Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this deprivation , and despite the fact that the difference in their age was only a year , he survived the early and mid-1930s much better than did MacDonald . |
| 2 | This court , submits Mr. Richards , with impressive citation from those high authorities , should think long and hard before waiving the appellant 's undertaking merely so as to improve C.N.L. 's position in their libel action . |
| 3 | On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah . |
| 4 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 5 | " From this resolution of the Presbytery Mr Pearson asked to leave the chair , which was granted , to enter his dissent so far as regards Mr Charles McNeill . " |
| 6 | The couple went so far as to have Chris Nixon , one of the best unit publicists in the business , fired . |
| 7 | Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’ |
| 8 | Hilaire Belloc , often ambivalent towards the Jewish people , went so far as to condemn Chesterton 's ethnic slurs . |
| 9 | He even went so far as to imprison Rodrigo 's wife Ximena , and his children ; and though he soon released them he refused to listen to El Cid 's demand to settle his innocence by right of combat . |
| 10 | Julie Ride , of Walthamstow , London , said as she landed at Heathrow airport after a five-day visit to the Iraqi capital : ‘ The Government has got to get its act together now and get Paul and Michael out . ’ |
| 11 | We now try to duplicate for polynomials some of the basic definitions and theorems set down earlier when investigating Z. We shall find out that , despite the obvious differences in appearance between the elements of Z and those of Q[x] , the underlying structures of these two systems are quite similar . |
| 12 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 13 | ( During a lunch given in his honour by the British in the island , the wife of one of the wine-shippers bit her tongue rather painfully and asked Lloyd George if he ever did that . |
| 14 | Perkin had not long before seen Olympia lying dead at Nolan 's feet . |
| 15 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 16 | Downton and Emburey kept him company for a while , and when number eleven Dilley joined him he had 69 ; when Dilley was out for 2 next morning Willey had completed his century , a splendid 102 not out that took England to 271 , Croft finishing with 6 for 74 . |
| 17 | He walked away then and left Artemis trying to puzzle out what her father meant by putting her mother in the past tense . |
| 18 | Jimmy pulled away again and joined Gilbert and Frye at the windows . |
| 19 | Mahmoud saw something further on and touched Owen 's arm . |
| 20 | In so doing he combined the religious culture of Lérins and the rhetorical culture of Late Antiquity more successfully than had Sidonius . |
| 21 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 22 | Maybe more so than say Sandwick and I find like Rendal folk you could tell some of them even yet . |
| 23 | I thought it was Annie , and we 'd go home together and see Marie and they 'd both be proud of me and we could sit in front of the Christmas tree together and guess what the wrapped up presents were , and eat mince pies and all that . |
| 24 | He told a key meeting in Dunkirk at the end of August : ‘ You must find the nerve to ask for a better treaty ; one that hands less power to Brussels , controls bureaucracy more stringently and leaves France her autonomy in foreign and monetary policy . ’ |
| 25 | Those who travelled went further still and discovered Greece , but it too is ‘ classical ’ and altered the decoration of Palladian houses rather than their design . |
| 26 | We begin to realize more deeply that knowing God and knowing ourselves is a single process . |
| 27 | This idea had a great influence upon the thinking of Schopenhauer who followed up its implications more thoroughly than did Kant. 9 . |
| 28 | I came home later and found Kelly shaken . |
| 29 | Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech . |
| 30 | They too pandered to protectionist sentiment — though more cautiously than do Bill Clinton and Mickey Kantor . |