Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time , of course , Mwafrika and its successors had long since lost their former political stance . |
| 2 | They are also completely fearless — having long since confronted their own vision of world destruction , nothing holds any terror for them any longer . |
| 3 | After years of listening to and reading Anglo-Saxon women letting it all hang out , it was refreshing to be among women who so rigorously kept it all in . |
| 4 | But we are given such a huge sweep from birth to incipient death that the movie never draws breath long enough to give us any depth or conflict . |
| 5 | One of the major problems I 've encountered with this review is actually keeping hold of the guitar long enough to form my own opinion . |
| 6 | ‘ Long enough to know my own worth , ’ Gina retorted , irritated by the sardonic gleam in his eyes . |
| 7 | They would n't have had it long enough to clear their own ground rent . |
| 8 | Bénezet had been in his service long enough to understand his own part in the operation in hand without having to be told . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Hong Kong 's flora and fauna are basically that of neighbouring China , though some islands must have been separated long enough to produce their own endemic species . |
| 10 | Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’ |
| 11 | No — better not give her any excuse to make that sort of trouble . |
| 12 | I was up ‘ til midnight making the gekhakte chicken liver and roasting the turkey for the sandwiches and doing the potato salad , so you 'd better not give me any nonsense about your latest low-fat diet , Rebecca , or you either , Rainbow , though a little slimming routine might not be such a bad thing for you , except today 's a special occasion , so just tuck in . |
| 13 | So she sent a letter home and my dad said , ‘ Yes , well , you 'd better not do it any more ’ . |
| 14 | I suppose I 'd better not tell him that thing you said about his face looking as if it was carved out of corned beef . |
| 15 | Since you 're apparently not packing your own on this trip , I take it you and Kelly will be on the look-out for handsome ski-bums ? ’ |
| 16 | Er well it 's just all the char about thirteen fourteen charities are getting together just to sell their own goods , bric-à-brac and various other things . |
| 17 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 18 | Obviously , injecting on such a casual basis , given the fact that the majority will necessarily not possess their own ‘ works ’ , presents a serious problem in terms of the spread of the HIV infection . |
| 19 | This personage reflected , somewhat grimly , that the first thing he should have to teach his little charge would be to appear to address himself to his mother when he spoke to her — especially not to make her such an Improper answer as that ( 6 ) . |
| 20 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 21 | The population was distributed in a very uneven pattern with the concentration in four county boroughs of the south providing a contrast to the scattered and declining population of north and mid-Wales : ‘ six of the thirteen counties were experiencing falling populations and most of the others were only just holding their own ’ ( Wood 1976 : 117 ) . |
| 22 | Penny that come today she 's a horse fanatic , she 's only just sold her own , her own horse , but oh they 're out of this world , absolutely , were n't they , they were just stunning . |
| 23 | ‘ He could have a point , ’ Claudia said ; Dana only ever saw her own point of view . |
| 24 | They would seem to demonstrate the proposition that a text can only ever designate its own activity , that textuality is inherently narcissistic . |
| 25 | Writing to members of F&S and direct contact by shop officers with members of F&S got the most votes , so you are now asked to sign , date and send the attached ‘ model ’ letter to ( who is Chair of both F&S and SSC ) , or better still write your own version of the letter , to make your feelings clear . |
| 26 | Better off using your own . |
| 27 | ‘ What I liked in the books was the free open-air life , the spice of illegality and daring , roguish characters — the opportunities so far exceeding my own , the gun , the great pond , the country home , the apparently endless leisure — the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher — and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln , and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent . ’ |
| 28 | In fact , in a gloriously mystical way , we are an integral part of this cosmic energy dance and can only really understand it all by mystic superconsciousness , from within . |
| 29 | Better far to confront them all , and let them make of it what they would . |
| 30 | Those who claim that the obligation to obey the law is prima facie only implicitly deny it that right . |