Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terms like cunt and slag are bandied about even more often than the cock and the fist , and once again , women do not have a parallel powerful language with which to hit back . |
| 2 | Support can be coerced for only so long , after which an acceptable degree of legitimacy must be developed in some form . |
| 3 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
| 4 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 5 | agree with that lady over there about er Queen , I think she does a wonderful job and , it 's come through lately there like she just suffers the same as any natural mother , their family , the way they live , the way their |
| 6 | It 's marvellous to see the wide variety of bird feeders , pond liners , wildflower seeds , nest-boxes , butterfly border plants and other merchandise marketed in this way , and , of course , it 's to be encouraged in an industry which has for too long simply serviced the chemical-warfare approach to gardening . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that instead of treating the sea as the giver of life to mankind , as it certainly is , it has for far too long been treated as the world 's sewer . |
| 8 | In contrast , the local circumstances are such that for Parkinson the Merseyside experience is one that he may disapprove of in principle but lives with far more readily in practice . |
| 9 | Right at the end a glass pavilion had been built for concerts and parties , and Gran said people had come from as far away as Lancaster . |
| 10 | The zip gaped open an inch at his waist , which was cinched in far too tightly by a fake crocodile belt . |
| 11 | Now she was trapped until maybe tomorrow when tempers had cooled and Peter would tell Marc the truth and Marc would forgive Peter . |
| 12 | Yeah I want in there as well |
| 13 | ‘ No , he moved in here only recently — after mother died . ’ |
| 14 | Choking back his own fear of the desolate , grassless woodland , the before-dawn-returning owls that they could hear some way off and the extraordinary , rank animal smell that seemed to come from somewhere rather nearer , he began . |
| 15 | He spoke , and his voice seemed to come from very far off . |
| 16 | Indisputable evidence for the movement of goods is provided by commodities which came from the Continent , and at times originated from even further afield . |
| 17 | But erm the doctors have told me really I can do whatever I want to straight away virtually you know , and erm I 'll just give it another week or two weeks before I start practising erm and you know , I 'm very fit now . |
| 18 | However , when there were pragmatic constraints on which of two people was likely to be the actor and which the acted-upon , there was no difference in response times to active and passive forms , and a sentence like The bather was rescued by the lifeguard was responded to just as quickly as The lifeguard rescued the bather . |
| 19 | It was swamped by the incoming tide and sank at about 5am yesterday . |
| 20 | Faith 's day starts at around 6am when baby Jake wakes up and starts yelling for a feed . |
| 21 | Budgets are a particularly useful vehicle for the expression of quantifiable results , and will be looked at more closely later in the chapter . |
| 22 | Looked at more closely still the dissolved athlete would become even more inscrutable than usual and could only be described with a set of equations which guessed where his component particles might be . |
| 23 | I think that 's a very good question , I think though that that has been looked at very very thoroughly by the County Council , and certainly there are only a very limited number of options available around York which would actually meet the needs of York . |
| 24 | Whether or not the avoidable harm , injury , and suffering should then be called ‘ crime ’ is a point legal theorists then dance on for ever ; but a ‘ crime ’ by any other name causes at least just as much pain and grief . |
| 25 | Ellesmere Port Police are investigating the accident which occurred at about 5pm yesterday afternoon . |
| 26 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 27 | I mention them briefly because among management trainers they have many aficionados ; they are written about more fully elsewhere . |
| 28 | Absolutes aside , it is clear that relative to other advanced industrial countries Britain 's economy has grown for too long less sturdily . |
| 29 | They are n't seen about here very often . |
| 30 | We have all endured for far too long , the blatherings of scientific greybeards regarding ‘ The Expanding Universe ’ . |