Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I think you 'd all better go out to the playground and amuse yourselves until the next lesson . ’
2 Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog
3 ‘ I 'm fine , ’ said Henry , ‘ but this means I 'd better just pop out for a second . ’
4 Only they will probably both know that these must not include anything too worrying or controversial , which could create the type of tension and anxiety that can so easily build up in the elderly , particularly in the many who suffer from circulatory troubles , or who have a naturally anxious personality which has become even more vulnerable with age .
5 This effectively risks a breakdown in the Co-operative Principle ( CP ) , though the CP can only really break down by a reader stopping reading .
6 However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off .
7 But remember , sugar does not only come out of a packet .
8 Either that , or he could waylay one of the match officials and help run the line where he could not only point out to the referee the error of his ways but also use a brightly-coloured flag to do so .
9 As a result , more than three-quarters of its considerable rainfall does not easily run off to the sea .
10 The Kenyan government could not believe the duty-free photographic chain would not somehow leak out into the economy .
11 Of course , we can not just get out of the routines and struggles and problems we are already engaged in .
12 We ca n't not ever go down to the beach again , or to the spinney . "
13 ( Yet again it must be said — an argument which does not directly arise out of a golden thread approach but which is pertinent here — the two passages in the new testament which speak of women 's subordination both rely on the Genesis account of creation and fall , an account no longer valid in a post-Darwinian age . )
14 Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life .
15 Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience .
16 If the results did not always work out in the way intended , the blame for the failings of the criminal justice system can not be attributed to any lack of zeal to legislate .
17 Rarely did any Tiller Girl stand out in a glamorous way but stunning was always the word used to describe Violet Bryant nicknamed Ginger because of her glorious red hair , she could not possibly blend in with the others .
18 I think we 'll , we 'll just about move on to the next paragraph please , is that you lot Paul .
19 By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps .
20 You can just about cling on to the periphery of things if you 're in Bristol , but once you 're past there forget it .
21 Because , while she could just about put up with the attitude of Lady Wyndham towards herself , there was no way she was prepared to let the beastly old woman be unkind to the children .
22 Let us assume that you have reached the point in your synspilums ' development where you are setting up their permanent breeding quarters , probably using a 60″ × 18″ × 18″ tank or larger ; you might just about scrape by with a 48″ , but this is not really recommended .
23 He kept his head a little bent and did not really look up at the Curator .
24 But you can not simply opt out of the issue altogether , no matter who you are : whatever choice you make in this area will have a meaning and give a signal .
25 Because the body is deep it means the bream can not simply sidle up to a bait , suck it into its mouth and move on , all in one motion .
26 I says Richard would you not even go on to the tech and , or somewhere that you could get better on your drawing and he , he
27 If the politicians were to take the drastic action that many voices are calling for , much of our motorised transport would not even get out of the garage .
28 It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair .
29 Gazza did not even come out for the second half — he had proved all he needed to prove to any disbelievers still out there .
30 She did not immediately come back with an answer , but looked at him steadily for some seconds before she said , ‘ That 's why you think you 've got me here for good , is n't it , Father ?
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