Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale . |
| 2 | He was staring into the fire rather grimly and she had to take her courage firmly in hand . |
| 3 | His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | No sooner had I selected wheels down than I noticed that the port wheel had not come right down because I did not get a green light on that side of the undercarriage indicator . |
| 5 | And making a load of hay especially , you had to work it , roll every pitchfork you had , roll it and set it properly so that you knew as you now then you must have numbers on them so you know how to unravel that lot . |
| 6 | It was rather indifferently that he described to her his walk , his find , his leading of the police to the spot . |
| 7 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 8 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 9 | Although this is a legal thing to do in Texas , an uproar over the shameless display of influence-peddling prompted most of the recipients to return the money ( mostly only after they had cashed the cheques ) . |
| 10 | The only way around these attempted take-offs was to walk very slowly so that we did n't build up too much ground speed , as airline pilots would say , and stop if Dawn 's wings did open . |
| 11 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 12 | Ron was virtually dead physiologically before he achieved a consistent recognition of the severity of his state . |
| 13 | He got up and came to squat next to her , flipping through the pages rather impatiently until he stopped suddenly . |
| 14 | It was now that a more marked difference from the Parisians showed itself in their work , most obviously when they laid hands on Sermisy or Janequin for their own purposes . |
| 15 | Half an hour later , she felt a little better although she had n't decided what to do . |
| 16 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 17 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 18 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
| 19 | On the negatives there was the er resumption of a S S A P twenty four charge for U K pensions , a little less than we expected , we had a strong revaluation in mid-year , the incremental redundancy costs that Frank has already touched upon and er the er dis er the discontinued profits not in ninety two . |
| 20 | By the next Prime Minister 's Questions on Thursday she knew the policy rather better than we did . |
| 21 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 22 | She had evidently , Ronni thought , slept rather better than she had . |
| 23 | Right so as I said , Point taken but I 'd like people to go away and read it . |
| 24 | Right so if we had a test statistic greater than one point seven zero on a T ratio . |
| 25 | Right so if we had a T ratio of two point five , right , we could reject the null hypothesis of the five percent level but we would n't be able to reject the null hypothesis at the one percent level . |
| 26 | Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ? |
| 27 | Pink Industry played on , rather ineffectively as it happened . |
| 28 | She disliked the wretched man so intensely that she did n't care if she never had to see him again . |
| 29 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 30 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |