Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strange thing about these different ways of arranging the same information is that they all apparently mean exactly the same thing . |
| 2 | The many thousands of bodies in the ruins all told much the same story , of practically instantaneous death when the searing hurricane from Mt Pelee reached them . |
| 3 | ‘ She only arrived here a few days ago , when her uncle died . |
| 4 | His wife , 54-year-old singer Tonia Bern , lives 6,000 miles away in Hollywood and they only get together every few months . |
| 5 | Everything except the one thing that needed changing ; that alone remained unspeakably the same . |
| 6 | Too many evergreens can look boring , so plant just a few choice ones to add colour to dull areas . |
| 7 | And you 've only worked here a few months ! ’ he said . |
| 8 | The outer boundary of the greenbelt is based on physical features , they 're not necessarily follow exactly the same features all the way round the Greater York Greater York area . |
| 9 | If , like her , you have a sweet tooth , you might be better leaving just a little sugar in the diet to increase the likelihood that you will continue with the new sugar-reduced regime . |
| 10 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 11 | Though neither of them mentioned it , she was obviously feeling much the same as he was and he was overcome by a longing to rush to her side , hold her , comfort her , whisper that everything would be fine . |
| 12 | We mere peasant members are asked , in practice if not in theory , merely to murmur reverentially a few names of a few decent people into a few of the proper ears , who will then look after everything for us . |
| 13 | Start a Shuttle and a space walker off in the same direction and at the same speed , and they stay together following exactly the same path round the Earth . |
| 14 | Sergei and Anton , from Chernobyl , too shy perhaps to speak even a few words in their own language . |
| 15 | I normally lose just a few pounds , Bobby . |
| 16 | Erm I just moved probably a half a pace so P C would get exactly the same view as myself . |
| 17 | Orwell was not alone in observing that England was two , three or four nations ; J. B. Priestley had already made much the same observation in his English Journey . |
| 18 | Government models of the economy have their counterpart in private sector models of the economy which , although not exactly the same , nevertheless exhibit much the same features . |
| 19 | Competitions vary but normally last only a few minutes . |
| 20 | Steel shutters barricaded most of the shops and those that were open displayed only a few boxes of tired vegetables and strings of plastic toys . |
| 21 | For some engaged couples it is difficult to imagine ever having a conflict , while others have already experienced quite a few . |
| 22 | However , a number of other authors ( for example , Alberro , 1981 ; Kormendi and Meguire , 1984 ) have employed something like the Lucas approach using data from more countries , and have generally found much the same result as that reported in Lucas . |
| 23 | He faced the challenge of Dunluce , a 6860-yard , par 73 giant that had already brought quite a few players to their knees , among them title favourite Phil Tataurangi . |
| 24 | ‘ Can you just come forward a few steps ? |
| 25 | The blow was so crippling because confidence had already taken quite a few knocks . |
| 26 | He 'd been buying his clothes at Acme Attractions up the road — a stall which generally did exactly the same as Malcolm only six months later , and were quite open about it . |
| 27 | If we divide orientation techniques into those which are media-assisted and those which are not ( eg guided tours ) we find that the former are infrequently used in the college libraries , while university and polytechnic libraries generally employ both the former and the latter . |
| 28 | He 'd already burned quite a few wallfuls , and had come down , under protest as much to keep Ajayi happy as anything else . |
| 29 | Nina resumed cracking nuts , adopting exactly the same grip on the hammer her mother had demonstrated , and successfully opened quite a few . |
| 30 | If you are a person who usually eats roughly the same amounts each day , with regular meal times , a typical pattern will quickly reveal itself in the diary ; keep it for only seven days . |