Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The situation would of course be different if a method eventually became available whereby the sex of the offspring could be selected at conception .
2 We only found that out the other day !
3 It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about .
4 So we 'd better , we 'd better sort that out a bit .
5 It will be demonstrated later that the correlation between the true area and the projected area visible to the camera is good enough to make this not a prime consideration .
6 In complete figures the head generally sits straight on the lion-neck , but the long , sinuous bird 's neck is a constant feature of the cauldron-heads .
7 Just shutting that up a bit .
8 ‘ France has six borders , ’ says La Henin , ‘ and will soon have seven when the Eurotunnel spans the Channel . ’
9 Right , and just , just work out what seventeen per cent , just try seventeen over a hundred times four hundred , just to check , see what it comes to , you would n't normally check it .
10 Well it just means sixty over a hundred ,
11 They 'd both had little enough the previous night .
12 Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid .
13 She waited thus for what she judged to be half an hour , moving a few steps to and fro to keep warm whenever the coast was clear .
14 And Neighbourhood Watch is really to try that down a little bit .
15 At the end of April I had almost forgotten my prediction for a release when Bilal and his partner , for whom we had no other name than Frank 's ‘ Jerk ’ , excitedly started spring-cleaning both the apartment and us .
16 ‘ You know your father almost went bankrupt about a year ago ? ’
17 Thus , if — as an outside observer — you listen to ‘ core ’ vernacular Belfast speech , it will actually sound all much the same to you : you will not easily observe without systematic analysis many of the differences that exist and you will not usually be able to tell how far these co-vary with social factors , such as age , sex and area .
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