Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I invariably never charge for giving my opinion , which is freely available to those who seek it , and this includes the London auction rooms . |
| 2 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
| 3 | ‘ You know I never really agreed with letting everyone learn to read . |
| 4 | I never really planned on feeding for this long — it just happened . |
| 5 | Yet , in spite of all that , and the old mid-winter recordings within me , that winter — last winter — I never once resorted to glancing up at the pulley with its rope , the exhaust pipe of my car nor even the barrel of my shotgun . |
| 6 | I very carefully refrained from learning French . ’ |
| 7 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 8 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 9 | For someone who so obviously thrives on holding court , Shaun is neither ranting nor railing , the bragging and bullshit which characteristically pepper his interviews are conspicuous by their absence . |
| 10 | One notable later-day Boadicea was Lady Anne Cunningham , a fervent Calvinist who not only succeeded in scaring the English , but also her own son the Marquess of Hamilton when she rode into Berwick with a brace of pistols and daggers at her saddle , at the head of her troop of horse against Charles I. Her attendant women were obliged to become expert markswomen . |
| 11 | Colleagues , I gave you twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve reasons for you not only to support by raising your hands , but by actively supporting your fellow members in their fight to retain the Wages Councils and to guard and protect their wages . |
| 12 | But it is surprising how many works by composers such as Schubert and Beethoven , who probably never dreamed of creating mathematical proportions , have a degree of exactness in the relative length of sections of movements . |
| 13 | When at last it was over she lay back in a sleepy state , as a result of too much gin rather than weakness from the birthing , but she no longer felt like cursing James . |
| 14 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 15 | Liz , who never quite recovered from catching flu in Spain , has cancelled all engagements for the rest of the year . |
| 16 | I realize that is an admission of cowardice , but one of the few consolations of approaching middle age is the fact that one no longer objects to having to admit a weakness . |
| 17 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 18 | Cable breaks are a nuisance because they almost always result in having to retrieve the glider from mid-field . |
| 19 | Certainly it was the largest grossing twelve inch of all time , moving Factory Records into worldwide markets they never even dreamed of reaching . |
| 20 | They never even daydream about undertaking projects . |
| 21 | After all , if modern theology really is so vastly superior , then why do those who preach it so often succeed in emptying their churches ? |
| 22 | The physical contact which He must have had with them when reclining at table ( compare John 13:25 ) and which He obviously never dreamed of disallowing ( Luke 7:38 , 39 ) must have made them feel clean and acceptable ’ ( Nolan 1976:39 ) . |
| 23 | He only just qualified by winning 15-12 in the final game against a West German , Hansi Wiens , and will need to produce something extra today against the most improved Pakistani of the lot , Mir Zaman Gul . |
| 24 | He had never worked hard or regularly , and now he only occasionally felt like working . |
| 25 | He also apparently succeeded in persuading Mr Mobutu to resume delivery of these military supplies to Unita through Zaire . |
| 26 | Its original purpose was to enable us to turn our work so that we could rehang it with the plain side towards us , knit a few rows of reversed stocking stitch and then turn it back again to continue in stocking stitch or pattern . |
| 27 | What is now holding sway in the super-ego is , as it were , a pure culture of the death instincts , and in fact it often enough succeeds in driving the ego into death , if the latter does not fend off its tyrant in time by the change round into mania . |
| 28 | While songs like ‘ Sugar Mamma ’ may not be especially wired the way they used to be , and he no longer sings about getting his sugar ‘ three times a day ’ , John Lee is still alright . |
| 29 | And let us no longer worry about begging questions against the second scenario , and simply say ‘ conventional meaning ’ rather than ‘ constant significance ’ . |