Example sentences of "[det] and [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , striptease is analysed as a statement that moves towards one thing ( sex and evil ) only to contradict this and move immediately away . |
| 2 | I 'll try to make it brief because Bob has er mentioned this and has pretty well er all party support to , to the savings , er the reduction of two percent in the erm , it 's not quite devastating but following the er drastic restructuring of the , of the department in the last two or three years , is quite significant erm er I , I , and I think that er we must thank the , the director of and , and er volunteering if you like because in 's report erm th , th , these , erm the , the savings . |
| 3 | There was a central spindle on the tyring platform , and the wheel was put over this and clamped down so that it would n't spring . |
| 4 | Nobody could possibly offer a definite answer to this and say how long it may take to fully overcome anxiety and stress problems . |
| 5 | Cut the watermelon in half and scoop away as many black seeds as possible from the flesh . |
| 6 | Reference to the law of treaties is , of course , irrelevant in this context , since this is the international law which binds only one Government to another and does not therefore commit a country to a constitutional or legislative change , as does the Treaty of Rome . |
| 7 | It was as if a couple of animals hounded from one burrow , nest or lair had im-mediately taken possession of another and started up just where they had left off . |
| 8 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 9 | Some young men never have really thought about personal hygiene very much and react very badly if the subject is mentioned . |
| 10 | The horse 's muscular control over its top lip is very precise , which is why the top lip can do so much and reveal so much : it can function like a thumbless hand , and sort and select preferred plants in the horse 's pasture , as well as reveal unrelated emotions with such dissimilar faces as those of anxiety and the Flehman posture . |
| 11 | And he remembered Isaac 's story about the man who thought too much and smiled once more . |
| 12 | Cocaine is a very nasty drug , causing people to talk too much and to stay up too late , but it does not , in my experience , make you violent . |
| 13 | Sam brought them out a coke and a bag of crisps each and went back inside . |
| 14 | Season each half with salt and freshly-ground black pepper , put a quarter of a bay leaf on each and roll up tightly . |
| 15 | I like that and get on well with them — on both sides of the border in fact — and that is all I require . |
| 16 | You can make that and put down as much as you want and then you roll the dice . |
| 17 | It 's no use doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and getting absolutely nowhere , because you 'll get the two finger job . |
| 18 | And anyway I 'm going to leave that on one side now because it 's more erm a problem to reconciling Mill 's views about liberty with his views about a proper government rather than directly about governments , so I 'm just going to note that and move on now . |
| 19 | So if anybody you know did that and has n't yet repaid them I would strongly advise you to do that . |
| 20 | He had n't meant to lose control like that and did n't really know why he had . |
| 21 | Right , you may troop by that and look down there , notice I was n't wearing the goggles that was naughty of me was n't it ? |
| 22 | Now they can reject these and look back more objectively at the implicitly racist atmosphere of their primary school days . |
| 23 | Poor old Turkey Lurkie saw it all and rushed round here to warn the rest of us . ’ |
| 24 | Retail Runner is also seeking to graduate from an impressive success on that Ascot card , having made all and jumped particularly well . |
| 25 | ‘ It does n't matter whether the customer wants to buy a bus ticket or round the world cruise , ’ says managing director William Shaw , ‘ we offer a complete service to all and do n't just concentrate on packages . ’ |
| 26 | They gave me no encouragement at all and did n't even realize I was so into football . |
| 27 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 28 | We seek to enable the Philippines to spend less and earn rather more . |
| 29 | Automatic Teller Machine ( ATM ) cards , or other forms of plastic which may already be in your pocket , cost less and serve just as well , provided you do not stray too far from the beaten track . |
| 30 | But the doctor said that when I recovered I would have to practise less and go out more often . |