Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 2 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 3 | It does n't seem fair that women put in just as much effort , dedication and time as men , and are still treated in a second-class fashion . |
| 4 | And , generally speaking do twice as much work , put in twice as much effort and just to prove they 're as good ! |
| 5 | The most unprofitable services were singled out as ‘ stopping trains ’ , which made enormous losses and cost almost twice as much to run as revenue received from them . |
| 6 | I think I think we give away far too many free tickets |
| 7 | He recommends that you add up approximately how many tokens you think your child will earn in a typical day if he/she does the little chores you require and behaves in the manner you are trying to encourage . |
| 8 | You know all too well that other days had their heavy toll indeed . |
| 9 | Of course , both police and military prefer to achieve their ends without the use of coercion , and some succeed in this far more than others . |
| 10 | In other words , if you have a sixth form in a school you get so much so many thousands of pounds because you 've got a sixth form . |
| 11 | They 're very good actors , know just exactly how much agony to put into it and so on . |
| 12 | None o' the farmers had thought about having their horses roughed , and they set off extra early that morning to go to the Christmas market . |
| 13 | And you come back again and you get out again about half past nine , ten o'clock . |
| 14 | It was : ’ Hard lines if you ca n't understand it : you get back only so much . ’ |
| 15 | And I know very well how much you love them all — especially the old rogue Abuelo Freitas . |
| 16 | ‘ You know very well how many times I 've asked to see you , speak to you . |
| 17 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 18 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 19 | Confining the analysis to the children , we find that the younger children produce almost twice as many inadequate messages as the older children . |
| 20 | Do n't tell us your secrets Graham we do n't deserve to know them , oh go on then so these are only your R S I dates are n't they ? |
| 21 | Go on then how many words have you got ? |
| 22 | Shoulds and oughts end in far too many impotent and guilty middle-class men writhing around hopelessly in the beds of friends and strangers . |
| 23 | And there will be another hundred and twenty go in today so that 's six hundred and six hundred and seventy in there at the moment . |
| 24 | well they do n't really so much today , people |
| 25 | I too agree that far too many dealers have the attitude that you describe but I can understand why . |
| 26 | Lancing , who surprised themselves and everyone else by making their first appearance in the Halford Hewitt Cup final against the winners , Shrewsbury , last April , will raise a few more eyebrows if they do half as well this time . |
| 27 | Come on then how many , er just |
| 28 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 29 | Although you may select a borrowing limit of £3,000 , for example , there is no compulsion for you to withdraw that amount at once , or at all — you take out just as much as you want . |
| 30 | Er you take out alright just that and lea keep that in I 've just got |