Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [conj] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church visitors were intensely embarrassed shortly after we had agreed to have door-to-door visitation for a forthcoming town mission . |
| 2 | Stoppard 's stage directions are so explicit here that we do not have to watch the TV production in order to appreciate the impact of Anderson 's action . |
| 3 | But there were also some very happy and amusing times , and I 'm so thankful now that we had the experience . ’ |
| 4 | 6.8 The observations above on the behaviour of these adjectives may appear to suggest a surprising degree of linguistic sophistication on the part of ordinary language users ; it may , though , seem less surprising now that we have recognized in the earlier part of this chapter the sense-qualifiers , since these distinctively qualify the property of a noun without constituting a qualification of the corresponding entity . |
| 5 | Jason and I made a pact that we would n't discuss hairdressing at home unless we had to and we think that is even more important now that we have the baby . |
| 6 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 7 | Everyone was really excited even though we had a long coach journey ahead of us . |
| 8 | Our waterproof walking boots were really necessary here as we balanced on rocks to cross the gushing stream . |
| 9 | I think it 's the most difficult actually that we 've er , brought you this week . |
| 10 | In fact you 've been downright unbearable ever since we finished your articles for the journal . ’ |
| 11 | It was quite amazing really because we 'd never seen any of these things before . |
| 12 | The salon was never quite warm enough when we forgathered , not even in summer . |
| 13 | The governor 's thing is coming about quite useful tonight because we 've been talking about the law as regards governors and parents ' rights and what you 're supposed to ask parents |
| 14 | Moscucci further argues that this historical situation is fully comprehensible only if we take into account the 19th-century debates about femininity . |
| 15 | It 's pretty big too because we 've been talking about women . |
| 16 | ‘ They were very skilful technically and we lacked experience against that kind of thing . |
| 17 | I think that 's very valuable here because we 've given all that stuff up front . |
| 18 | We were very successful then and we 've now progressed . |
| 19 | ‘ It might still be a bit premature to suggest that we have made it if we beat Lithuania , but it would then become very close especially as we play them again in Dublin in September . ’ |
| 20 | But in our time , it 's very quiet now so we 've we 've moved into a different routine again , where I have two two sergeants out at one time , changing over er frequently so they do n't get bored . |