Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |
| 2 | It was not enough that God could have done what Aristotle had deemed impossible . |
| 3 | Bad enough that Richard should have annexed his girl friend , without being left with Richard 's boring wife … |
| 4 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 5 | He came over to the bed , holding up his hand to shade his eyes from the bedside light , and peering almost comically close , so that Tessa could smell the whisky on his breath . |
| 6 | Julian mentions a case of exactly this kind : ‘ I bequeath Stichus to Titius ’ or ‘ let my heir give [ Stichus ] so that Titius may manumit him ’ ( Stichum Titio lego vel heres meus dato ita ut eum Titius manumittat ) . |
| 7 | It tried to jump off the table and had to be held firmly so that Sophie could freeze the surrounding area before lancing it . |
| 8 | A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore . |
| 9 | Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather . |
| 10 | And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her . |
| 11 | Will he ensure that everything possible is done so that Derbyshire can have its first opportunity to have a university , in contrast with Nottingham which will have two , Leicester which will have three , and Loughborough which will have one ? |
| 12 | This to gain the maximum effect of her statement so that Mitch will propose to her . |
| 13 | After the miscarriage Dr Rollerson , Maud 's father , had insisted on paying for them to make an extended tour of Europe , so that Maud could regain her health , and James 's dream of a permanent post at St Bartholomew 's Hospital was indefinitely postponed . |
| 14 | Renoir had some of his canvases taken down from the wall so that Modigliani could look at them more closely . |
| 15 | Get this as early as possible so that ATC can fit you into their traffic . |
| 16 | As the Servant of Yahweh , Jesus treads the path of suffering and obedience right the way to Calvary : so much so that Peter could describe his suffering and death in terms culled from the famous prophecy of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah : |
| 17 | Wilson made her own little calendar on a sheet of brown wrapping paper and wrote the numbers of each day large so that Pilade might learn them . |
| 18 | Its practical object is to gain access to certain documents disclosed by the Police Complaints Authority ( ‘ P.C.A. ’ ) by order of this court for use in a criminal appeal , so that C.N.L. may use them in the libel action . |
| 19 | It is the Spirit of Christ that unites us with Christ : so much so that Paul can say ‘ If any man does not have the Spirit of Christ , he does not belong to Christ ’ ( Rom. 8:9 ) . |
| 20 | She wished to arrive at Frizingley Hall that day around two o'clock , a convenient hour when , with luncheon just over , Mrs Amabel Dallam would be lying on her bed recovering from the exertions of ordering and then pecking at her food , Miss Linnet Gage reading aloud to her , perhaps , as an aid to the digestive processes of one lady , the nest-building of the other , so that Cara might give Miss Gemma Dallam her fitting alone . |
| 21 | She did not want to be specific so that Tait could press her further . |
| 22 | In spring 1988 Johnson asked for the case to be adjourned so that LGCM could move its office without appearing to have been thrown out . |
| 23 | He pushed the list over the desk , turning it so that Hayman could read it . |
| 24 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 25 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Italy would find itself in an easy group . |
| 26 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 27 | He opened a white-painted door with a stained glass transom window above it , then stood back so that Belinda could enter first . |
| 28 | This is generally linked to a sense of the importance of personal development , so that RE can play a significant role in PSE ( personal and social education ) courses . |
| 29 | The European Commission is having a hard enough job getting all its members to clear out the same few channels so that Europe can have a paging system which could be used in any of its countries . |
| 30 | However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary . |