Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [pron] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 2 | As we all know now the group was formed to save it from extinction and now ‘ Duke ’ is happily not only still with us but thriving . |
| 3 | And they do for 5–10 minutes , then he speaks out of the silence , ‘ and I know what he is saying is of the Holy Spirit — it resonates so clearly in me and rings true ’ . |
| 4 | The most important thing is that you 're in danger of not being able to ask the nasty questions because the family are all so lovely and you get on so well with them and do n't want to ask impertinent questions . ’ |
| 5 | Before she could make another move , his mouth covered hers and he gathered her so tightly to him that making any move was impossible . |
| 6 | He went in ahead of her and tried the lights ; they flickered once , but he seemed to know what to do because he went inside and Sandy heard him thump something , and then all the lights came on . |
| 7 | In none of these cases can the inanimate subject of help be conceived as relaxing , coming round , getting in ahead of someone or discharging duties . |
| 8 | As he lay face down on the grass of the hollow , Melody , who had also consumed a considerable amount of drink , sat down heavily beside him and spoke to herself . |
| 9 | Forty-eight hours from now , she thought , staring at her pale reflection in the mirror , Anne Hammond would have been given the miracle of the chance of a new lease of life , while her own future seemed to stretch emptily ahead with nothing but work to fill it . |
| 10 | if the manager is helpful , facilitating , receptive to ideas and able to plan , people not only like it but respond to it |
| 11 | Certainly something was banging away painfully inside her and causing her trouble in breathing . |
| 12 | Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’ |
| 13 | He obviously possessed great talents , though he perhaps thought more highly of them than did others ; and he also had a unique capacity for arousing antagonisms and hatred . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got to help with the meal , ’ Jenna said uneasily , moving rapidly away from him and searching for her comb . |
| 15 | Plummer poured himself another drink , pulled his monogrammed housecoat more tightly around him and paced the sitting room slowly , glancing around at the expensive furnishings and ornaments which filled the flat . |
| 16 | The car drew up slowly behind me and stopped . |
| 17 | This is an interesting question and there is probably more to it than meets the eye . |
| 18 | She was still undecided when Officer Hassan came out of the house , marched straight across to her and saluted . |
| 19 | Laura yawned , cuddling up closer to him and pressing her cheek into the curve of his shoulder . |
| 20 | And Caroline , who had never developed the art of flirting , behaved as if it came as naturally to her as breathing . |
| 21 | Lisa swung angrily away from him and stepped towards her battered Mini . |
| 22 | Polly grinned back confidently at him and thumped her tail . |
| 23 | Listen well when he tells us what happened out there to him and respect him for what he has done , and honour him , for at least he has given each of us hope and proof that escape is possible . ’ |
| 24 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 25 | He said I 'm going out again with him and gon na get you , you and dad 's cigarettes and |
| 26 | Spectacles are not allowed , so if you ca n't see well enough without them but want to compete anyway you should either get a pair of soft contact lenses or see how you manage without glasses . |
| 27 | With Labour now likely to bury their tax madness in their charge to the right , the Tories have to stay well ahead of them and consolidate their position as the party committed to cutting public waste and bringing down tax rates . |
| 28 | In the end it was David who spoke first , drawing her even closer to him and pulling the duvet round them both . |
| 29 | Which all went to prove how totally wrong she could be when in the next instant Ven swung abruptly away from her and informed her coolly , ‘ I 've an engagement this evening . |
| 30 | There the dread chondria is equated quite explicitly with something that bothers medical undergraduates . |