Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall be extremely sorry to see it leave . |
| 2 | I sincerely wish you many happy returns of the season which I can scarcely realise as the winter of England , so odd does it seem to have the thermometer at 99 on Xmas day . |
| 3 | We at the Philharmonic , er Lennie 's family are especially sorry to see him go , he meant a tremendous amount to all of us . |
| 4 | ‘ That was a wonderful book David Thomson wrote about it — I 'm so sorry to hear he died . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm so sorry to keep you waiting . ’ |
| 6 | She was puzzled for some moments as to the source of the smell , so little did she expect the brothers would be so dirty . |
| 7 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 8 | Others , like Tim Robinson and Derek Randall , have their own businesses so that leaves us to fix up about 10 or a dozen with work at Trent Bridge , coaching and helping the commercial department as well as working on their game . |
| 9 | Lovell 's overall conclusion on the results of the tests he surveyed is pessimistic : he writes ‘ … it seems to me that the weight of empirical evidence is sufficiently strong to compel us to suspend belief in the hypothesis of rational expectations , pending the accumulation of additional empirical evidence ’ ( Lovell , 1986 , p.12 ) . |
| 10 | How could something that felt so right make you look like this , as if you had just committed the worst crime in the world ? |
| 11 | How much further do we need to explore to discover happiness in God ? |
| 12 | She did n't quite catch what he muttered under his breath , and , deciding it would be exceedingly foolish to ask him to repeat it , fled back to the restaurant . |
| 13 | That was why it was so sensible to have it done early , before the little lines and pouches became obvious . |
| 14 | Indeed so popular has it become that its designer has achieved the ultimate scientific accolade of eponymy ( having a phenomenon , method or piece of equipment named after oneself ) , for the apparatus is known as the ‘ morris water maze ’ ( Figure 9.5 ) and within the last few years has virtually replaced the skinner box as necessary equipment for all psychology labs . |
| 15 | So popular did they become , that their decoration , usually with scraps , became one of the amateur arts to loved by Victorian ladies . |
| 16 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 17 | But he did find her sufficiently different to wish he knew her better . |
| 18 | It is much easier to picture her rebelling . |
| 19 | It would be much easier to get her identified if we could take some photographs around , to show to likely people . ’ |
| 20 | So this means I got ta walk home all on my little own-some ? |
| 21 | ‘ Who are you ? ’ he murmured , only half expecting her to answer . |
| 22 | It is just that it could have been more meaningful and less unpleasant had it felt a touch more like a pilgrimage than a harsh , faceless drive for productivity . |
| 23 | So lively did it get on occasions that Bishop Story had to order the pilgrims to carry crosses and banners in 1478 instead of the coloured staves with which they were prone to hit each other at the height of their religious fervour . |
| 24 | In fact , so contemptible did I find his dismissal of my judgement as to what constitutes talent on the football field , that I flatly refused the £200,000 fee they were willing to pay for Colin Webley and let the useless git go on a free transfer ! |
| 25 | This is a classic case which shows the advantage of the existence of an independent sound archive , perhaps government-backed to ensure it does n't fall foul of copyright laws . |
| 26 | They believe they would not have achieved so much had they tried to score points by claiming victory every time an amendment was made or a change was accepted . |
| 27 | She no longer looked forward to each day , so much had she come to dread her sister 's peremptory orders , the changes of routine , the explanatory telephone calls . |
| 28 | So much did he dread that his own was a case of ‘ redemption by parricide ’ that he emphasized the unwillingness with which he accepted the divine call with language which is exaggerated and almost coarse . |
| 29 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 30 | Jezrael 's fingers crisped into the grit beneath her ; even her face worked with the adrenalin that surged up , so much did she want to shove him away and make him save himself . |