Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually made good our escape to Braemar , where we sat miserably in the pub , lamenting the fact that our dry clothes were a 200 mile bus and train journey away in Aviemore . |
| 2 | ‘ Doctor , I 'll gladly answer all your questions , if you 'll just answer one of mine . ’ |
| 3 | Moreover , according to the prevailing values of this system , any feminist housewife who successfully made good her claim to be paid a wage for her domestic chores would be reducing her status to that of a servant . |
| 4 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 5 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 6 | If you are silly enough to categorize all your faults for the interviewer you will surely already have shown yourself as unsuitable for the job in many other ways . |
| 7 | Also , the insurers will not necessarily cover all your customers and those that they do cover may only be covered up to a certain amount . |
| 8 | ‘ Contemn the world' ’ ( Saith he ) ‘ and count all that is in it vanity and toys ; this only covet all thy life long ; be not over-solicitous in anything , but with a well-composed and contented estate to enjoy thyself , and above all things to be merry . ' ’ |
| 9 | If so make sure your telephone call is an organized one ( see p. 18 above ) . |
| 10 | That 's always been the intention , so make sure your equipment is blocking and recording efficiently . ’ |
| 11 | You must be able to take casualties so make sure your units are big enough to take a serious hit without depleting their effectiveness . |
| 12 | So make all your formulae copyable left and right and up and down . |
| 13 | Leviticus was passing police headquarters in Johannesburg one day , walking along the pavement after a shopping expedition , when a crazed , homicidal black threw himself , unconscious , from the top storey and apparently ripped all his fingernails out on the way down . |
| 14 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 15 | Having resolved this dispute he became involved in long battles over his rights and tithes from the manors , for in 1256 , he is complaining that his rents and profits were so small , scarcely amounting to forty marks a year , being only enough to meet half his expenses . |
| 16 | Armed with walkie-talkies so we could trail her progress at a distance , we waited until noon when she nervously approached and then eagerly ate all her dinner , with the added sedatives . |
| 17 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 18 | Offspring A looks at it differently , because offspring A says , my sibling B has only got half my genes , therefore I will make sacrifices for B , wherever B R and greater than C as we saw . |
| 19 | I mean would you like to , I mean dad works from home does n't he , he has link ups with London but he 's basically got all his equipment at home . |
| 20 | It is perhaps unfair but definitely wise to say that even direct counterparts on Macintosh and PC do not necessarily transfer all their formats from one system to another . |
| 21 | His fundamental mistake was not only to buy all his planes , but to buy them only on borrowed money . |
| 22 | Started in 1854 Woodchester Mansion was the brainchild of a 21 year old architect who apparently spent all his patron 's money . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union announced on Nov. 5 that it would henceforth drop all its objections to " familiarization " overflights of its territory by Western surveillance aircraft conducting inspections in accordance with international disarmament agreements . |
| 24 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 25 | He also reiterated the main themes of his primary campaign , and in so doing maintained his reputation for providing the most detailed policy statements of any of the presidential candidates . |
| 26 | He says that I might not need to get it , right , because , if , he can only tell half my blood . |
| 27 | By contrast , a tutorial group ( or seminar ) should be small enough to allow all its members to participate fully in the discussion . |
| 28 | One man came in took all his clothes off , tried on a load of things and walked out in them . |
| 29 | After six months you would only get half your salary so this would then go down to fifteen thousand . |
| 30 | All you have to do is gently move all your joints , several times , one after the other ; carefully stretch and then tense your muscles ; breathe deeply , but not too deeply , and invigorate your body by massaging it with your hands , someone else 's hands or a rough towel . |