Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broussac and Capote refused to read the signs and so made their most dreadful mistake . |
| 2 | Just as the overall Tory campaign has had its weaknesses , so has its most important subsection : the Major campaign . |
| 3 | erm And I think erm we 've got to obviously give them as much respect as possible , because for them to reach the semi-final , the same as us erm they obviously erm have got some useful players . |
| 4 | Really I think I 've only done it twice this term . |
| 5 | Even people who claim to remember dreams every morning only recall their most recent dream , and any dreams they may have had during the two or three REM periods earlier in the night , or even during REM sleep , are completely lost . |
| 6 | This was shown in a handsome but stiff pose , painted by Barraband , in Vieillot 's book Tropical Songbirds ( 1805–9 ) : though drawn from life , it looks stuffed but is very decorative , and is accurate enough to fit its primarily taxonomic purpose as well . |
| 7 | Neither Laura nor the young man had been strong enough to withstand their frigidly withering assault . |
| 8 | Being an effective coach means being willing to learn by doing , especially by building coaching into your personal style of management and constantly analysing your most recent coaching session . |
| 9 | In the Apostles she perhaps displayed her most dramatic singing on record , and I am proud to have shared that performance with her . |
| 10 | No , it only takes me about forty minute , no hold on ! |
| 11 | Questioned as he left Nato headquarters in Brussels , he said ‘ if indeed some loss of life has occurred , I can only express my very profound regret ’ . |
| 12 | The three culprits are depicted , Welsh Nationalists of otherwise impeccable character and one can only admire their somewhat misguided coup . |
| 13 | He suddenly remembered her carefully veiled amusement when he had mentioned the tinkers . |
| 14 | So do it right first time . |
| 15 | ‘ It would only confuse our already confused image , ’ a Pyramid official said . |
| 16 | Robert Maxwell , publishing tycoon ( left ) , was apparently showing his more charitable side at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , if you 'd rather do something else this evening … ’ |
| 18 | Ridiculous , she told herself , relieved when he moved away to pour them both some Perrier water . |
| 19 | Since different measurements on A produce incompatible consequences for B , the act of measurement must induce a new state for B , not just reveal its previously existing state . |
| 20 | As a result of their financial difficulties , Athletico were forced to resign from the Mid-Counties League and for the 70/71 season played no football at all , thereby suffering no defeats and thus securing their most successful season ever . |
| 21 | Basic literacy , which was all that was aimed at , would allow the people to grasp more easily the intentions of the ruler and thus ensure their more effective cooperation in his policies . |
| 22 | One of the first tourists to venture into the former realm of King Zog was John Biffen , who soon discovered his fairly orthodox demeanor was regarded as offensively trendy by Albania 's time-warped Bolshevists . |
| 23 | The smaller staff allowed them to move their headquarters to a building half the size , thus providing one more visual symbol of the change in the organizational culture . |
| 24 | They 've already played them twice this season and lost both times . |
| 25 | But , I just came across so much of it every where I was , I thought actually there there 's a book in this because it used to get , just get me so cross writing theatre history and , and reading these terrible things ! |
| 26 | THE Ice Maiden finally lost her cool this week . |
| 27 | It soon lost its exclusively maritime connotation and , from denoting simply work as a galley slave , came to be applied to other forms of penal servitude with hard labour . |
| 28 | The 78 , which appeared at the beginning of the 1977 season , was one of Chapman 's greatest and most revolutionary contributions to motor racing and the concept which it employed ( the so-called Venturi effect , by which the air was channelled under rather than over the car , thus giving it infinitely superior down-force and road-holding ability ) set the standard for many years to come . |
| 29 | So you got the whole spectrum of , or if you 're just doing it like French dictation , it wo n't , if words tend to just , to just be spoken language , right through to an immensely detailed erm , attempts to put everything down , including tone of the voice , and all these other ones which are extremely difficult to I think you noticed that I was standing looking at the transcriptions near each team . |
| 30 | But having just banked our rather substantial cheque for the start-up , we looked at the price of everything and thought ‘ that 's a bit expensive ’ and bought nothing . |