Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he did eat any food he would either chew very slowly or just hold it in his mouth . |
| 2 | But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once . |
| 3 | ‘ So where exactly do I fit into all this ? ’ |
| 4 | Did he zip them together or just hand her one ? |
| 5 | But perhaps that only encouraged them to move faster elsewhere . ’ |
| 6 | So that just gives you some idea and it 's up to your parents if they want to . |
| 7 | So that probably makes it but I say without having me own book to check it I ca n't |
| 8 | It opens with the eponymous party in progress ; Edward Chamberlayne is the sole host since his wife , Lavinia , has suddenly and unaccountably left him . |
| 9 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |
| 10 | But how many people do you know who smile broadly at you , and speak in a calm and controlled manner , when all along they are fuming inside and never show it ? |
| 11 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 12 | He by no means dismisses the claims of these poets , but gently and respectfully sets them aside — ‘ I do not feel that they have much part in this essay . |
| 13 | She has been known to stop the traffic on one of her book-signing sessions , a situation which eventually required the police to gently and good-humouredly sort it out . |
| 14 | The letters are arriving so thank you very much and please keep them coming . |
| 15 | Music has always had a vital role in Christian worship , and the main services on a Sunday naturally and necessarily include it . |
| 16 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 17 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 18 | Peers are nowadays almost entirely appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister although the monarch does retain the right to confer personally and occasionally exercises it in the case of eminently deserving elder statesmen and suchlike . |
| 19 | Always rehang the hooks about every twelfth row or so and never leave them in place if you have to leave the work . |
| 20 | I wept and I hugged my father and I even hugged Diggs , smelling his hard-blue uniform fabric as I did so and almost feeling him melt and believe me . |
| 21 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 22 | erm may I suggest Mr if your Lordship would care to sit at ten o'clock and then think he 'll get at eleven fifteen , but really in |
| 23 | Some employers will cease the opportunity as a chance to pay less and thereby making it even more difficult to make ends meet . |
| 24 | As you do this , silently count three cards from the top of the pack , place them together and slightly indent them so you can see the comer of the third card just enough to know its value . |
| 25 | Now take your concentration to your hands , make fists and squeeze them together and then let them go . |
| 26 | Our head of department put it all together and then let us read it to see if there was anything we wished to change and add and then submitted it … |
| 27 | Cement them together and then leave them to dry and them er left them to dry until the till they they get dried you see . |
| 28 | You tape her fingers together and then tie her — sitting on the floor — to a stout wooden workbench . |
| 29 | Er suggested that the officers have a joint meeting and get together and actually ask them what transport to be given the figures er for night flights so that they could and so on , and I know by the recent customer complaints and I believe members attended the meeting of those four Councils so that I think that discuss that . |
| 30 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |