Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I 've got better copies of the blank B one , but the handout is getting rather Right so if we 're looking at , we 'll complete the B one .
2 Mark them down with your knife down the back down here , you know , right down so as you had a mark .
3 She thought she would have to hold on extremely tightly if they were to go any faster , but she thought it was a thrilling , intoxicating sensation to be borne along like this .
4 ‘ What a lot of questions , ’ he said coldly , and put her out of his path rather less gently than he intended .
5 It is usual to grow on the cuttings for a year so that the stock stems become somewhat thicker than a pencil but rather less so than your little finger .
6 He would n't tell me what was going on down there because he did n't want to worry me as far as the safety conditions at that particular mine .
7 The situation is a little better today than it was when Barbara Wootton wrote these words fifteen years ago in Social Science and Social Pathology .
8 ‘ Things are a little better now than they were .
9 But it is also noticeable that Mackenzie wrote a much less dramatized description of his grandmother , ‘ a weird old lady ’ with penetrating eyes and a low voice ’ , who had only fallen a little less severely than her ex-husband , living as landlady in a poor alley with ‘ an old servant companion ’ in a house furnished with antiques .
10 For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing .
11 But Miss Philimore seems to think she 's all right so long as she 's watched , and it would save me having to look for someone else . ’
12 ‘ Papa says it 's all right so long as there are other people around . ’
13 To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers .
14 " Amabel , there 'll be nobody in Frizingley to touch you , " said John-William Dallam , sitting down rather heavily since he had run upstairs a little too quickly at her call and did not want her to see how easily , these days , he could lose his breath .
15 And Clara , overcome by the wonderful , felicitous acceptability of his offer , an offer so familiar to her , so marvellously manageable , trembled only most slightly as she said , staring down at the limp arrangements of her hands , " Oui , surement . "
16 They must go in right away if they are to bloom for Christmas .
17 Young Gareth did n't want them to give up , they said , but Mr Vickers senior told him you 'd be all right even if you had got lost .
18 It 'll be all right soon as he gets it . ’
19 It 'll be all right again when she 's gone . ’
20 ‘ Will you be all right here if I go and stretch my legs for a while ? ’
21 All right now before we do any more dates put your hands down and we 'll have a few more birthday dates in a bit .
22 His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] .
23 No doubt you tried the same thing with him — implying that we 'd got along rather better than we ought to have ? ’
24 This example of practical remembrance is paralleled in our other welfare facilities — at Sussexdown and Richard Peack House and the Eagle Lodges — and perhaps most importantly as we reach out through our Honorary Welfare Officers and out members to find and to help individuals in need .
25 Such a view would be far too simplistic for a number of reasons , but perhaps most clearly because there is indeed a powerful and growing critique of professionals in our society — and a critique which is well founded !
26 If you wait long enough then when it finishes this large task everything will work as normal .
27 Hence , the emphasis of our work which , broadly speaking , is concerned with helping either organizations , by which I mean galleries and arts centres , or individuals , in other words artists , craftsmen , photographers , and is increasingly directed to the former in the belief that if we can help them , these centres and galleries , towards adequate levels of staffing and expertise , they in their turn , and much less artificially than we , will be able to help the individual artist .
28 If your crops fail , or grow much less prolifically than your neighbour 's , then it is due to witchcraft .
29 First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home .
30 In essence , he argues , certain forms of conduct which were once forbidden are now allowed , and are regulated much less formally than they once were .
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