Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It spends heavily on its undercover services and Britain is the country whose policies most vitally affect it .
2 This involves using a filtration process which basically makes the solid content of the milk much higher allowing it to set better , making it smooth , thick and above all , consistent .
3 It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ .
4 I went across the course to the stands side to see the horses in the paddock , and then I went up to the very comfy Tribune des Dames , for which the French Racing Authorities so generously send me a badge each year .
5 Our thanks to these , and to all the friends of THE FACE who have given their time and money so generously to help us through this difficult time .
6 With the minor forms so far described it is possible to investigate causes by means of almost full-sized experiments , but the formation of dunes proper involves the usual sort of inferential argument based on field observation commonly employed by geomorphologists .
7 Mozart began work on the music during the autumn of 1780 , and in November the archbishop somewhat grudgingly released him to complete the work in Munich .
8 I 'm not used to coming from this direction so just remind me where the turning is .
9 Would any man who was obviously a pathological criminal be allowed his freedom so soon to enable him to continue a career of sexual violence ?
10 So far the general level of intelligence , wit and originality in posting is about on par with what you 'd expect ie. as Roger so wisely put it SHITE .
11 Do n't more than three times all right thank you very much for your help there .
12 Put your foot down now let me see .
13 As Warwick rather archly puts it :
14 So there they were facing each other , the man a that being squeezed er his lungs being squeezed , the man on the wardrobe n unable to move because he was upside down virtually facing him head-to-head .
15 I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us .
16 A great deal of emphasis tends to be put on personal contacts , as though knowing a journalist personally somehow puts him or her in your pocket .
17 Neil obviously still adores you , Jessica ’
18 ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he began to plead , ‘ that sleeping together automatically provides us with a kind of contract ? ’
19 ‘ But there 's not much blood down here to suggest he burst an aneurysm .
20 Wearing an apron , with her sleeves rolled up and her hair tucked under a duster , Rosie stopped polishing the brasswork on the beer-pumps long enough to throw her a cheerful smile .
21 Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all .
22 Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all .
23 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 .
24 Here was a face , buried in its cloud of hair , which looked more like a mask than a living thing , a mask such as might be worn on All Souls ' Eve to scare the children , all thickly white with painted black sockets for eyes and a mouth so crudely gashed it was but a slit .
25 As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’
26 I think the equipment gets in the way of creativity — photography is an art not a craft , you should MAKE pictures not just take them . ’
27 Many who have left the Association already bitterly regret it .
28 MUFC may find that scoring against teams Id not enough to make them roll over and give up anymore .
29 ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’
30 In his work in the western part of the United States not only did he describe physical erosive processes but was also able to derive a system of laws governing progress from initial to adjusted forms ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) and in his Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains ( 1877 ) he provided the first major treatment by a geologist of the mechanics of fluvial processes .
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