Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 2 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 3 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 4 | No , the two pro , the thing that the two prongs sit in is cracked so naturally say it had to go into a hole that size , right ? |
| 5 | They might have fared more comfortably had they sailed a longer journey — from Kingsburgh up to Waternish point , a journey which would then have taken them directly down into Loch Dunvegan — although local people told me the weather here can come up very quickly , and perhaps Allan Macdonald 's boat was not adequately large . |
| 6 | Her mouth felt suddenly dry and her lips parted just sufficiently to allow her tongue to moisten their parched surface . |
| 7 | When you have done so please sign it and return it to me immediately in the pre-paid envelope provided . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Hong Kong 's flora and fauna are basically that of neighbouring China , though some islands must have been separated long enough to produce their own endemic species . |
| 9 | I 'd have done better just believing everything I was taught when I was young ! |
| 10 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 11 | ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . ) |
| 12 | Maxim half turned away then decided he 'd better say his piece anyway . |
| 13 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
| 14 | At the time of the Agadir crisis , he had declared bombastically that it was ‘ high time this insolent clique in Paris should be made once more to feel what a Pomeranian Grenadier can do ’ He edited a book for children , entitled ‘ Germany in Arms ’ , glorifying war , and was fond of speaking to German youth about the forthcoming ‘ happy — cheerful war ’ whatever that meant . |
| 15 | she has n't moved far then has she ? |
| 16 | I cou , I would of said well right tell them |
| 17 | Well if it 's to do with anything you 've seen here please make it in the right quarters not at me . |
| 18 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 19 | He said he would have done considerably better had he been granted anything approaching equal access to the media and had tricks not been played against him . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've done very well to reach your present level . |
| 21 | ‘ We have n't done very well have we ? ’ |
| 22 | The informal interview can not generally be used to test hypotheses very accurately , but it can be used most fruitfully to clarify them and to elaborate them . |
| 23 | ‘ I guess I 've had long enough to accept it . |
| 24 | The truth is , I have had only enough to permit me to drown my sorrows . ’ |
| 25 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 26 | Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime ! |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been told once more to mind my own business . |
| 28 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 29 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |
| 30 | You 're not having it cut , ai n't got that long has he ? |