Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am a fairly lonely person — I do have friends but I do n't get to see them very often because of my unsociable shift work . |
| 2 | ‘ Mum gets a bit tired ; I go to see them as often as I can : it cheers Dad up , and Mum loves the children . ’ |
| 3 | I try to see them as often as I can . |
| 4 | Did I tell you Madeleine came to see me again shortly after you left ? |
| 5 | This a bedroom key for receptacle which turns on energy systems only when the fob is inserted — and turns them off again when the guest takes the key out to leave the room . |
| 6 | That 's the only one that ever I remembered but they were all , and they you know they , they used to graze their horses up there in that field up at the top , and this Billy that used to go round all the district and , and buy up all these old cast horses and bring them up there until he had a consignment gathered up . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll put his comments away in the locker and bring them out again when we go down to their place , ’ said the Scotland international . |
| 8 | And the men will think them much safer if my method is French . |
| 9 | It will be an ‘ entitlement ’ to children only if the teachers ' interpretation of it and their teaching style , as it is affected by its requirements , will make them more rather than less likely to be the teachers with the sorts of qualities which are likely to engage their learners , interests . |
| 10 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 11 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 12 | Ira Dilworth applauded the idea and gave me an official ‘ To Whom It May Concern ’ letter of introduction , which opened a number of official doors , got me as far as Edmonton , and served as an invaluable introduction to some high ranking officers of the R.C.A.F. |
| 13 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 14 | Practitioners of such technically adept management , the new ‘ professional managers ’ of United States business schools , have recently been lambasted both for their failure to conceive strategies and to implement them as well as for their systematic choice of self-defeating strategies ( Hayes and Abernathy , 1980 ; see also Hayes and Wheelwright , 1984 ; Hayes et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 15 | Studies in first language ( see Peters 1983 ) and second language acquisition ( see Gleason 1982 ; Vihman 1982 ) suggest that the way learners proceed is to begin with these units as lexical complexes associated with certain contexts and then pick them apart analytically as the need arises . |
| 16 | What I think would be nice is if , if one or two people from each group came and laid claim to some of these things and we went through them and we sort of read them out loud because it 's a bit hard to read there , and we 'll see what Bob 's view is on this and . |
| 17 | You have the problem of how much to tax because on the one hand you 're trying to promote this rich peasant economy and not erm tax them too heavily because you do n't want to , them to not invest with |
| 18 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 19 | Both men and women lowered their chances of developing cataracts when they stopped smoking , but still got them more often than non-smokers . |
| 20 | I started drawing them as well as I could remember . |
| 21 | It er I I mean I as far as I 'm concerned it 's er extremely difficult to get people to er come to social events . |
| 22 | They really do n't care where they send them so long as call up up Edingley Hill what |
| 23 | Maybe send them out rather than wait till the next meeting , aha |
| 24 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 25 | Their ankles were harnessed to an elastic cord , which bounced them back up before they could hit the sea . |
| 26 | ‘ By the time we 're married , you will know me as well as you know yourself . |
| 27 | Forgive me as freely as I forgive you . ’ |
| 28 | If you want potatoes with your meal , cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips . |
| 29 | If the worms start to move into their burrows when disturbed , do not try to pull them back out as they can grip the sides of the burrow very strongly . |
| 30 | By now the men at the window had fixed bayonets , and fell upon the invaders , driving them back temporarily until sheer weight of numbers decided the issue . |