Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kegan says they 're driving him mad already and he wants me there right away to talk to some bloody newspaper people . |
| 2 | Nobody rings me up that late . ’ |
| 3 | This pattern manifests itself even more clearly in the detail of courses . |
| 4 | But it just manifests itself very very rarely . |
| 5 | Exercise tones you up all over and as well as making you feel fresher and fitter , it helps you to sleep better . |
| 6 | So has anyone out there actually done it ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll have given it for someone else who needs it just as badly , ’ Belinda finished for him . |
| 8 | It 's at once surreal and introspective , bizarre and brave , but never loses the sense of suspicion which holds it together so chillingly . |
| 9 | and you know the things he gets up to , he , well there 's two burglars trying to get into the house , well , he shoots , he shoots them down there both got their little pop guns and that and he , and he flings irons at them and that and , and marbles and ee , ee , you know , then the mother realizes like when she 's on the plane that she 's left her son at home er , the , the film 's , the film 's good , do n't you feel like anything like that ? |
| 10 | And the man behind the scenes says its not always alright on the night . |
| 11 | Well it says it on there somewhere . |
| 12 | Although the term censorship is usually applied to instances of government interference in programme making , Brittan uses it much more broadly to include such structural and institutional constraints as the IBA 's power to withdraw franchises and its right to vet schedules and programmes . |
| 13 | Given that N. Langsdorfii could be a perennial in a mild winter and that it seeds itself even more freely , this could go from being a rarity to a ‘ pernicious weed ’ in record time . |
| 14 | Er , no , there 's Joanna one of the girls I look after and er Rebecca who lives next door to me , erm some friends of ours years ago were going to , were thinking of buying it , it was about five thousand pounds then , so it shows ya how long ago it is |
| 15 | ‘ Just shows you how much more important I am than them , does n't it ? ’ she laughed . |
| 16 | This differential element in literary history marks it off quite radically from previous accounts of the historical dimension in literature . |
| 17 | They still drive her up the wall — and no one acts it out quite as well as Kirstie . |
| 18 | Heres , for example ( in , " the greedy clutches of your heir " ) , denotes something perhaps rather less cosy and familial than the English word " heir " ; in many contexts it suggests nothing more than a legal designate with a contractual , post-obituary option on some hapless benefactor 's goods and chattels.5 Pietas is a notoriously difficult word to render , " piety " being the last recourse of the weary translator ; it involves " integrity " , " probity " , " purity " , " fidelity " , " devotion " , " decency " — a complex of related moral attributes which Romans sought and recognised in the upright man . |
| 19 | ‘ Latterly that takes me there quite often enough for a member of the Church of England , let alone an atheist . |
| 20 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 21 | Perhaps county cricket takes itself too seriously now for Robinson to want to be a part of . |
| 22 | Choose the tack which takes you most directly offshore and when you 're clear , and only then , it 's time to worry about the technique by getting the daggerboard the rest of the way down and sailing efficiently . |
| 23 | Speed keeps you up there longer — five hours , maybe more . |
| 24 | He keeps it up pretty decently , considering , but it 's all done on a shoe-string , it has practically to pay for itself . |
| 25 | He takes it very seriously too . ’ |
| 26 | Saddam 's War takes us up as far as the back-end of last year , but the core of the book is concerned with Saddam 's rise to power and his success in surviving the Iran-Iraq War and turning Iraq into the most heavily armed state in the Arab world . |
| 27 | That takes us very far away from the little local Scottish drama ; and it is in this context that Mary 's reign should be understood . |
| 28 | She pulls it down anyway more than that |
| 29 | Why , what annoys me out here right , every other ooh a lot of the areas are on bloody nine day fortnight . |
| 30 | It tells you just about how much organic matter is present . |