Example sentences of "[pers pn] further [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They give their footballs an enormous kick , trying to boot them further than any football has been booted before . |
| 2 | The unspoken truth lay between the older and younger woman like some tangible wedge , driving them further and further apart . |
| 3 | Why do train travellers and see-ers off always say the most meaningful things to each other just when the train is actually moving off , gathering speed and making them further and further apart ? |
| 4 | So , it 's the enactment or re=enactment of something and the making of the image which is taking them further and further into whatever they need to work on . |
| 5 | John , do n't screw your officers down into a box , because you 're stretching them further and further . |
| 6 | For the first time in her life , she was hurt by the sight of Hong Kong , that beautiful neon city , glittering like a great gaudy Ferris wheel on the edge of China and signifying the absolute end of her dream with Damian , the end of an enclosed world with no past or future , only the sensual present , leading them further and further into pleasure without limit or consequence . |
| 7 | That was when the bravado and drink and adrenalin took me further than I might have wanted to go . |
| 8 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 9 | Standing on top of the world I felt the pull of the cool gold beyond Skye dragging me further and further south , warmer and warmer . |
| 10 | Until now , he has always left me further and further behind when I chased him . |
| 11 | Most shops have at least one windsurfing enthusiast , who should be happy to advise you further since you could become a future customer . |
| 12 | I would n't trust you further than I could throw you — though that 'd be a fair way , you 're flimsy enough . |
| 13 | I just kept going and going , leaving you further and further behind . |
| 14 | The reaction to the discovery , that it would mean that there would be no need of the Icelandic fishing grounds in future , makes it fairly certain that even if there had been accidental sightings of the New World before that date , no systematic attempts had been made to explore it further nor to exploit the resources of the Newfoundland Banks ( 45 , pp.214–16 ) . |
| 15 | Tom then hit his tee-shot in a fury and he struck it further than I go on holidays . |
| 16 | Whilst it was still airborne you gave it an almighty swipe and endeavoured to send it further than your opponent . |
| 17 | Have you got , have you got anything , you know , think we can take it further than that ? |
| 18 | Justin 's experiences has tooken it , taken it further than that which is brilliant , and he can apply those skills straight away . |
| 19 | He took the trouble to work on it further when it was given again the following season , eliminating the somewhat superfluous role of a pastor , for instance , and putting the women into soft shoes instead of point shoes so that the movement looked more natural . |
| 20 | The catamaran was riding light , the wind driving it further and further inland across the coastal strip . |
| 21 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 22 | The latter religion pushed it further and added ‘ Love thine enemies ’ . |
| 23 | Take it further and closely examine the warehouse . |
| 24 | He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it . |
| 25 | And it , it becomes you 'd never actually get the thing printed and you 'd never actually get the thing distributed because you , you , you 're wondering what to put in , what not to put in as it were and sticking to the specifics er at least it 's getting it 's getting something out and I do n't , personally I do n't see any , any real problem in personalizing it further and as much to indicate , right , without obvious prejudice to the new union erm to indicate er in , in some general or specific sense , if that does n't sound like sort of like contradictory , on on the , the , the betterment of , of representation for members within , within Northumberland come unison . |
| 26 | Production is not accelerated by redesigning work downwards in its skill content , by simplifying it further and separating the workers more one from the other , as in the classical modernist organization under Fordism . |
| 27 | Erm Roosevelt was er despite the er rather unusual route to the presidency , really rather a good president but he had a , he had a very particular view of the presidency which was one which he shared with Lincoln but he took up Lincoln 's arguments and , and developed it further and I quote from er Roosevelt 's autobiography , which is rather more revealing than most autobiographies , erm Roosevelt was n't modest I should say in case you , if you wonder when I read you something . |
| 28 | Within the part , a functional analysis may take us further than at higher levels , for smaller units of discourse are more likely to be uni-functional , and transitions from one function to another may correspond to both overtly marked sections of the discourse like section , chapter , and paragraph , and also ( indeed particularly ) to sentences . |
| 29 | The threat of ‘ arrest ’ becomes the threat of fixity , of stabilized forms , whereas the thrust of the novel is to take us further and further away from such stability . |