Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 2 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 3 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 4 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 5 | I only tax mine for six month now then , ay ? |
| 6 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 7 | Then they decided perhaps I did n't have to stay in that one after all , so put me into another single cell , which was equally disgusting . |
| 8 | But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ? |
| 9 | Well he 's only put it on one side . |
| 10 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |
| 11 | They deteriorated with time , and the only way to prolong their life was to store them carefully in airtight containers and only wear them on special occasions . |
| 12 | ‘ So tell me about this Rose Bowl of yours , ’ he said , leaning back and signalling the waiter for another bottle of wine . |
| 13 | ‘ So tell me about this case of yours . ’ |
| 14 | I only fill them in that I know for a fact . |
| 15 | They only tell you about that bit . |
| 16 | Only get her off this estate now , you understand ? |
| 17 | I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months . |
| 18 | As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it . |
| 19 | If so contact him at 23 , Manor House Farm , Flockton , near Wakefield , West Yorks . |
| 20 | So I thought well I 'm in with a chance , you know , one 's wanted a and this leg repairing so compare it with that no |
| 21 | She did routine office stuff for the rest of the day , and only re-read it at five . |
| 22 | If you need urgent information you are invited to use the following telephone number but , please , only use it between 19.00 and 21.00 on Mondays to Thursdays and only if it is absolutely necessary … |
| 23 | Okay so try it with twelve first of all and then try it with twenty four |
| 24 | So try it like that and swing your mallet too so you wo n't be able to go above hoop three and |
| 25 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 27 | Cheques have to arrive at the registrars by Thursday 10 September so post them by next Tuesday at the earliest . |
| 28 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 29 | Cooks and lawyers need to use words in their own special ways , and so do I in this book . |
| 30 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |