Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But Melody had her face turned up to him eagerly and he remembered other details of Boz 's wedding night party : his meeting with Melody 's mother and the small , shabby tent that was her home . |
2 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
3 | Look at a crime closely enough and everything becomes significant . |
4 | ‘ Let's go back , I think we 've gone far enough and it looks dark and spooky . ’ |
5 | They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before . |
6 | She rocked him gently and he nestled close and put his thumb in his mouth . |
7 | He spoke Maa fluently and he had unrivalled connections . |
8 | Someone behind them coughed pointedly and they went quiet but Sally was wishing she could shout to the whole room : ‘ That 's my sister ! ’ |
9 | Right there 's enough parcels to make a nice little round so and she does that round . |
10 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
11 | Yes , I think is probably so and I think this is what we have got to do with girls . |
12 | So on , for example , the fifteenth of that particular month , er , I 'm in Manchester for the day , I have one meeting at ten o'clock and I have another meeting at three thirty . |
13 | Wycliffe 's pipe was drawing nicely and he sat relaxed , as though he might stay indefinitely . |
14 | Funny enough , Peter and I have both been swimming together and we 've both got the same thing |
15 | you know er what in the bible says and er to get together for God put a woman and a man together and they become one flesh you read it , you think you understand what it is , but you do n't really understand until you lose your partner |
16 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
17 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
18 | His teeth were gritted together and he had dark circles under his eyes . |
19 | It was a very hard job holding everything together and it required tremendous dedication from everyone concerned . |
20 | It it seems to me we 've spent about an hour and ten minutes or so almost shadow boxing over this particular policy erm and we we keep running into well running both matters together and it seems right and proper that we should do that . |
21 | So something that you had to multiply by itself and get five of them all multiplied together and it equals two . |
22 | ‘ Now we have the chance to play together and I believe this will be a wonderful occasion . ’ |
23 | But the two struggles , for national liberation and against patriarchy , have to go together and I think that 's what went wrong in Ireland , when we got our pseudo independence . |
24 | Safrane has been designed around an extremely rigid and safe bodyshell , featuring a platform in which the engine is installed transversely and which carries front and rear subframes to ease installation of different mechanical units such as suspension arms . |
25 | This result was particularly striking when junctions were considered individually and it became clear that this relationship was at least partly independent of the amount of time spent at the junction , number of vehicles seen and the judgment of estimated risk made at the same time . |
26 | There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues . |
27 | Heather Goodchild , entertainment analyst at credit ratings agency Standard & Poor 's , said yesterday : ‘ MGM 's films just are n't working , their debts are running away and they have major problems in their corporate structure . ’ |
28 | He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’ |
29 | Accordingly I went ahead and circulated all potential volunteers with a call for the weekends of June 12-13 and June 19-20 , which at the time was two months away and I assumed this would allow enough time for SNH approval to come through . |
30 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |