Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will always be someone only too eager to criticise your progress . |
| 2 | Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal . |
| 3 | At the same time I could hear someone tapping frantically on the glass door of the kiosk , someone far too anxious to clamber in with me . |
| 4 | As he raised a curious eyebrow she elaborated with satisfaction , ‘ I can think of someone far more likely to have put a torch to G.W. Fashions than myself . ’ |
| 5 | The cake I had eaten ( thoughtfully , and in the true spirit ) had been meant for someone no longer able to make cake for herself ; the apple for someone who no longer had a garden . |
| 6 | I thought we 're gon na so we came out of Paul 's place , behind Belmont Parade , up past the ponds there and that 's and I 'm knackered , I 'm going up river , had no you start at the bottom of Belmont Parade , up those ponds up to the traffic lights where you change buses , that 's all up hill and it 's slow , and you 've just started and you 're not warm and it 's like running out of here , running up that hill there , now you could run up that hill if you got , if you had sort of round a couple of times round nice , no one so more ready to go , you 'd run up there , you come out of here , run down here , not warm , feel you get , well I come out of there and , and you get , you go up past that set of traffic lights , you go up and you 're still struggling past The Bull , that 's still up hill , you get to the , just round that bend and it starts dropping down , and it 's a gradual drop down , below the roundabout and the next roundabout 's pretty level there , not too bad a roundabout , right the way across to Scades Hill , went down Scades Hill , right the way down to Alton , bottom of Alton high street , came out by the toilets at White Hart to High Street , up to house . |
| 7 | They are nice little letters , this one just as hard to understand |
| 8 | But what they have in common is something both blindingly simple to name and blindingly difficult to think about . |
| 9 | If his mind was too restless to maintain any hold on the spiritual , then did n't he have something far more immediate to face up to rather than to be wallowing in daily bouts of nostalgia ? |
| 10 | This is an important point and one now increasingly difficult to see . |
| 11 | But there were clients to consider and — damnation ! — there was something even more serious to consider . |
| 12 | But I knew I had become involved in something too uniquely bizarre to miss , or to spoil , through lack of patience or humour . |
| 13 | She could not think of anything even remotely polite to say . |
| 14 | Which would be fine if she could think of anything even remotely amusing to say , she thought wryly . |