Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Drink had made George sentimental and he turned his mouth down lugubriously as he remembered his steady and the down payment on the furniture . |
| 32 | She was shaking all over but she held her ground . |
| 33 | His face was flushed , his eyes glinting with excitement ; he seemed to be having difficulty breathing , too , and he spoke so rapidly that he slurred his words . |
| 34 | Tories remained fiercely critical of Whig arguments about popular sovereignty , and tended to argue that the people would be better off if they accepted their place in society and allowed the Tory elite to attend to their welfare . |
| 35 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 36 | They did so impeccably and I believe their judgement was a judgement reached in accordance with the rules laid down by Parliament ’ Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind on the handling of the port sale to Teesside Holdings . |
| 37 | It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic . |
| 38 | It was only much later that I remembered my speech had been more or less word for word something my dad had said to me once . |
| 39 | The primal father of the horde is masterful , self-confident , independent and absolutely narcissistic ; other people are loved only in so far as they serve his needs . |
| 40 | Ministers of the Crown will no longer be responsible for the internal workings of such organisations , accept in so far as they fulfil their contractual obligations . |
| 41 | Yet , in so far as it constituted his baptism as a politician , it is crucial to an understanding of his political career . |
| 42 | While it is certain that it was always possible to approach Napoleon III via a courtier , the real intermediaries between the Emperor and the outside world , in so far as it necessitated his personal intervention , were those employed in what was called the Civil Cabinet . |
| 43 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 44 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 45 | So far as I know my disappearance was never discovered by the authorities . |
| 46 | In spite of herself she stirred so sharply that he felt her astonishment recoil upon his own flesh and set him trembling . |
| 47 | He was looking at her so intently that she closed her eyes again . |
| 48 | The world , apparently , did not feel its shame so strongly that it moved its hand to its wallet . |
| 49 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 50 | Now he has time on his hands to reflect on a career which started so promisingly when he made his Worcestershire debut while still at Malvern College in 1982 , but never lived up to those aforementioned expectations simply because of injury . |
| 51 | He was handed his first full England cap against France in February and shut out Eric Cantona so comprehensively that he held his place for the European Championship finals . |
| 52 | Her prodigious roarings and weepings would be licensed in her mind by the examples of St Mary of Oignies ( whose book she had heard in an English translation ) , St Bonaventure , St Elizabeth of Hungary and an unnamed priest she had heard of who wept ‘ so wonderfully that he wetted his vestment ’ . |
| 53 | His wretched heart began to pump ominously again and he closed his eyes for one second , tried to breathe slowly , tried to control himself . |
| 54 | She shook her head so violently that it hurt her neck . |
| 55 | She whispered his name rather desperately and he caught her mouth with his , his lips hardening to demanding pressure when she made no move to resist . |
| 56 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 57 | He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council . |
| 58 | Mrs. Steed died not long after she signed her statement on 16 December 1985 . |
| 59 | It was not long before I started my next voyage , on 7th September , 1710 , as captain of my own ship this time . |
| 60 | 2 I think she 's glad to see me , not just because I give her treat food , but because she 's lonely . |