Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 2 | ‘ You 're so lovely , ’ he said huskily , and her throat had a great lump in it suddenly that threatened to choke her . |
| 3 | It was not the beauty alone that had made me draw in my breath . |
| 4 | Opening her door , she edged inside and tried to close it . |
| 5 | We love her so much and want to give her a lovely home . |
| 6 | I told her that I loved her very much and wanted to marry her . |
| 7 | The deathbed scene ; the funeral ; the sadness of friends , and the smugness of certain relations who never liked you much and have outlived you ( just wait till my will is read ! ) . |
| 8 | The phone rang , and she rose lethargically and went to answer it . |
| 9 | Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers . |
| 10 | ANC president Nelson Mandela was informed by Bush of his decision personally and tried to dissuade him . |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 12 | I wondered , if Jean-Claude were there , why the child had not said so and gone to fetch him for me ? |
| 13 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 14 | Maurice clasped his hands together and seemed to study them . |
| 15 | The doctor brought his hands together and seemed to study them . |
| 16 | We spent a wonderful week together and have agreed we wo n't leave it another eight years before we meet again . |
| 17 | And er I just lost interest all together and stopped doing it . |
| 18 | I said I thought it too valuable to wear constantly and had put it in my dressing-table drawer . |
| 19 | Perhaps one agrees that expansion of the money supply and inflation do often go together but refuses to accept it as significant unless told why . |
| 20 | Only when threatened does it flash its huge , broad tongue at its assailant . |
| 21 | All advertising and promotional literature will be written so as to avoid misleading you in any way . |
| 22 | It is much easier to prevent this situation developing by being firm from the outset , rather than trying to remedy it later . |
| 23 | Just write the minus two all the way across there cos it allows you to do the calculation much easier rather than trying to remember it . |
| 24 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 25 | By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern . |
| 26 | Therefore corrections must be extremely small and like the localiser , what you are aiming at is a steady indication of the GP needle , rather than trying to put it dead in the centre . |
| 27 | Britain had played a positive role by supporting the Namibia settlement and by talking to South Africa rather than trying to ostracise it , she added . |
| 28 | It is , as we saw clearly during the Gulf war , the very sophistication of America 's procurement and the new technology of weaponry that demand that we count the Americans as friends and allies rather than trying to go it alone . |
| 29 | Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns . |
| 30 | If you suffer from really severe indoor condensation problems that sensible ventilation will not cure , it may be worth considering dehumidification — removing the moisture from the air , rather than trying to disperse it . |