Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anyway — ’ She looked down on her partly eaten meal and her nose wrinkled before she went on , ‘ I 've got to go downstairs again , and you 'd better clear away here when you 've finished , then go into Mother and see if you can soothe her ruffled feathers . |
| 32 | Waste containers should be large enough to take broken glass and be economical , but small enough to lock safely away and change frequently . |
| 33 | It has often been pointed out that in less developed societies , old people were seen as the repository of wisdom needed for daily living as well as for spiritual guidance . |
| 34 | So much done so quickly and then nothing . |
| 35 | The matters obviously moved fairly rapidly because the parties were then almost ready to exchange contracts . |
| 36 | ‘ I was only venturing as far as the bathroom , ’ she said with dignity . |
| 37 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 38 | BELFAST motor cycle dealer Ernie Coates holds a race record — he 's the only man ever to lap the Isle of Man TT course at over 100mph on a solo machine as well as on a sidecar outfit . |
| 39 | The goat suddenly trotted eagerly forward and Mrs Hollidaye had to run to keep hold of the leather strap . |
| 40 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 41 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 42 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 43 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 44 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 45 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 46 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 47 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |
| 48 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |
| 49 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 50 | It literally happened as quickly as that — on the Monday I decided to finish it and on the Tuesday I packed my bags and left . |
| 51 | They will perhaps understand even better if they pay particular attention to the fine details of every movement . |
| 52 | But this merely confirms yet again that the idea of numerical diversity of ontological existents is inseparable from the idea of an objective order , and consequently that a clarification of the former idea depends upon a clarification of the sources and the conditions of intelligibility of such an order . |
| 53 | Finally , a reminder about circular knitting given in figure 2 will only work so long as there is n't a punchcard in the card reader . |
| 54 | The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 . |
| 55 | I never say my work is going to last a long time — usually five to ten years , though obviously the smaller pieces which are kept inside last as long as people look after them . |
| 56 | If the model only gets as far as being on its side and then starts to fall , apply opposite lateral cyclic to roll out and back stick to recover . |
| 57 | Let's not chance that decision , let's all move forward together and cooperate and make it work . |
| 58 | Now , as we 've all known since , oh , the first Crass record at least , rants tend to become extremely boring very quickly unless a ) there 's a point to them and b ) there 's some semblance of a tune to hum along to , and Leatherface have no problems on that score . |
| 59 | I said ooh cos I said when I come here we 're always so busy I said I only get as far as er er the kitchen do n't I ? |
| 60 | I only discovered that late as well when I became friends with John at college . |