Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're five eight you 're five eight , you stand , you st I do n't think same size as my mum I do n't think so somehow cos my mums five eight and my mums erm quite tall |
| 2 | Actually Pickerage and I have a relationship that goes much deeper than your grubby little mind could encompass , Quigly . ’ |
| 3 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 4 | Frankie felt himself gripped more tightly , then shaken so violently that his teeth rattled . |
| 5 | The escape pod was rotating so rapidly that its four occupants were pinned against their couches . |
| 6 | Mr Souness , a father of three who is separated from his wife Danielle , has continued to train daily even though his playing career ended two years ago , running for 20 minutes and spending 40 minutes on exercises . |
| 7 | Share prices could fall so far that his cash offer for DRG , the Basildon Bond company , starts to look attractive . |
| 8 | His process was superseded long ago but his name is still used for a type of raincoat . |
| 9 | Their noses bumped gently together and their mouths tasted and explored and caressed hungrily . |
| 10 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 11 | His heart was still banging away unhealthily and his breath was wheezing with its late efforts , but he knew things were under control again . |
| 12 | Karajan himself lives more dangerously than his rivals , taking time to let ideas blossom rather then self-consciously pushing forward , and yet he displays the keenest sense of line . |
| 13 | During the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Mould family moved home frequently but their mobility was on a small scale and most members earned their living as tailors or smallholders or a combination of the two occupations . |
| 14 | With it came a sudden clarity of atmosphere , so that the trees and haystacks stood out in high relief , and the distant hills seemed to come nearer now that their outline was sharply etched on the horizon . |
| 15 | In order not to have to shout above the babble of noise around you have to spend the visit bent sideways so that your mouth and ear can alternately be pressed against the open mesh . |
| 16 | Whoever the caddie , the money will have been well earned ; it is a safe bet that he or she will have had to struggle as hard as his or her player to get to the top of the tree — while carrying forty-five pounds of dead-weight on his back for four miles and four hours as well ! |
| 17 | We compromised on borrowing the Land Rover for positioning , followed by walking as far as their enthusiasm took them . |
| 18 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 19 | Many mothers continue to work part-time even when their children start school , so they can be there when they come home in the afternoon and so holiday childcare arrangements are a little easier . |
| 20 | His toes were contracted and bent downward so that his feet were very arched . |
| 21 | At each stage of their individual development , a number of men stop and grow no further because their needs are satisfied . |
| 22 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 23 | Moreover , audit committees function most effectively when their members understand clearly the financial reporting process , the types of issue that can affect that process , and the relationships between management , auditors and regulators . |
| 24 | The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’ |
| 25 | For we , like all animal species , have an optimum group size and it is one that we have exceeded so dramatically that our species is already well on its way to massive self-destruction . |
| 26 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |
| 27 | In the light of the above , it is clear that two matrices having the same modal matrix do not necessarily permute ; they will do so only if their spectral matrices permute . |
| 28 | Relief came more quickly than my troubled heart expected , for it had been decided that the matron of the SPG hospital at Mandalay could be spared for rural medical work . |
| 29 | Cecil Melling ( the chairman of the Eastern Board , who had supported Schiller 's work since before nationalisation and took costing more seriously than his fellow chairmen ) for a time gained the support of the Central Authority 's commercial department for the better reflection of off-peak costs in the bulk tariff , but the other Area Board chairmen strongly opposed the initiative . |
| 30 | Although diesels cost more initially than their petrol-engined equivalents , they are economical to run and hold their second-hand value relatively well . |