Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
| 2 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's not a carpenter , dear , he 's an architect , and a highly respected one at that . |
| 4 | But the average driving school car , the average car that the person learns to drive in has none of these things at all . |
| 5 | " Yes , we 'd better do something about that . " |
| 6 | But this Sunday they 've all got something in common — it 's Father 's Day , the one day of the year when they can expect to be thoroughly pampered and spoiled by the rest of the family for a change . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll write him stating , ‘ Since you obviously know nothing about English literature , we expect you never to quote from it again' . ’ |
| 8 | She walked on and on , imagining herself utterly alone wearing nothing at all . |
| 9 | Do you think I 'd be stupid enough to do something like that in full view of everyone ? |
| 10 | Arrau Philips is indomitable , searching , eloquent , if perhaps lacking something in sheer abandonment . |
| 11 | Public and private sector schemes together covered one in eight workers in 1936 , and one in three by 1956 . |
| 12 | Pakistan and Afghanistan together produce something like 1,200 tons of hashish a year . |
| 13 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 14 | Er I would also point out that erm even though there was a respectable response to the public consultation exercise , I think the number of respondents in total only represented something like seventeen percent of the number of households in the Harrogate and Knaresborough area . |
| 15 | if we 're talking about going to the you can go down to play the course there , you 'd only get one round played . |
| 16 | Better get something in that 's stronger than that Dave . |
| 17 | This Fraxillian city apparently had none of those things , except objects that by a stretch definition could have been called buildings . |
| 18 | Local Dyslexia Associations are also full of information , and there are by now quite a lot of books which have been published which are — both for parents and teachers — which are veyr easy to follow and do n't necessarily involve one in many evenings and weekends of cudgelling the brain . |
| 19 | and it only had one over all the speaker |
| 20 | ‘ The centres are so overstretched and under-funded that some can only help one in 10 debtors , or less ’ , it said . |
| 21 | In 1987 , 9.3 per cent of those who divorced had only lasted one to two years of marriage ; 28.6 per cent of those divorced did so after five to nine years of marriage . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not bringing anyone at all and , as to the seat , I 'll pay for mine as soon as I see you . ’ |
| 23 | Whilst LIFESPAN will not modify anything in this directory except its own files , the upgrade instructions may assume that only LIFESPAN files are to be found here . |
| 24 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 25 | She can easily swallow one in one go , so mealtimes do n't last long . |
| 26 | Britain was soon devoting something like half its national product to the war , a massive shift of resources , unthinkable in peacetime . |
| 27 | Now from my observations of these debates I 've not heard anybody on this council saying council debates that there is no role for this local authority or any other local authority there is no role for them in the provision of residential care or any extension of residential care because some of our residential care is getting very , very close to providing a degree of nursing care . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've not heard anything about this . ’ |
| 29 | I had not heard anything about these guys . |
| 30 | If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ? |