Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he did eat any food he would either chew very slowly or just hold it in his mouth . |
| 2 | But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once . |
| 3 | Shallow or superficial learning — like learning a name , address and telephone number that you promptly forget unless you write them down or consciously commit them to memory or use them habitually . |
| 4 | ‘ So where exactly do I fit into all this ? ’ |
| 5 | Did he zip them together or just hand her one ? |
| 6 | I could see him thumb through several papers before returning to the counter with a single sheet ; he made no attempt to invite me in or even to offer me a chair . |
| 7 | But perhaps that only encouraged them to move faster elsewhere . ’ |
| 8 | So that just gives you some idea and it 's up to your parents if they want to . |
| 9 | So that probably makes it but I say without having me own book to check it I ca n't |
| 10 | If all this leads the controlling group to scream for more money from the Government , and it will inevitably , I suggest they start using the money they have more sensibly and not waste it on their more extravagant schemes . |
| 11 | It opens with the eponymous party in progress ; Edward Chamberlayne is the sole host since his wife , Lavinia , has suddenly and unaccountably left him . |
| 12 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |
| 13 | Well I said that does n't excuse the thing of , of tipping all over and putting it inside and not shifting it . |
| 14 | But how many people do you know who smile broadly at you , and speak in a calm and controlled manner , when all along they are fuming inside and never show it ? |
| 15 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 16 | He by no means dismisses the claims of these poets , but gently and respectfully sets them aside — ‘ I do not feel that they have much part in this essay . |
| 17 | She has been known to stop the traffic on one of her book-signing sessions , a situation which eventually required the police to gently and good-humouredly sort it out . |
| 18 | The letters are arriving so thank you very much and please keep them coming . |
| 19 | Music has always had a vital role in Christian worship , and the main services on a Sunday naturally and necessarily include it . |
| 20 | ‘ I mean , how was I to know you were n't a sex-mad pervert who 'd broken in and hideously raped you before coming after me ? ’ |
| 21 | Mum was given a choice : either to stay in the caravan they were living in and not have me home , or move into a flat so I could live with them . |
| 22 | ‘ Good idea , ’ Dad replied with a twinkle in his eye : he knew why they were there because he went out and fetched them in and later took them back himself . |
| 23 | For someone like Nigel who 's got all the tools it it 'd be a a it 's not a job you can come in and just do it cos you have to take a bit off clean it |
| 24 | But after Easter you just wan na hand it in and just sod it . |
| 25 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 26 | George fumbled out the little pinhole torch and watched as Maxim delicately smeared a film of shoe polish on the end of his key then probed ag in and immediately withdrew it to study the marks on the polish . |
| 27 | When Wendy 's father died of lung cancer , he asked Rhoda to move in and presently got it together to marry her , thus putting a stop to Wendy 's sudden plan to abandon Dev and move back in with Ken . |
| 28 | Of the British-born Black artists , who went to art school , how did they get in and how did they get on ? |
| 29 | He saw her safely checked in and then left her , his last words calculated to wound . |
| 30 | The hostel took him in and then offered him a room in a shared house . |