Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barak instinctively stuffed them back into his pocket then rubbed his hands together nervously . |
| 2 | The mere existence of national , sexual and racial oppression does not refute historical materialism , but rather constitutes its explanandum . |
| 3 | It is , of course , at least as much development as exposition , and the Hagen very properly repeat it , then intelligently pressing the music forward in a constant increase in intensity ( with the major-key suggestions throwing that into strong relief ) right the way through the movement . |
| 4 | The Cotton Twist Company rarely sacked anyone if they could wear them out first . |
| 5 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 6 | The Muslim 's bird slowly righted itself , got unsteadily to its feet , then limped off through the legs of the crowd . |
| 7 | Our vet says we will know if the melanomas spread internally as the mane will lose condition very quickly and in the meantime keep on using her as if nothing is wrong . |
| 8 | Worse , she had been prepared to let him go on using her , had he chosen to do so . |
| 9 | But you 're having because I think if we are going to carry on using them , these absences should be translated into suspensions , and if that there 's any problem we do know that situation pertains . |
| 10 | ‘ He should carry on if he wants to and I for one will go on using him — he 's the best ! ’ |
| 11 | We have two sorts of customers — those who are happy with DOS and want to carry on using it , and those who eventually want to move to Windows . |
| 12 | But do n't forget that you can keep on using your FlexiLoan until you reach your borrowing limit . |
| 13 | And they do n't really want to go on using you as a a sort of prop , because I mean you ca n't afford that because you 've got lots of other clients and you , you know really the aim is to try and get them back to self-sufficiency . |
| 14 | The concept of the ‘ independent ’ director , though arguably reflecting what non-executives should always have been , is a new one . |
| 15 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 16 | If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble . |
| 17 | The CECOS surveyors make it clear that the drinking problem which most concerned them and was undoubtedly of serious proportions in their sample , was by no means confined to men ( indeed their condemnations of drinking mothers are particularly sharp ) but one can certainly detect a mainly female temperance counter-current in the survey , apparently connected to religious observance.21 ( A male informant remembered during the inter-war period " a lady keyboard operator [ who ] used to get out her Bible and have a wee read " , at idle moments . ) |
| 18 | And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’ |
| 19 | Her words were ringing in her ears as she eventually made her way through Customs . |
| 20 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 21 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 22 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |
| 23 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 24 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
| 25 | We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau . |
| 26 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 27 | In spite of his frustrations , though , he fell in love with the country and eventually made his home in Jerusalem . |
| 28 | Created by Alex Raymond in the 1930's Flash eventually made his way onto the Commodore with a little help from Mastertronic Added Dimension , a budget house set up by Mastertronic . |
| 29 | Shafts of piercing sunlight slowly push their curious fingers through the dusty waters as far down as they will go . |
| 30 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |