Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was puzzled for some moments as to the source of the smell , so little did she expect the brothers would be so dirty . |
| 2 | Others , like Tim Robinson and Derek Randall , have their own businesses so that leaves us to fix up about 10 or a dozen with work at Trent Bridge , coaching and helping the commercial department as well as working on their game . |
| 3 | So this means I got ta walk home all on my little own-some ? |
| 4 | ‘ Who are you ? ’ he murmured , only half expecting her to answer . |
| 5 | They believe they would not have achieved so much had they tried to score points by claiming victory every time an amendment was made or a change was accepted . |
| 6 | She no longer looked forward to each day , so much had she come to dread her sister 's peremptory orders , the changes of routine , the explanatory telephone calls . |
| 7 | So much did he dread that his own was a case of ‘ redemption by parricide ’ that he emphasized the unwillingness with which he accepted the divine call with language which is exaggerated and almost coarse . |
| 8 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 9 | Jezrael 's fingers crisped into the grit beneath her ; even her face worked with the adrenalin that surged up , so much did she want to shove him away and make him save himself . |
| 10 | so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ? |
| 11 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 12 | It brings us quite close to what is essential in some kinds of abstract art : when we look at the work of Rothko or Barnett Newman or maybe Brancusi , what is it exactly that makes us feel these works are so important ? |
| 13 | You 've just all seemed you 've got rather catarrhed have n't we ? |
| 14 | It is important to observe behaviour as accurately as possible because the more accurate the observation the more this helps you to place a valid interpretation on what you have seen or heard . |
| 15 | Mr Tim , by the way , does not acknowledge the modern concept of the language laboratory ; nor does he cleave to the antique idea of the library of books ; still less does he believe in separating students of different ability . |
| 16 | The Literary Critic does n't understand English ; still less does it have any feel for the aesthetics of the language . |
| 17 | Still less do we want to know if the production of the book or research paper represented a learning experience for the academic concerned . |
| 18 | Still less do they have time to develop them further for release to a wider and less technical audience . |
| 19 | Still less do I want to take sides between differing schools of psychotherapy . |
| 20 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 21 | And hopefully those made you chuckle . |
| 22 | The best years of his mind he 'd sacrificed to this godforsaken place and precious little did he have to show for it . |
| 23 | Did you have a salty meal the day before that caused you to retain water , or was the last meal of the day unusually late ? |
| 24 | The other aspect of the question you raised is really that do you change a situation by the very fact that you 're doing an evaluation ? |
| 25 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 26 | Funnily enough — now this makes me think a bit , although it was probably just because he liked the name — he did call his daughter Hannah . |
| 27 | Legally this entitled her to choose her own curators — which in this case meant her regent . |
| 28 | Often this made him laugh and hug her . |
| 29 | Non-intervention did as much to allow him to win the peace as it had done to assist him to victory during the Civil War . |
| 30 | Three to one my friend in the courtyard is there just as much to stop me leaving as to stop others coming in . |