Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been raining heavily — and it was to go on raining heavily for another nine days . |
| 2 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , would you rather stay here in this prison ? |
| 4 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 5 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 6 | Moxon was eventually caught behind for 80 off Allan Warner . |
| 7 | He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’ |
| 8 | Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting . |
| 9 | They are therefore viewed as costs that can not be justifiably carried forward to future periods because they do not represent future benefits or the future benefits are so uncertain as to defy measurement . |
| 10 | Very often the fossil bones may be broken in place by slight earth movements but with the pieces of bone still lined up with each other , only to fall apart during later transport or during excavation . |
| 11 | This may be one reason why fertility recovered somewhat after its initial wartime decline , to reach a peak in 1944 ( 781,478 births ) , unmatched since 1923 , only to fall again in late 1944 and 1945 as mass armies were once again able to operate overseas ( see Registrar-General 1954 ) . |
| 12 | The main Moslem militias had all withdrawn well before this deadline , ( Druse ) Progressive Socialist Party ( PSP ) fighters moving south to their Chouf mountain stronghold , and the rival Shia groups Amal and Hezbollah deploying even further south to the Iqlim al-Tuffah hills and other areas bordering Israel 's self-declared " security zone " . |
| 13 | Last summer Berlin 's streets suddenly became home to thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian refugees , many of them gypsies , who took advantage of easy entry into soon-to-disappear East Germany to gain access to the West . |
| 14 | The field of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination , hitherto consisting only of former Massachusetts senator Paul E. Tsongas and former mayor of Irvine , California , Larry Agran , grew substantially in September . |
| 15 | There are many who will never forget that sad time but now the East Lindsey coastline has a happy atmosphere ; sometimes throbbing with the joy of summer seaside thrills but more constantly pulsating gently in natural tranquility , . |
| 16 | We were a group of young people who all lived locally in one of the poorest areas on the outskirts of San Salvador . |
| 17 | All processes execute on the local client — not on the central host processor — and version control ensures the dictionary ( list of objects ) is only downloaded once to each client , on the first time of use . |
| 18 | It is very thin and often has deep infoldings and outpouchings so binding together with neighbouring cells . |
| 19 | In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’ |
| 20 | So begins the story of Ragged Dick , or Street Life in New York , Horatio Alger 's first book — the first of 135 tales written in the late 1800s that together sold close to 20 million copies . |
| 21 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 22 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 23 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 24 | Yet it 's flexible enough to pull away in fourth gear from 1000rpm . |
| 25 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 26 | Every year each region 's allocation was merely rolled forward with small additions to the previous year 's spending and extra to meet the current costs of new hospital premises . |
| 27 | The pouch-seat clutched me again as the ship suddenly bounced sideways with another grinding crunch and shriek of stressed metal . |
| 28 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 29 | So steer clear of other kites being flown on single lines . |
| 30 | The 1980s ended with the tabloids ' confidence waning , and with the Sun 's nudes moving to page five , perhaps to slip away for good . |