Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These deals have slowly been finding out that they just ca n't get financing , ’ said William Lefebvre , a market analyst with New York 's Advest group . |
| 2 | The manor has long since been broken up and sold off and Andrew now only holds small pieces of land , though these include some of the grass and trees where the proclamation is made . |
| 3 | Many houses have since been built in and near Back Lane . |
| 4 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 5 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |
| 6 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |
| 7 | The buy-out company — premier Brands — has since been doing well and Sir Adrian is confident Cadbury 's shareholders will have nothing to complain about when the new company does eventually go to the market . |
| 8 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 9 | ‘ Most of the clothes we have here have only been worn once or twice . |
| 10 | Previously , the shoe had only been tied on and this greatly impeded the animal 's progress . |
| 11 | It 's only been cleaned once since I 've had , and it 's been down er , since nineteen |
| 12 | The eight-mile round trip has only been bettered once before when the loco ran 15 miles for railway celebrations in Sacramento . |
| 13 | Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years . |
| 14 | All the convulsions and brutal gashings of the rural landscape by the railway engineers have long been smoothed over and forgotten ; and we take the railway earthworks and monuments as much for granted as we do the hedges and fields of the enclosure commissioners or the churches of our medieval forefathers . |
| 15 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 16 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
| 17 | The ghouls had all been sent away and under the fierce new glare of naked lights , caretakers were clearing up while someone pushed a trolley of glass-eyed computer-monitors that got into everybody 's way . |
| 18 | An old broken bicycle frame , some rusted railings , an old disintegrating metal gate … it had all been lying here and there on the property . |
| 19 | Fire rides , equipment , improvement of the natural water supplies , rendezvous points , sign posting , adequate access into the woods , had all been discussed solemnly as befitted their importance . |
| 20 | Half of one ear was missing , and his nose had obviously been broken more than a few times . |
| 21 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 22 | The other people in the queue had obviously been waiting longer than I and were moaning and groaning . |
| 23 | But cars , lorries and tractors are more effective so are used more than a few years ago . |
| 24 | ( When Sinhalese thresh their paddy , pairs of buffaloes yoked together are walked round and round the threshing floor at night . |
| 25 | However , the leaf people and the original people alone are described automatically as shy and fearful . |
| 26 | All too frequently heads of agreement alone are drawn up and the full agreement left for later long delayed execution . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd better be getting back or the foreman will be giving me the sack . ’ |
| 28 | Some word processing functions will apparently be bucked up and international versions are due soon , including localizing it for the company 's new exclusive Japanese distributor Sumisho Electronics . |
| 29 | they 'll obviously be moving about and tutors ca n't be faffing round every two minutes if something goes wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |