Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was incredibly strong and she closed her legs around him , driven by some instinct to try and pull him deeper within her . |
| 2 | It was dead right but it gave me a tough act to follow and only Joyce 's famous ‘ George , do n't do that ’ would fit the bill . |
| 3 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 4 | I grew a little apprehensive when she informed me that I would see witches and some ugly things , after which I would see my grandfather and other long-dead relatives . |
| 5 | I was most upset when I saw it . |
| 6 | Apart from the distressing nature of the problem itself , Eileen was most upset because she felt it was ruining her whole life . |
| 7 | I know it looks rather exaggerated but I wanted them back without a lot of questions . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , I think that this erm , part of the agenda is most interesting because I think it 's other departments which also report back to the policy resources , which really , we as a erm , council do n't get much chance to see it 's doing . |
| 9 | Doctor Who got so incredibly popular that you found your weekends were no longer free either . |
| 10 | Ya , I I , I 'm only sorry that you felt you |
| 11 | Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance . |
| 12 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 13 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 14 | ‘ It was so strong that they hit my March 1994 revenue estimate . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He 's so strong that nothing stops him , ’ commented his trainer , Lucy Wadham . |
| 16 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 17 | The memory was so strong that he lost himself in it . |
| 18 | Her own awareness of him was so strong that she felt she could have tracked him anywhere , just by the dizzying sensation of his presence . |
| 19 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 20 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 21 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 22 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 23 | There was no flat black Córdoba hat , but it was the same man and Maggie felt an almost bitter rush of disappointment , so strong that it took her by surprise . |
| 24 | At the start of the contact the need to be stroked is so strong that it suppresses their fear . |
| 25 | As it was , confidence was so low that nobody fancied it . |
| 26 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 27 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 28 | It would be much simpler if you obeyed them . ’ |
| 29 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 30 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |