Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Diana 's father , who already had a reputation locally for organizing splendid fireworks ' displays on Guy Fawkes Night , laid on a wonderful party for her seventh birthday .
2 Well there was erm during the eighties , for instance , there was a lot of talk going on about having some changes within the constitution .
3 Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest .
4 Well perhaps a few , well-intentioned people like Jesse Helms [ the senator who criticised the NEA vigorously for allocating public funds to pornographic and blasphemous art ] might have said these things are disgusting .
5 He was disqualified for leaning on after receiving three warnings in the third round of an absorbing light middleweight semi-final against John Mett of the Phil Thomas School of Boxing .
6 ‘ Thank you so much for getting those books for me . ’
7 The help facility is very useful , not only for training new users , but also for infrequent users who suddenly find that they have to take over urgent work at short notice .
8 However , such examples indicate that socialization involving prolonged interaction with adults is essential not only for fitting new members into society but also to the process of actually becoming human .
9 Basically an unremarkable set of Regency terrace houses , it was notable only for having 350 windows .
10 Sand-clocks proved suitable only for measuring short periods .
11 So basically for drawing all designs that are to be in a single colour , relying on texture for their effect , I use the Fancy Patterns option .
12 This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play .
13 On the other hand , though , we do in society have erm all sorts of erm apparatuses and institutions , not necessarily for reconciling different evaluations , but for co-ordinating them I would say .
14 Leader Peter Perkins said : ‘ I 'm all for keeping historical buildings .
15 Angela helps me with this task in between proofreading first drafts , checking names and collating and typing the Amicus News , Intimations and Exam Successes sections .
16 Do n't be tempted to practise specific exercises in between doing other jobs or to demonstrate a particularly good exercise to a friend .
17 This is usually done by sliding , especially for covering short distances , whether in attack or defence .
18 Faldo made four birdies but spend most of the day tapping in after leaving first putts short .
19 He once ran a marathon for training , but only after running 15 miles to get to the start and ‘ warm up ’ .
20 Only after describing all rooms would they then proceed to detail their contents .
21 Milk quotas imposed on dairy farmers have now stabilised , but only after putting many farmers out of business .
22 Bayfield and England captain Will Carling are playing only after making near-miraculous recoveries from injuries against Otago in Dunedin last weekend .
23 Milan , inevitably , are strong favourites to retain the title they won last season , especially after signing new stars Papin and Lentini .
24 Philip cast one glance at him , observed the signs , and thought better of making any demands on him .
25 In recent weeks Walesa had launched bitter attacks on the government , accusing it of delaying economic and political reform ( and especially of retaining former communists in the Cabinet ) and of making workers bear the brunt of the current economic austerity plan .
26 Hinting perhaps of bringing subtle pressures to bear , Watkins reminds us that SunSoft has at least 1,000 engineers working full-time on its Unix implementation , many more than USL has in its entire organisation .
27 As well as working with the elderly person , it will be important to work with family members , so that the impact of recent changes is recognised throughout the family system , and all are engaged in working together towards accommodating those changes and losses .
28 In contrast , the practice of storing all the crops in barns and so of erecting large buildings , continued well into the nineteenth century in the south of England and East Anglia .
29 Building up relationships was very much like collecting little islands — you jumped from one to another to another to another — and if you were lucky you eventually had a network .
30 To explore Regency England in her company is much like taking Rural Rides with Cobbett a decade later , not least because they both detect in the details of domestic building and furnishing indications of much more comprehensive change .
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