Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And those bits again , either tuck them in out of the way or better still fold them over and put a big plaster over the top to get them right out the way so no ends are left dangling , remember for most people you 're doing this for they 'll probably be returning to their place of work , okay , so they need to be safe to return to work , everybody okay on that lot ? |
| 2 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | it 's more or less just to say you 've got something |
| 4 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 5 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 6 | She pulled the door back a foot or so then slammed it forward , catching him between the heavy wooden door and the frame . |
| 7 | Its effects are to make women more vulnerable to job loss , to exclude or only inequitably compensate them , and to perpetuate poverty through insufficient payments . |
| 8 | All simple & partly lovely women attract me , & not merely attract me , but I want to be something to them . |
| 9 | But before she could decide whether or not finally to deny it he stopped her in her tracks with another accusation — one that she had definitely not seen coming . |
| 10 | Does the idea of joining the Stamp Bug Club , interest you a lot , interest you a little or not really interest you at all ? |
| 11 | Call it yearning , or more realistically call it leching or lusting . |
| 12 | Simply handling them causes 1 dose to be absorbed through the skin , counting them ( or similarly continuously handling them ) causes 1 dose per Turn to be absorbed . |
| 13 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 14 | This is done to allow them time to come back gradually to a state of full alertness without any sense of shock — but it would be just as effective if I were to snap my fingers or even simply to tell them to ‘ wake up ’ . |
| 15 | He decided to write home asking his mother how everything was back at Gibbet Hall and if she could come to visit him , or even better take him away . |
| 16 | In the end he gave up trying to analyse his own feelings , or even totally understand them , and lay there relaxed , listening for the slow , regular breathing of sleep , and was n't sure if he detected it or not — The door opened briefly at one point and a young man 's voice said " Shit , " but Graham did n't even turn to look ; he knew it could be nothing which would disturb them . |
| 17 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 18 | Have a go and I 'll come back in an hour and a half and , well what the work study man wanted you see , was to define whether his assessments were reasonably correct or indeed absolutely correct you know , or whether they were too loose . |
| 19 | If you leave it till later he wo n't forgive you , or maybe even believe you , if you have to expend soldiers on something he does n't think necessary . ’ |
| 20 | How old was she when she died , or how long had you had her ? |
| 21 | It does n't matter how wet you may be , or how much lube you use , by the time you get going most of the moisture has gone . |
| 22 | The chart , either printed before the government 's name change or else blithely ignoring it , noted the existence of a 2500-foot paved airstrip . |
| 23 | The good news is that , while some items will probably take a heftier slice of your budget , others will certainly be cheaper or no longer cost you anything at all . |
| 24 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 25 | They urged the EC to extend the generalized system of preferences ( GSP ) to a range of products from the region , and thereby effectively to allow them duty-free entry to the European market . |
| 26 | These facts escaped the attention of our radical sisters and thereby so did we . |
| 27 | My middle daughter , Lal , sweetly and most touchingly offered me one of her kidneys , an offer I declined as decorously as I could . |
| 28 | If you are interested in coming to our University we shall be very glad to find a place for you if we can , and most certainly to welcome you if you are admitted . |
| 29 | This he was stupid to assume as they refuse to put up with this strain on their own households and rather cruelly send him fleeing out to face the hard elements in the stormy night . |
| 30 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |