Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you secretly enjoy getting in my hair ? ’ |
| 2 | If her treatise was to fulfil the expectations raised by its prologue , she must make this difficult passage now — though it was , at times , an agony merely to remain seated at her desk . |
| 3 | Better to continue to suffer under its domination and its oppression than gain economic power through blood and slaughter . |
| 4 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 5 | I go to night schools and force myself to mix , but I only tend to socialise with my present or former care assistants , former Le Court friends and a few other people . |
| 6 | It can be constantly modified according to its effect and thus the social function dominates the logical . |
| 7 | She made him take tap classes to loosen his ankles and gave him daily exercises to do under her assistant 's instruction . |
| 8 | The proliferation of this literature has so simplified going into our wilderness areas that readers are literally taken by the hand . |
| 9 | Rosemary apparently has to cope with her husband 's anxiety that she could only be cured by becoming more ‘ assertive ’ . |
| 10 | It has provided an advice service to staff and students , conducted research and published information , but perhaps most of all has provided through its regional and local groups , and national conferences , an opportunity for teaching staff and others to meet together on a regular basis to share ideas and experience . |
| 11 | The student went on to say that , though he had received help for a specific question , he had not obtained enough understanding to cope with his future library problems . |
| 12 | But , I suppose you , only want to know about my wife . ’ |
| 13 | In short , the older generation not only has given by its paid and unpaid labour in the past ; it continues to give as well as take in the present . |
| 14 | A neat passage of midfield play involving Russell , Cunningham and Tony Shepherd end with Davidson making an incisive run ; as Glens defenders waited for a pass the little full-back suddenly let fly with his right foot , squeezing the ball past Grace . |
| 15 | Furthermore , if authenticity is to be defined as natural language behaviour ( and it is hard to see how else it might be defined ) there is also the difficulty that learners will naturally incline to draw on their own language in any situation that calls for uncontrived linguistic communication . |
| 16 | My problem , therefore , would perhaps appear to lie with my speakers , but the G-K cost a fortune so I would be surprised if it were at fault . |
| 17 | There he attempted to persuade the counts Ramon and Berenguer to aid him in taking Saragossa , a key fortress which King Ferdinand had long sought to bring under his sway . |
| 18 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 19 | Hence we do not need to argue that the judiciary are in any sense part of a gigantic conspiracy ; they merely act according to their beliefs which inevitably reflect their class interests . |
| 20 | By its Contract with you ILG Travel Limited does not enter into an Agreement for carriage by air but only undertakes to reserve on your behalf accommodation on board an aircraft operated by one or other of the airlines mentioned in this brochure or such other airline as may be substituted . |
| 21 | Companies are far better equipped to compete with their international rivals than they were ten years ago ’ . |
| 22 | They think that you 've only got to feed in your data and out pops an Identikit of sonny complete with prints , collar-size and taste in pop music . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ … you 've only got to look at his star sign . ’ |
| 24 | Why on earth should he want to , they 're only going to sell for his own work if he does n't . |
| 25 | She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache . |
| 26 | Leeds , having apparently got rid of their one bad apple in the week , now suspect the whole orchard might be contaminated . |
| 27 | They had all used vomiting as their main method of weight control . |
| 28 | Look out for — Approved , Commended or Highly Commended appearing on our signs . |
| 29 | He only joined the drama group because the best chicks were in plays ; he did n't especially like dancing in his mid-teens because he had become too fat ; sports interested him , and he was fanatical about basketball . |
| 30 | ‘ I also think you 'd be better employed looking after your fiancée instead of bullying me . ’ |