Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a sad thing to Beth , and one which only made her all the more determined to draw Matthew back into the family fold . |
| 2 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 3 | She knew that the Princesse suspected her of having taken Andrzej as a lover , but that only made it all the more plausible . |
| 4 | The first , having special application to devout families , was that God had favoured the dead child , by taking it to Himself and so sparing it both the suffering of this world and the danger that its relative innocence ( for children were born in sin ) would become corrupted . |
| 5 | I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position . |
| 6 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |
| 7 | When you visit a club , why not ask the views of people who actually know something about the place and not some ageing promoter who only visits it once a month ? |
| 8 | Belonged to an old lady who only used it once a week for shopping . ’ ’ |
| 9 | Bill had only parked it here a few minutes ago . |
| 10 | see that , that come aha , well that carpet we 've got in the sitting room you know , it was , it was twelve hundred pound , only put it down a few , er a few months before we |
| 11 | Joan , Diane and Matt , so we 'll see if we can get good this time so show you how the same . |
| 12 | We 'd only see it once a year if it stayed where it was . |
| 13 | Well I think Lee , he , he just realise , I mean I mean he only sees her once a week any way , does n't he ? but you know , she is , she is a lovely girl |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , but you can only use it once a week and you have to get permission . |
| 15 | The perfect answer to all the music press critics : the massed armies of the anti-Morrissey brigade and yours truly ( who bought the record only to give it away a week later after feeling let down ) , came by way of the fans . |
| 16 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 17 | ‘ I had never heard of this before , and you can imagine the complaints from customers , we could only tell them once the police had told us . |
| 18 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 19 | Now if you want that drink you 'd better tell me where the fridge is so I can get some milk . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe you 'd better tell it just the same , ’ I said . |
| 21 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |
| 22 | I only do mine once a week , because I live on me own . |
| 23 | They only do it once a year on the flat . |
| 24 | Well we only do it twice a week . |
| 25 | And that 's another reason we only do it twice a week . |
| 26 | But still easy enough to get it just a tiny bit wrong . |
| 27 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 28 | Yeah , which is why I only take them once every so often which is why I only have the two because it means I can take them , you know if you 've got a family of four kids or something |
| 29 | We only have them once a week |
| 30 | I mean , she coped nicely because , providing we maintain a breeding stock of horses , cows and sheep , we can perhaps help you out a little bit more on that if you could erm , help us some more on the timber . |