Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 2 | ‘ They have all given me a tremendous amount of help , and I know that any help or guidance I want in the future will be there . |
| 3 | But it is that same obstinacy or , put another way , determination to win , that has not only made him a successful captain , but also into one of the most feared batsmen in the world . |
| 4 | Over the years he had not only made himself a small fortune , but in the process gained something of a respectable reputation . |
| 5 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 6 | Would Sue ( she hardly knew her , after all , had only met her a few minutes ago ) really let her share the little bubble of love that sealed her and Pete up together and away from the rest of the world ? |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd only had it a short time but it was very tame and friendly . |
| 8 | Now this P H test I 've only had it a few seconds and already look what it 's done to the paper . |
| 9 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 10 | Perhaps if I move on I think we 've perhaps got one a little bit bigger . |
| 11 | I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’ |
| 12 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 13 | You 're just from the YTS. — You 've only known her a few weeks . |
| 14 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The authorities have only allowed me a little time with you . |
| 16 | The argument was both flattering and convenient — so convenient that the middle classes were inclined to take it over from the aristocrats ( who had long fancied themselves a superior race ) for internal as well as international purposes : the poor were poor because they were biologically inferior and conversely , if citizens belonged to ‘ lower races ’ , it was no wonder that they stayed poor and backward . |
| 17 | He had only kissed her a few times before , yet his taste was as familiar as the beat of his heart beneath her hand as she clutched his shirt . |
| 18 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 19 | It is not generally realised what a tiny percentage of our current dollar bill would be sufficient to buy another 100,000 houses ' worth of dollar timber . |
| 20 | She could have passed by without rumbling the Josephites , or just given them a light pasting and taken their food and fuel . |
| 21 | The bruiser had just given her a growling look . |
| 22 | They 've just given you a first read . |
| 23 | He looked up now as she entered — Freddie had already given her a spare key — and said , pleasantly enough , ‘ Hello , Liza . |
| 24 | Unless she 's completely drunk , blind drunk and I have n't already given her a good seeing to ! |
| 25 | He also played cricket , and had already earned himself a bad reputation by smashing two windows in the village . |
| 26 | In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes . |
| 27 | DAVID Capper , the BBC Radio Ulster reporter with one of the best-known voices on the air , has just clinched himself a fantastic new job . |
| 28 | He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says . |
| 29 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 30 | We got here just in the right season , and I assure you he has already shown himself a great enemy to the feathered tribe , having shot a great many beautiful birds and robbed various others of their nests and eggs . |