Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued as if she had n't spoken , his voice dropping to a level of intimacy that suddenly made it feel as though they were alone , not being listened to by thousands of people . |
| 2 | A series of 10 minute routines will not only make you look and feel in better shape but supplement your fitness . |
| 3 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 4 | So I just get it cos I 've only heard you say that before I do n't actually really know what it meant . |
| 5 | The handbrake was extensively used to cope with icy conditions on what seemed to be never-ending hairpins and headlights in the distance changing direction constantly made us wonder whether the word insanity had taken on a new meaning [ going up and down snowy mountains in a 30-year-old car ] . |
| 6 | So let us hope that the association is long and fruitful . |
| 7 | There are no natural boundaries between property price regions , so let us assume that one would use the standard regions — the south-east , the east midlands , the west midlands and so on . |
| 8 | The sentence has 28 characters in it , so let us assume that the monkey has a series of discrete " tries ' , each consisting of 28 bashes at the keyboard . |
| 9 | ‘ But we must try and see them — if only to let them know that we 're here , in the States , and that they have no need to worry about Emma and Sophie . ’ |
| 10 | Actually , I guess I would n't want to tell it to anybody , not so much because I 'm ashamed ( I tell myself ) as because it 's private ; one last thing I can hide that 's between me and Andy only , so letting me feel that there is one thing at least in which I 've not betrayed him utterly . |
| 11 | Anything which makes rigging and de-rigging more difficult increases the risk of someone getting tired of holding up a wing-tip and so letting it droop or even drop . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah well , in that case , I 'd better let you know that I 've asked Paul Spence to do some of the revision classes for your part of the course . ’ |
| 13 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 14 | Not only did I discover that all these tender little messages you keep sending me were probably written weeks in advance , but I also discovered just how many other women I share that privilege with . |
| 15 | Not only did he build and restore churches and monasteries , but also he repaired the city walls ; he corresponded with Caesarius of Clermont about laying underground water-pipes , and he was responsible for severing road-communications with the south to prevent the spread of plague . |
| 16 | In 1785 alone , not only did he survey and engrave the series of charts mentioned above , but he also found time to make a series of estate plans for Patrick Kerr of Abbotrule ( which Kerr failed to pay for ) , to survey a line for a canal from the Forth to the Clyde for Robert Whitworth , and to engrave several plans for the court of session in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | It is not surprising , therefore , that not only did he consider that he alone would set the pace , but also that the pace he chose to set was that of a dilatory gastropod . |
| 18 | Well our M O T guy , fair do you know and he 'll say so and so wants doing , can you take it away and do it ? |
| 19 | ‘ So do we accept that she did merely close it later ? |
| 20 | So do I divide that by five and then times it by ten ? |
| 21 | So do you mean that your husband was able to continue with this a bit as well as working for ? |
| 22 | So do you think that we could put our differences aside for just one evening ? |
| 23 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 24 | So do you think that the would happen as soon as the coffin got to the house ? |
| 25 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
| 26 | So do you feel that erm I mean I know that you 've been here twenty one years , and do you think women are more important or less important in the factory than they were ? |
| 27 | and the money for your daughter in the future so do you feel that it 's been of some benefit to you today to have had this discussion ? |
| 28 | So do you mind if we do n't say anything more about it ? ’ |
| 29 | Not only do I care but the Government are meeting their obligations and providing procurement orders to ensure that our forces have the equipment that they need . |
| 30 | Not only do I suppose that the desk in my study exists when neither I nor anyone else is there to perceive it , I suppose that I , and everyone else , can perceive the same desk . |