Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 2 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 3 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 4 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 5 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 6 | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world . |
| 7 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 8 | Notice that the right shift truncates the result ; some computers provide a version of arithmetic right shift which adds to the right-hand bit position of the result the value of the last bit shifted out . |
| 9 | See , in America they 're being touted as ( cough , splutter ) ‘ The New Smiths ’ , which presumably has nothing to do with The New Seekers and a lot to do with , ‘ Hey , these guys are grreaat ! ’ |
| 10 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 11 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 12 | Picking her way through the guests , she eventually found him talking to Edward , but when he saw her approaching he left his host and came to meet her . |
| 13 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 14 | He eventually found it sitting on a wall outside a house . |
| 15 | The emergence of the adult within has nothing to do with numerical age . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm just interested to know what goes on beneath that hostile little shell you present to the world , Virginia . |
| 17 | What right has he to comment on the ‘ quality of fans ’ at the Levellers gigs ? |
| 18 | What right has he to comment on the ‘ quality of fans ’ at the Levellers gigs ? |
| 19 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 20 | This is why , after a night of south-easterly winds and rain in spring or in autumn , you can find the islands littered with small birds of many species , all desperately trying to find some food which can replenish the energy reserves sufficiently to enable them to continue on their way as soon as weather allows . |
| 21 | Halfway round he says to Gary , ‘ Do you want to swap caddies ? ’ |
| 22 | The humiliation and jealousy that had surfaced in her did n't abate in the weeks ahead , and the prospect of the friends ' provincial tour together made her behave like a vixen . |
| 23 | He had less than a tenth of the jigsaw puzzle pieces , but even the fragments of a picture he was able to put together made him ache for Anne . |
| 24 | Above all he knew little more about Matthew Glynn than might reasonably appear in his obituary , but he needed to know the man well enough to see him going about his daily life against the background of his home and shop and in the context of his family , friends , and acquaintances . |
| 25 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 26 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 27 | A man buys a razor and shaving cream and later returns saying you have only given him change for £5 instead of £10 . |
| 28 | But only well we would get it buy it in bulk ourselves supplied by er Hamiltons of Glasgow |
| 29 | This keeps the register ‘ live ’ and provides a steady income for the UKCC , so helping it to move towards financial independence from government subsidy . |
| 30 | The deictic elements and terms are constantly helping us to sort from possible contexts , helping us to move from symbolic meaning to some kind of reconstructed indexical meaning . |