Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is such a diverse field and so open to personal preference that I only intend to say a few words about it . |
| 2 | ‘ I only intend to stay a few minutes . |
| 3 | In Example 21 , Franck gives an almost identical repeat of his first phrase ( bars 1 and 2 ) , with just enough change to satisfy a forward harmonic movement which is stronger than that in the Ravel . |
| 4 | If you only want to take a few doors or windows back to bare wood for repainting , there are many other cheaper guns that would do the job . |
| 5 | no I did n't want to leave a little , only want to leave a proper little drain things , you know |
| 6 | If you only want to borrow a small amount , a better option is to take a further advance from your existing lender ( less than £100 to arrange ) or , alternatively , a top-up loan from a second lender . |
| 7 | Such a service is particularly useful for people who only want to sell a few privatisation shares . |
| 8 | If you only want to raise a few seedlings in spring , and provide a humid atmosphere for some cuttings later , an unheated propagator will be adequate . |
| 9 | On the eve of the ballot both camps expressed confidence about the outcome : Mrs Thatcher 's team anticipated gaining sufficient votes to win outright : Heseltine 's followers asserted that he had enough support to force a second ballot . |
| 10 | I only manage to squint a civil wince in return . |
| 11 | Travel between Praslin and the other islands is by Air Seychelles ; the baggage allowance on these flights is only 5kg , so remember to take a small bag for use when island hopping . |
| 12 | This had been cooked with mint , lime and enough coriander to give a sneaky kung fu blow in the back of one 's throat . |
| 13 | So decide to meet a certain number of people for so many minutes each day , and gradually increase this over six months . |
| 14 | I suppose fresh meat is better but you 're only suppose to keep a certain time anyway even in the freezer . |
| 15 | When the feet are hurting it shows in the face , as well as making you thoroughly miserable , so go to see a qualified chiropodist . |
| 16 | For the rest of the day he-would go into Inverness , take his spare clothes into a launderette and then perhaps try to find a public baths with hot showers . |
| 17 | You get much above about fifty people you perhaps do need a some technical assistance with the power . |
| 18 | But this is not a good enough reason to have a large military arsenal since peace-keeping forces in the past have only consisted of soldiers and personal defence weapons . |
| 19 | Any extra load on the tail will help to increase its resistance to moving sideways and so help prevent a serious swing . |
| 20 | This means that there will be no restriction on the number of places available and I am hoping that as many parents as possible will come and so help to make a real occasion of it . |
| 21 | But then when Narouz had himself raised it and indicated that he had changed his mind , it had suddenly come to seem a good idea . |
| 22 | The phonetic information is manually input using a special keyboard having 21 keys . |
| 23 | It 's been a very big step to use pressure flow studies at all , and now that we 're used to using pressure flow studies , we 're going to have to go back to the drawing board and perhaps learn to use a different kind of technology that 's ambulatory , that allows us |
| 24 | Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements . |
| 25 | You only have to take a little bit off ai n't enough to go under your nose . |
| 26 | I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me . |
| 27 | The truth is ladies you only have to touch a bald man and you light up like Blackpool Tower . |
| 28 | But , you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit . |
| 29 | That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit . |
| 30 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |