Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 2 | It should be damp enough to hold together when squeezed in the hand , but not so wet that water still runs out through the fingers . |
| 3 | Some only found out when their supplier told them that they could no longer buy tetra unless they could certify that it was going to be used in a ‘ non-dispersive manner ’ — ie not as a solvent even in a closed system . |
| 4 | For a century or more both Parliament and the courts have been careful not to act so as to cause conflict between them . |
| 5 | A word of warning : be careful not to park illegally as your vehicle is liable to be towed away . |
| 6 | This usually crops up when fairly young people and school-leavers apply for jobs , because the interviewer has little or no work record by which to judge the calibre of the applicants . |
| 7 | The only point I would make is that you must wait until they are willing reflectively to turn around before you start operating with the abstractions . |
| 8 | This , this gradually come on as he got older , you see , this haemophilia trouble with his nose . |
| 9 | This really applies only where the vendor is a company owned by individuals . |
| 10 | This typically occurs just after you have given your dog a bath . |
| 11 | Some even act strangely if you have n't got a printer connected ! |
| 12 | For example , Manning ( 1977 ) showed how policemen and women in the ranks have an ability to bypass or undermine innovations introduced by police managers , some even doing so while appearing to endorse the policy change ( Chatterton 1979 ) . |
| 13 | This sometimes went further than raising the TOEFL entry fee and involved putting up guarantees for thousands of dollars for candidates . |
| 14 | Some never get further than the nine railway termini which connect the capital to every part of the former Soviet Union . |
| 15 | It seems odd not to do so when he is innocent . |
| 16 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 17 | OUT AT the Lollapalooza tour 's MASH unit , MIKI from LUSH finally reveals just where the rock ‘ n ’ roll in her blood comes from . |
| 18 | So it out to be easy enough to work out where ten is since bar eleven starts the fourth line . |
| 19 | Chief Supt Baker added : ‘ The carnival is too big for Handsworth now and there are more suitable parks , big and accessible enough to cope better than the cramped Victorian streets of Handsworth . |
| 20 | Their long , slurred vowels rendered their German almost incomprehensible to me , though it was impossible not to listen in as they argued more loudly and grinned more broadly at each other 's jokes as the beer did its work . |
| 21 | The tax payable actually increases even though the rate of tax has decreased . |
| 22 | The expedition organisers hope Harry Taylor will be fit enough to come down when the storm passes in 24 hours . |
| 23 | Unlike most birdwatchers , I am lucky enough to live less than four hours ' drive from their regular winter home — a wildfowl marsh constructed by one of the Maharajahs of Bharatpur . |
| 24 | The cutting action is very positive , and the trigger is large enough to use easily if the operator is wearing protective gloves . |
| 25 | If we had superhuman reactions then perhaps we could manage with a rigid pole , for we would then be fast enough to ease off when the fish made a sudden plunge . |
| 26 | Seemed to love going forward and was quick enough to get back when needed . |
| 27 | Once you begin lying , it is hard not to go on because it is impossible to explain why you lied in the first place . |
| 28 | It was better not to go out than to go and fall down . |
| 29 | We 'll all just turn up when we can . ’ |
| 30 | It was all neatly laid out as it had been the day before . |