Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people are rarely honoured in their lifetime . |
| 2 | Throughout his career he seemed to be around when it happened but the finger of accusation rarely pointed in his direction . |
| 3 | ‘ Being so close to Merseyside is a disadvantage , because a lot of Liverpool lads would rather stay in their area where there 's such a good standard than travel into Wales . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Really I 'd rather stay in my room . ’ |
| 5 | Among other foundations , Queen Margaret ( whose efforts on behalf of the Church were duly recognized in her canonization ) set up her own private chapel on the Castle Rock in Edinburgh , now the oldest surviving building in the city . |
| 6 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 7 | Her best hope of surviving it successfully lies in your maturity and willingness to act as a temporary crutch for her and as a quiet stabilising influence until she learns how to walk alone and unaided . |
| 8 | Of course , this has been keenly misread in our century . |
| 9 | He alleged that Whitefoot had literally spat in his eye . |
| 10 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |
| 11 | You are probably much better placed in your home town or nearest city . |
| 12 | Unionists had a majority in Lloyd George 's war cabinet , but were little better placed in his government as a whole . |
| 13 | Many portraits of Wordsworth and Coleridge exist , though unfortunately Dorothy was only painted in her dotage . |
| 14 | Locke does not mean , though , that ideas are necessarily received in their simplicity : complexes can be got directly from experience , and do not always actually have to be built up from experienced simples . |
| 15 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 16 | We need a programme that involves all five permanent members of the Security Council and those Russian republics to which the Secretary of State rightly referred in his opening remarks . |
| 17 | They were perhaps justified in their anger at the relatively low priority accorded to older people . |
| 18 | The emotional metamorphosis is pointedly highlighted in his correspondence with Henriette ( Rirette ) Alphen , his future wife and privileged companion . |
| 19 | Moreover , poems produced at Cnut 's behest ( Thorarin Praise-Tongue was paid fifty marks for his Tøgdrápa ) , although obviously biased in his favour , can imply much about the ways in which he wanted to be seen . |
| 20 | But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority , and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment . |
| 21 | Yet such groups are extremely limited in their scope . |
| 22 | Acts , by comparison , although extremely biased in its point of view , nevertheless reflects an endeavour to preserve an historical record , an account of ‘ what actually happened ’ in its historical context . |
| 23 | Rather than fall , she clung to my arm — a gesture so trusting in its way as to melt the remains of my anger . |
| 24 | It can be argued that this confinement to land-use issues was the basic problem with structure planning and goes far to explain why the exercise has in practice proved so limited in its impact , but in this chapter the focus is precisely on the politics of land use , and structure plan intentions are of considerable importance . |
| 25 | If ‘ science ’ ( the relativist might well be inclined to use quotation marks ) is highly regarded in our society , then this is to be understood by analysing our society , and not simply by analysing the nature of science . |
| 26 | One can say only a possible exception since Mustakimzade is extremely guarded in his treatment of Hizir Bey . |
| 27 | As Jan Urban , the head of Civic Forum , pointedly remarks in our interview , it 's a case of ‘ too much velvet in our revolution ’ . |
| 28 | Hun Sen , the prime minister , constantly emphasises in his election campaign that his government is the sole credible safeguard against a return to power by Pol Pot 's men . |
| 29 | In the morality of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588–1679 ) and John Locke ( 1632–1704 ) and the later utilitarians he can only act in his self-interest . |
| 30 | Daisy , having taken a fortnight 's holiday to drive Perdita around in yet another hired car , had never felt so shattered in her life . |