Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously you get more used to it the more often you do it , but it 's still pretty gross . |
| 2 | He 'd been damned rude to her the night before , not to say insulting . |
| 3 | People often turn from fiction to biography as they get older , I expect because the real world comes to seem more mysterious and more valuable to them the closer they come to leaving it . |
| 4 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , he was rather offensive to me the other day . ’ |
| 6 | But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way . |