Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one wanted to know , unless they could get rewrites where everyone lived happily ever after and stars of The Cosby Show had the lead roles . |
| 2 | Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design . |
| 3 | We 've all been overtaken by someone going too fast and too close to the vehicle in front . ’ |
| 4 | Make sure someone stays near so that if your child is sick , he or she can be prevented from inhaling vomit . |
| 5 | Nothing came along immediately and ahead were a couple of lean years . |
| 6 | ‘ My guess — it 's no more than that — is that somebody came around earlier and told Mrs Tanner that there 'd be a couple of hundred quid in it for her if you showed up . |
| 7 | Nobody speaks as well as you do . ’ |
| 8 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 9 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 10 | In the modern world the reasons for wanting to remember dreams have changed — nobody believes any more that an appropriate dream will cure physical illness , or perhaps predict the future . |
| 11 | Instinctively , Martin Luther laid stress on the old Latin proverb , ‘ Nothing ages more quickly than gratitude . ’ |
| 12 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 13 | See that no-one gets any further than the hall . |
| 14 | Anyway there 's been nothing to regret as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 15 | And this is what distinguishes the reading of literature from the reading of philosophy which requires that one understands as fully as possible what is meant , and where it is assumed that the writing will illustrate the meaning in a direct and immediate way . |
| 16 | Okay , last one it only goes up when you are claiming , this one goes up even when you 're not . |
| 17 | But I do not believe that one goes as far as going to the figure that the County Council is proposing . |
| 18 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 19 | Sometimes it has been a case of seeing something done really well and it inspires us to do it even better . |
| 20 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 21 | I spent a good while asking for something written down so that I could see what I was and was n't supposed to do , but that was a forlorn hope . |
| 22 | However , one came in soon and asked her how she felt . |
| 23 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 24 | In Gloucester in 1831 all three candidates adopted an antislavery stance as a result of being questioned , one going so far as to have ‘ cards in his constituent hats with ‘ No Slavery ’ printed up on them ’ . |
| 25 | Some of the delayed motorists were distinctly lacking in respect , one going as far as to say that if he were going to get buried he 'd have a bit more consideration for other road users . |
| 26 | I 've got a shattered arm as well which means that I can really use only one arm , but I have to keep the muscles in the other one going as far as I can . ’ |
| 27 | Everything happened so quickly that I have no very clear recollection of what actually took place . |
| 28 | ‘ Everything happened so rapidly that it afterwards seemed part of an evil dream , ’ Edward said slowly . |
| 29 | Everything happened very quickly after he had got Maisie back to the house . |
| 30 | ‘ Everything collapsed so quickly but things can change for the better in just as short a space a time . |