Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If there 's no wind it 's a fine day ! ’ is a Shetland expression , and to me it is especially relevant because not only does it affect the movements of birds and animals , but it makes them so much easier to see on the water . |
| 2 | Oh , Hilly , am I so very hard to talk to ? |
| 3 | So in a very different world to that of Shakespearean comedy , a must harsher abrasive world erm again th that bit where she 's ge get , do I get the impression that most of you found yours much more difficult to get into |
| 4 | Increasingly , investigators have become aware of a rather heterogeneous range of problems ( some of them not particularly easy to formulate ) which may be characterized as ethical . |
| 5 | Here am I , working for a glamorous journalist in a huge house in Richmond , looking after her brat of a daughter ( four-year-old Charlotte , who has her good moments but is mostly involved in a longstanding game of wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle ) , when my mother needs me just as much to look after her daughter , but does n't have a big house and ca n't afford to pay . |
| 6 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 7 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 8 | And er that hurt and that made you much more determined to improve and be able to make a proper load as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | I have come to you tonight as much to thank you for that answer as to explain to those of you who already plan to make your home in Eretz — and to any others who may make such a decision in the future — what lies before you . ’ |
| 10 | are you ever too old to FALL IN LOVE ? |
| 11 | He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that . |
| 12 | Were you really so desperate to get away from me that you 'd risk that ? ’ |
| 13 | ’ So I wondered whether it would put you out too much to let her visit with you for a couple of hours . ’ |
| 14 | From a late twentieth-century perspective are we not more likely to disregard than dissect him ? |
| 15 | ‘ Stones have also been piled on top of them making them far more difficult to see . ’ |
| 16 | Indeed , the experience of ownership makes them even more likely to appreciate the Clio 's comfort , manoeuvrability , spaciousness and performance . |
| 17 | That disturbing thought made me even more glad to have dressed soberly and inconspicuously . |
| 18 | ‘ I missed out on the Olympics , but that made me even more determined to join the paid ranks . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I now knew he was handicapped but that made me even more determined to keep him . ’ |
| 20 | It made me even more determined to keep alive the memory of both Dawn and my wife . |
| 21 | The only effect of these humiliations and challenges was to make me even more determined to overcome Karen 's scruples . |
| 22 | Leaders turned out not to be willing to give up sovereignty over ‘ low-level ’ political issues ; nor , when they did , were they thereby more inclined to integrate in ‘ high-level ’ politics . |
| 23 | In particular , the depressed patients did not have a substantially higher rate of early loss of mother , nor were they much more likely to have three or more children at home . |
| 24 | Secretly , though I had every sympathy for Surkov , I thought him much more likely to have raped a woman when drunk than Miss Hayes-Drummond was to have made a false accusation . |
| 25 | that to find out that you shopped them they just as liable to put a brick through your window , or belt you one , or damage your car next time they see it . |
| 26 | In spite of her rage with him she admitted that she found him just about perfect to look at . |
| 27 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 28 | And after the rescue drama at The Butts flats , on Runcorn 's Castlefields estate , Darren says the taste of part-time firefighting has made him even more determined to earn his retained fire officer status . |
| 29 | But just as at Grand Metropolitan , Peter Webber had begun to get disillusioned with big business when the company joined with Inter-Continental Hotels , so the appearance on the Imperial scene of the Hanson Group made him even more determined to look elsewhere . |
| 30 | Which brought pride back into Creggan 's heart even though he was driven away , and made him even more determined to bring honour to the name of Wrath . |