Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometime during the night , I was woken by my cold feet , a warm weight on my chest and the loudest purr I had ever heard . |
| 2 | And the thought of Leo actually kissing her properly made her feel positively ill ! |
| 3 | A FILM studio manageress who claimed her boss said she was ‘ the worst lay I 've ever tried to have ’ was awarded £1,000 yesterday . |
| 4 | Darrow and Govan were the first to identify with any certainty which ions were lost in diarrhoea and the quantities involved , thereby enabling them to state accurately the required make-up of an intravenous infusion aimed at replacing lost nutrients . |
| 5 | of ten , when people talked at her , it only made her feel more isolated and cut off . |
| 6 | In many ways the life of a great political hostess was very attractive to her , which only made her feel more guilty , but she knew that she could not tolerate a life of subordination and absolute dependency . |
| 7 | It only made them laugh more . |
| 8 | ‘ He only made me cry once , ’ she mumbled against his sweater . |
| 9 | We can only presume they mean too BUSY |
| 10 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 11 | It had lain there all day , still unread , for he knew that just to look at it , just to scan its heavy headlines announcing further death and destruction would only make him sink deeper into the bog of doubt . |
| 12 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
| 13 | These broad themes taken together led us to put forward a proposal for a anew divorce law in our book Grounds for Divorce . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you think I 've lost a fortune only to see it salted away in the same nip-cheese fashion as before ? |
| 15 | ‘ I was extraordinarily lucky in starting off in a post that was small enough and compact enough to enable me to meet quite a sizeable proportion of the population . ’ |
| 16 | Their toughness and wounds are high enough to enable them to get away without a shield . |
| 17 | Often such women have been married to strong , protective men who accepted and possibly even fostered their childish and dependent attitudes to everything in life , and when this support is suddenly withdrawn they feel completely lost . |
| 18 | Then I suddenly found I had quite a lot of projects going on , working for Kenny Rogers and Jimmy Ruffin … |
| 19 | ‘ How long has she worked here ? ’ asked David . |
| 20 | That this is what happens can be demonstrated by playing recordings of the clicks to one batch of eggs and so inducing them to hatch well before others of the clutch that have been kept individually and in silence . |
| 21 | Better to accept it 's all gone . |
| 22 | As a left-handed player myself , I had the misfortune and inconvenience of travelling to a professional shop last year only to find they had absolutely no left-handed equipment . |
| 23 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 24 | TWICE before the Kurds have been offered generous deals by Iraq 's Baathist government — only to find them snatched away . |
| 25 | Marius and I waited for twenty minutes and then walked into Mike 's room , only to find him snoring loudly , unconscious . |
| 26 | The antithetical models of design 's significance that we possess today , all of which contain implicitly or explicitly a view of " design-and-society " relations ( for example the view that sees design as merely the activity of commodity shaping , or the view that sees design as the activity which alone allows us to organise consciously the meeting of material human needs — which " involve things or usable products " — in forms consonant with and conducive to particular kinds of social relations or ways of life … ) contain also , naturally , a view of what design is . |
| 27 | Thankfully God knows my limitations — I only hope I do too ! |
| 28 | I can only assume she tried once too often to enter the nest , as the female died during the night . |
| 29 | Yeah , so you 'd be if you 're making records you 'd better made it count early on . |
| 30 | His albums ‘ Travels ’ , ‘ Still Life Talking ’ and ‘ Offramp ’ have all seen him walk away with a guitar case full of awards . |