Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be easier said than done but if you have a clear idea of the purpose of the meeting and have prepared a thorough list of everything you want to know then you must stick to your guns and carry on relentlessly until you have worked your way through it . |
| 2 | On the eighteenth of June attended this meeting erm perhaps this on rather than you jotting down |
| 3 | This example of practical remembrance is paralleled in our other welfare facilities — at Sussexdown and Richard Peack House and the Eagle Lodges — and perhaps most importantly as we reach out through our Honorary Welfare Officers and out members to find and to help individuals in need . |
| 4 | But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale . |
| 5 | Whatever one 's opinion , he has missed remarkably little considering he has had to cope with such an endless barrage of fast bowling . |
| 6 | His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | He moved on slowly until he reached one of the roads into the city . |
| 8 | So it 's seven twelfths altogether so if we add a third to a quarter |
| 9 | Rather less because we 've just taken some money out of the budget . |
| 10 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 11 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 12 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 13 | Although this is a legal thing to do in Texas , an uproar over the shameless display of influence-peddling prompted most of the recipients to return the money ( mostly only after they had cashed the cheques ) . |
| 14 | Ron was virtually dead physiologically before he achieved a consistent recognition of the severity of his state . |
| 15 | Even then , habit and a stubborn trust that our audience spied upon us from behind then nearest bush , forced our bodies to blunder on long after they had emptied of meaning , until like runaway carts they dragged to a halt . |
| 16 | ‘ My weak spots are my right knee and lower back , but I wo n't let on much because I like to make out I am indestructible . ’ |
| 17 | By canne , which could mean ‘ cane ’ in the English senses of a hollow reed or a light walking-stick , Antoine implies something rather long unless he uses the word wholly jokingly . |
| 18 | He got up and came to squat next to her , flipping through the pages rather impatiently until he stopped suddenly . |
| 19 | It was now that a more marked difference from the Parisians showed itself in their work , most obviously when they laid hands on Sermisy or Janequin for their own purposes . |
| 20 | Half an hour later , she felt a little better although she had n't decided what to do . |
| 21 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 22 | ‘ I know Devlin a little better than he imagines and I was not at all fooled about this easy assignment of yours . ’ |
| 23 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 24 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
| 25 | On the negatives there was the er resumption of a S S A P twenty four charge for U K pensions , a little less than we expected , we had a strong revaluation in mid-year , the incremental redundancy costs that Frank has already touched upon and er the er dis er the discontinued profits not in ninety two . |
| 26 | By the next Prime Minister 's Questions on Thursday she knew the policy rather better than we did . |
| 27 | Devise your method and then tell your story , which inevitably will make the mystery seem rather better than it has to be , because all locked rooms are variants of a small number of simple devices , most of which are ways of making such rooms unlocked all along . |
| 28 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 29 | She had evidently , Ronni thought , slept rather better than she had . |
| 30 | Pammy Jane knows Charles rather better than she does Princess Diana . |