Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serves him right for leaving it open . |
| 2 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
| 3 | Right that 's , that 's , that 's lovely Ian anyway thanks very much for seeing me this evening erm well as I say I 'll go away and prepare some figures and then I 'll , I 'll see you what , what say Wednesday next week ? |
| 4 | Okay , I think that 's erm a good example , thank you very much for joining us this morning . |
| 5 | She used them for wars , when invading new shores , so for racing they all passed the test . |
| 6 | This is a case of adding injury to insult — it was originally the cat 's job to kill the mice and the rodent-poisoners who usurped its role are not content merely with making it obsolete , but are also assaulting it physically in this underhand , prey-concealed way . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd have to know you a lot better before telling you such things . ’ |
| 8 | Roman kissed her deeply , murmuring comfortingly before taking them both to heights that owed more to heaven than to earth . |
| 9 | ‘ It transpired that the Archdiocese of New York had allowed the state to defame , prosecute and condemn me , not only without offering me any aid , but also keeping from my attorney any information which might have helped me . ’ |
| 10 | The overall length of a longitudinal study may be shortened somewhat by making it semi-longitudinal . |
| 11 | But it will do so by making them explicit , so that in effect techniques become distinguishable from the principles which inform them . |
| 12 | ‘ Those who desire to win the favour of princes generally endeavour to do so by offering them those things which they themselves prize most , or such as they observe the prince to delight in most . ’ |
| 13 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 14 | We you know , I could have got away with giving you seventeen and half percent ! |
| 15 | Instead of arranging flowers immediately after cutting , help them last longer by conditioning them first . |
| 16 | For others the best way might be talking dirty about safer sex , or just by making it clear what you want by your actions . |
| 17 | Mark tells us so much about who Jesus is and what he 's come for just by showing us that one miracle but what I 'm suggesting to you here is that you can look for greater meaning in it , further symbolism . |
| 18 | Under dangerous conditions , his chief concern is for the welfare of the film stock and equipment , whereas mine is more for keeping us both alive … |
| 19 | The fourteenth-century Franciscan William of Ockham went further in declaring it probable that God could make a better world than this . |
| 20 | Indeed , it would be unjustified ( and plain silly ) to strengthen corporate power further by granting them judicial privileges originally formulated to protect relatively powerless individuals . |
| 21 | I 'd also like to thank his parents for what they have contributed over the years to make him the person he is , supporting him through college , and also for making me such a welcome member of their family . |
| 22 | You have not only derived from it the means of raising your subterranean wealth , but those also of rendering it available to the public . ’ |
| 23 | The key question is whether , after decades of exposure to the various ‘ risk factors ’ , it is possible to reduce the frequency of coronary events and the deaths they may cause in men in the highest-risk categories , by altering the way of life of these men , and perhaps also by giving them appropriate drugs . |
| 24 | Since winning their independence in 1949 the government , based in Java , has sought to control its vast domain partly by making it difficult even for Indonesians to travel freely throughout their own country . |
| 25 | My feeling now after driving them all again is that the direction , the aspirations of the range , are as middle of the road as ever . |
| 26 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 27 | Far from rendering them subject to ridicule , such a stress is one of the best ways to hold an audience and gain sympathy . |
| 28 | The new DOS version , PC Works 3.0 , does offer significant enhancements over its predecessor , mainly by making it easier to do a number of commonly required chores . |
| 29 | Manufacturers gain through having their product demonstrated , or even through having it present in a store ( or else they would be unwilling to pay ‘ slotting allowances ’ to supermarkets ) , so that demand is not exogenous to retailing . |
| 30 | Most children reject new foods the first time they are offered , but if your child clearly finds the food disagreeable , even after trying it three or four times , then do n't serve it up again . |