Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appear to survive simply because they are businesses , and it is their commercial structure alone which keeps them alive . |
| 2 | Perhaps she reserves her fondest memories for Sergeant Barry Mannakee who became her bodyguard at a time when she felt lost and alone in the royal world . |
| 3 | Yeah she said so she gives I fifty P so I paid the dinner . |
| 4 | He needs to get betrothed fast and naturally he wants his little heifer to be rich . |
| 5 | Only he gets it free . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps it makes it worse . |
| 7 | Now er I 'm thinking in in the case of er perhaps a young accountant advising on financial management who finds something odd and perhaps he reports it direct to the authorities , will he be covered or will he have to go through some procedure in order to bring himself within the protection ? |
| 8 | So he does his own audit before the company audits him . |
| 9 | So he sells his Dutch s cigars for four x . |
| 10 | So he rejects his former selfish hiving-off from the rest of the human race ( lines 53–6 ) ; from now on even worse sights than Beaumont 's painting will be welcome , for they will reinforce his resolve to endure in patience to the end ( lines 57–9 ) . |
| 11 | So it uses its chemical defence sparingly . |
| 12 | So it gives you some idea of what the salaries were like in those days . |
| 13 | Are you w so it gives you some idea , if you 're gon if you 're not gon na revise the whole syllabus , shame on you , erm then it gives you some indication of how to spend your revision wisely . |
| 14 | So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you . |
| 15 | So it seems our old Antiquary bemoaned the lack of a bridge . |
| 16 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 17 | So what does it all mean ? |
| 18 | ‘ When she goes away she leaves it tidy . ’ |
| 19 | Yet a friend with a 14.1hh Welsh Cob says his costs average out at £12 a week ; admittedly she has her own land and he lives out most of the time , but he really earns his living — last year they did everything from Riding Club events to a few days hunting . |
| 20 | Thus there seems nothing inevitable about the process . |
| 21 | Thus it shouts their spiritual blindness , and whispers darkly of their own rebelliousness . |
| 22 | Meanwhile he reassesses his immediate targets . |
| 23 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
| 24 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
| 25 | JUST WHAT does your so-called correspondent Ian Cheek think he 's on ? |
| 26 | JUST WHAT does your so-called correspondent Ian Cheek think he 's on ? |
| 27 | Laughter is a marvellous preventative medicine whether you feel low or not always it does you good if you take yourself off to the nearest comedy film or show . |
| 28 | Later he queries his own adjective ‘ fruitless ’ , but still repeats that the victory long ago in which Sauron was overthrown but not destroyed ‘ did not achieve its end ’ . |
| 29 | oh well you sleep on sherry though it makes you sleepy , you ca n't not sleep . |
| 30 | In confidence now it enters its second half-millennium . |