for us by other people . |
| 13 | A couple of years ago I witnessed probably the most heavy groundbaiting programme of all time . |
| 14 | To watch them pretending not to know all the things about me which I take not the least trouble to conceal . |
| 15 | And as to you , we are — ’ remembering his diplomacy — ‘ we are good companions , but I have n't the least wish to remarry . ’ |
| 16 | But I have not the least doubt that , if confronted by a practical demand , with his great gifts he will work in other fields with complete success . " |
| 17 | David did n't like it because he was on there and so we went through saying that I have only the most important |
| 18 | Why should I accept even the very small risk of living near a dump site for nuclear waste when I believe that nuclear power is costly , dangerous and unneeded ? |
| 19 | The longer I stayed there the more likely it was that I 'd make some betraying movement and fix their attention in me . |
| 20 | I wondered why the never steamed up . |
| 21 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 22 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 23 | The hairs on its furry body are covered with microscopic hooks which pick up the slightly sticky pollen grains as the bee busies around the flower . |
| 24 | He was joint editor of the English Historical Review , 1939–58 ; professor of history in the University of Edinburgh from 1945 till his resignation on health grounds in 1954 ; and in 1951–2 Ford 's lecturer in Oxford , delivering the lectures which became probably the most widely known of his books , King George III and the Politicians ( 1953 ) . |
| 25 | His wide experience , combined with great technical and organizing abilities , enabled him to achieve improved efficiency in the railway workshops , which became all the more necessary when during the war tank , gun , and aircraft production and repair were added to their activities . |
| 26 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 27 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
| 28 | The package tour is particularly appropriate to the personality traits of compliance and sociability which make up the typically British temperament . |
| 29 | He suggested that cattle grazing in the ideal landscape should be any other colour than black and white , ‘ which make together the most inharmonious of all mixtures ’ . |
| 30 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |