Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | New books and dictionaries are expected to contain the new spellings , while Proust , Racine and the rest will gradually be re-edited so as to make them conform . |
| 32 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 33 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 34 | Either let your hair dry naturally or give it a quick blast with a diffuser/dryer . |
| 35 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 36 | Christopher Gore has all but destroyed his family . |
| 37 | Under the guise of meeting some of its obligations due to the Australian government under its ‘ partnership for development programme ’ — where foreign multi-nationals must reinvest some of their profits back into Australian industry — Sun Microsystems Inc has all but embraced its two technology pariahs , X-terminals and the Motif interface . |
| 38 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 39 | I moved inside and shut it behind me . |
| 40 | He moved suddenly and grabbed her arm , just above the wrist . |
| 41 | That survey was quite methodologically sound in that the sampling procedure was er designed so as to make it as representative as possible of the U K population . |
| 42 | The project will investigate formally the gains that result from coordinated policies on CO2 emissions , as against unilateral policies , and suggest how international agreements on CO2 emissions may be designed so as to ensure they are sustainable . |
| 43 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 44 | Do n't you love your grandmother enough to come downstairs and give her a little goodbye kiss ? ’ |
| 45 | She drew away and straightened herself . |
| 46 | Mr Gorbachev reportedly offered to resign at Saturday 's meeting after Kemerevo party chief Alexander Melnikov ‘ really let himself get carried away and said something like this : ‘ Is it proper to go bowing to the capitalists ? to go asking a blessing from the Pope ? ’ ' according to a conservative Central Committee member . |
| 47 | Yes , before you all write in , I do know that by pressing the yellow button on the machine I will be told when I need to knit with the main carriage , but ( hand on heart ) how many of you have got carried away and done one too many strokes with the lace carriage ? |
| 48 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 49 | He adds : ‘ People who get carried away when describing their wares can end up in the small claims court . ’ |
| 50 | She just stands outside and watches me . |
| 51 | You can not talk about regeneration of of an economy or or s sustained economy , er it is one added to agenda and we will have to prepare to let the economy just over the border at Heathrow fade away and give it to another country . |
| 52 | By the time I had come downstairs and made it over the mali 's trenchworks , Balvinder had polished the bonnet so bright he could curl his moustache in the reflection . |
| 53 | Rather than ramming the trainers with the guns , the dolphins either " swam away or put their snouts on the trainers ' shoulders — very affectionately ! " |
| 54 | I moved away and said it was too hot . |
| 55 | He moved away and pulled her into his arms , his hands beginning to soothe and caress her gently . |
| 56 | Jay melted , knelt upright and kissed her neck . |
| 57 | Adam phoned home and asked his mother to stop his father bothering him when he was in the middle of exams . |
| 58 | I had to come home and tell you immediately . |
| 59 | Alas , I never knew whether Gus survived to come home and marry her . |
| 60 | When I 've saved enough , I plan to come home and marry you , like I said I would . |