Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 2 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 3 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 4 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 5 | I only tax mine for six month now then , ay ? |
| 6 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 7 | Then they decided perhaps I did n't have to stay in that one after all , so put me into another single cell , which was equally disgusting . |
| 8 | But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ? |
| 9 | Well he 's only put it on one side . |
| 10 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |
| 11 | They deteriorated with time , and the only way to prolong their life was to store them carefully in airtight containers and only wear them on special occasions . |
| 12 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 13 | ‘ So tell me about this Rose Bowl of yours , ’ he said , leaning back and signalling the waiter for another bottle of wine . |
| 14 | ‘ So tell me about this case of yours . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll write him stating , ‘ Since you obviously know nothing about English literature , we expect you never to quote from it again' . ’ |
| 16 | I only fill them in that I know for a fact . |
| 17 | They only tell you about that bit . |
| 18 | The great goods depots of London possess an importance superior even to that of the passenger termini themselves and furnish to the keen observer fields of study every whit as interesting as those afforded by the heterogeneous masses of humanity which daily pack themselves into express and local trains . |
| 19 | Only get her off this estate now , you understand ? |
| 20 | I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months . |
| 21 | As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it . |
| 22 | If so contact him at 23 , Manor House Farm , Flockton , near Wakefield , West Yorks . |
| 23 | So I thought well I 'm in with a chance , you know , one 's wanted a and this leg repairing so compare it with that no |
| 24 | Pakistan and Afghanistan together produce something like 1,200 tons of hashish a year . |
| 25 | She did routine office stuff for the rest of the day , and only re-read it at five . |
| 26 | Girls who suddenly find themselves with enormous breasts may collapse in on themselves in embarrassment or try to hide behind folded arms , and the result is an equally collapsed voice which often gives out altogether at crucial moments . |
| 27 | If you need urgent information you are invited to use the following telephone number but , please , only use it between 19.00 and 21.00 on Mondays to Thursdays and only if it is absolutely necessary … |
| 28 | Okay so try it with twelve first of all and then try it with twenty four |
| 29 | So try it like that and swing your mallet too so you wo n't be able to go above hoop three and |
| 30 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |