Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradl has a 150-strong fan club , who most importantly supported him in the early stages of his career . |
| 2 | Right so write it as about here write it as three times seventeen , minus two . |
| 3 | No one of the theories we have set down is all wrong , any more than any one perspective is all right so providing us with a single key to " explain " British politics . |
| 4 | In effect , since socialisation is present as part of all social relationships , whether the parties to the relationship are aware of it or not , it is clear that it is a much more subtle , complex and pervasive process than it might at first appear and that we can only properly understand it as an aspect of all human activity . |
| 5 | He was shifting in her mind suddenly , stepping out of the shadows she had so forcibly pushed him into in self-defence , and she realised her attraction to him was more than just physical . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're all right to take me to the pictures , ’ she said . |
| 7 | All these systems dealt with the problem of how to dispose of stock when , as Day 's library so elegantly put it on the slip , ‘ the first demand for the book has abated ’ . |
| 8 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 9 | Nothing had been done to prettify the site as at Sizewell , on the Suffolk coast , or to produce the pleasantly laid-out grounds of smooth lawn , flowering trees and shrubs which so agreeably impressed him on his periodic visits to Winfrith in Dorset . |
| 10 | Why he never troubled to publish his knowledge , I do not know , except that he was an aristocrat , and so perhaps considered it beneath him to publish . |
| 11 | These are the new rate books , we 've literally only had them through this week . |
| 12 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 13 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 14 | But she was in such a hurry that she just could n't stay for long enough to help me with breastfeeding Stephen . |
| 15 | Although the butler had never said or intimated anything untoward , Michael had grown up with prejudice long enough to recognize it for what it was . |
| 16 | In a flash of inspiration , they replaced the oil with mashed bananas , which lubricated the engine just long enough to get them to civilisation . |
| 17 | As Henry James so memorably put it in his great essay , ‘ The Art of Fiction ’ , ‘ Experience is never limited , and it is never complete … |
| 18 | The Duc de Choiseul did not expect to occupy England , much less incorporate it in Louis XV 's empire , but merely to distract his enemy from further conquests overseas and encourage an early peace . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 20 | Her mother so much wanted her to be doing something prestigious , Caro thought bitterly , something she could boast about to her woolshop cronies , after all that dreadful ‘ grubbing about in the park ’ . |
| 21 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 22 | Aye , I think " till do , but the pleasure of considering I shall so entirely have her in my power is not a little disturbed by reflecting how terribly the poor creature will be shocked at finding that innocence betrayed she has so long and worthily defended . |
| 23 | For her sake , you will smile and pretend to be the sweet , charming young woman she so foolishly believes you to be . ’ |
| 24 | These are waters which do not , as a rule , produce big bream , for with so many mouths to share the available food there is only enough to maintain them at a low body weight . |
| 25 | No , perhaps only enough to get her to Boston and a little on top . |
| 26 | Andrew Jean on top , Cheeks squealing , So Long rocking her to a cataclysmax . |
| 27 | With that homely air of perplexed affection that had so long endeared her to Louisa 's heart , she gave voice to a remaining consideration . |
| 28 | Not that he breathed a word of this to any of the others ; it was enough just to drink it in himself , sharing his secret with the old farmer . |
| 29 | He basically just told me to be myself . |
| 30 | So just write it as six times ten or ten times six . |