Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the three methods being considered , this is the most controversial and it has dominated the debate about paying for water . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is an approach employed by many countries : it was first used by the Soviet Union in 1951 , but it is the United States with which this strategy is most associated and which has made known its advantages and disadvantages . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the station master was rather deaf and he failed to hear an approaching train in the inky darkness of the tunnel and he was struck down and killed . |
| 4 | Gesner seemed rather wooden and he kept giving Therese a speculative scowl . |
| 5 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 6 | Would it be possible to find out what Priscilla 's results were because she 's had a urine test and she 's extremely sore and they 've asked for another urine test , and I 'm |
| 7 | she 's going , erm because he , he does n't do anything , yeah , and she 's going oh I suppose any other girl would dump you ages ago , you do n't know how lucky you are , she just so nice , blah , blah , blah , blah , and he , I say it was so funny and she start shouting at him , that 's why he was trying to go oh shut up |
| 8 | If this happened , the style of projecting our intentions and emotions into other animals , which we all find so easy and which seems to flow from a belief in evolution , will often lead us astray . |
| 9 | For a brief moment the one-man show had seemed so promising and he had dared to hope . |
| 10 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 11 | The officer in command of Jotan 's escort , whose knowledge of the city was apparently imperfect and who had misunderstood the directions he had been given , had been stripped of his rank , flogged , and turned off . |
| 12 | Now this year what I 've done is actually going to see the form teacher and look at the classes and they 've actually given me a lot more information this year and hopefully , keep our fingers crossed , the classes are very varied and we have good , we have middling , and we have the not so good and we 've tried to keep those like that . |
| 13 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 14 | It 's so useful and we 've seen it and enjoy it . |
| 15 | Books and other references sources can be extremely useful and I 've found the staff at most libraries very helpful … that is , once they 've been persuaded that they are not dealing with an imaginative miscreant ! |
| 16 | Some insisted that the reforms were naturally problematic and they had to support the Party in its efforts to modernise China . |
| 17 | However , once you hand over your work to the framer , you can not always guarantee that the design will not have moved slightly , so on the whole it is probably best to use a cold-seal film at home , unless the item is extremely important and you want to achieve as professional a finish as possible . |
| 18 | and er so Mrs said oh we must , we must try and get out of Khartoum cos it was so hot and we 'd booked to go to k er for a week |
| 19 | Any distribution of power could be only temporary and everyone involved knew it : a situation which brought its own tensions . |
| 20 | Any distribution of power could be only temporary and everyone involved knew it : a situation which brought its own tensions . |
| 21 | But you 've got to have those caravan , those vents because the van is so small and you 've got gas supplied . |
| 22 | This is usually extremely wasteful and it tends to reinforce the inefficient image of PR executives . |
| 23 | However , in urban areas this was less common and there seems to have been more opportunity for young people to stay in the parental home for longer , because of the greater availability of work in the locality ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 25–6 ) . |
| 24 | To begin with I found it almost too much to take on board , but it was all extremely thought-provoking and I had to make a decision to put my heart into it or not to bother at all ; it would have been pointless just to dip into it now and again . |
| 25 | He was so handsome and she did love him dearly , despite Gareth Davis . |
| 26 | It is this development which made Channel Four so special and which continues to demonstrate the possibility of encouraging differences through imaginative regulatory and funding mechanisms . |
| 27 | On the Quakers ' goal of the season so far , he said : ‘ I ca n't remember a lot about the build up , but the ball sort of bounced just right and I let fly . |
| 28 | ‘ I was kicked out by my landlord and put in this hostel which was just awful and I had to get away so I came here — I do n't know why , really , I … ’ |
| 29 | It was like watching someone else have that dream we all have : where we 're already late and we 've got to clear these last few things , but every time we try , something else gets in the way . |
| 30 | When the form of socialism is that found in the Soviet Union and most Eastern European states , with different social and economic organizations integrated into a single , state-wide organization , society is ruled by an apparatus which is largely bureaucratic and which attempts to integrate all collective activities . |