Example sentences of "thing [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player . |
| 2 | Erm well the things I have to do are basically all the things listed on here still . |
| 3 | Eventually things got cool enough for the protons and neutrons to fuse and form atomic nuclei ; later still it was possible for electrons to cling to the nuclei , thus creating atoms . |
| 4 | Things change so fast . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect that to be the same this time , but a fortnight away from Russia is a long time and things change so quickly , ’ said the bespectacled runner . |
| 6 | The Germans were more interested at that time in hunting Communists , but later came the Gestapo and then things became much more dangerous . |
| 7 | If you had stood as I have done for five hours in a draughty ante-room of a courthouse sticking sixpences into one of those things to see how frequently it paid out , you would n't be so keen to chuck your money away , son . |
| 8 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 9 | ‘ But that does n't mean I want things to go any further , Luke . |
| 10 | Things moved more dramatically among descendants of the coelurosaurs . |
| 11 | Things moved terribly fast during the war . |
| 12 | You see how well things grow up here ; you see the size of the corn . |
| 13 | At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains . |
| 14 | But such things fly so flagrantly in the face of known history , so flagrantly in the face of human experience , so flagrantly in the face of simple probability , that they impose an inordinate strain upon credulity . |
| 15 | There 's quite a lot of things happening on there , we never have it on , but I have had it on and there now , they say so and so 's got something for sale or |
| 16 | Correspondingly there may be output demands created by control operations which result in things happening too quickly or unexpectedly . |
| 17 | Cos I 'm a bit worried we got ta get things sorted out so I rang I said I did n't to get onto you , she said no I know how they feel she said her granddad always do things like that . |
| 18 | They could have as many fish tanks as they wanted , so things came right again . |
| 19 | Either things came out too harshly , heavy , muddy and dull — Mauve called it his ‘ yellow-soap style ’ — or else the tenderness was n't tender enough . |
| 20 | ‘ We are expecting things to pick up generally , ’ he says . |
| 21 | I told him that we had but that we 'd talked about it with them and now things seemed all right . |
| 22 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 23 | At Leicester , twenty miles away , with much the same kind of industrial and population history , things happened quite differently . |
| 24 | Would it not be a good idea , given the suggestion that all these shady capitalist things happen on only one side of the House , to discuss pension funds and how they are to be controlled ? |
| 25 | ‘ Strange things happen round here . |
| 26 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 27 | However , as soon as they remove the weather-vane , several things happen very rapidly . |
| 28 | I 'm hoping someone will find it worth while having a proper inspection but these things pop up everywhere when the land is so dry . |
| 29 | It may seem over the top , but that 's because such things seem so much more terrible to a child . ’ |
| 30 | Some dead things seem more horribly alive . |