Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 2 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 3 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 4 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 5 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 6 | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world . |
| 7 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 8 | Picking her way through the guests , she eventually found him talking to Edward , but when he saw her approaching he left his host and came to meet her . |
| 9 | He eventually found it sitting on a wall outside a house . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just interested to know what goes on beneath that hostile little shell you present to the world , Virginia . |
| 11 | What right has he to comment on the ‘ quality of fans ’ at the Levellers gigs ? |
| 12 | What right has he to comment on the ‘ quality of fans ’ at the Levellers gigs ? |
| 13 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 14 | This is why , after a night of south-easterly winds and rain in spring or in autumn , you can find the islands littered with small birds of many species , all desperately trying to find some food which can replenish the energy reserves sufficiently to enable them to continue on their way as soon as weather allows . |
| 15 | Halfway round he says to Gary , ‘ Do you want to swap caddies ? ’ |
| 16 | The humiliation and jealousy that had surfaced in her did n't abate in the weeks ahead , and the prospect of the friends ' provincial tour together made her behave like a vixen . |
| 17 | He had less than a tenth of the jigsaw puzzle pieces , but even the fragments of a picture he was able to put together made him ache for Anne . |
| 18 | Above all he knew little more about Matthew Glynn than might reasonably appear in his obituary , but he needed to know the man well enough to see him going about his daily life against the background of his home and shop and in the context of his family , friends , and acquaintances . |
| 19 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 20 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 21 | A man buys a razor and shaving cream and later returns saying you have only given him change for £5 instead of £10 . |
| 22 | This keeps the register ‘ live ’ and provides a steady income for the UKCC , so helping it to move towards financial independence from government subsidy . |
| 23 | The deictic elements and terms are constantly helping us to sort from possible contexts , helping us to move from symbolic meaning to some kind of reconstructed indexical meaning . |
| 24 | So round I went to Daddy 's flat . ’ |
| 25 | For many years afterwards I was naturally very wary of any dog and , although I soon learnt not to run away , as this would only make them run after me , I never willingly approached them . |
| 26 | ‘ William can be as stubborn as the devil when he chooses , and the sight of a soldier will only make him dig in his heels further . |
| 27 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 28 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 29 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 30 | ‘ Only make it sound as if you really believe it this time . ’ |