Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 2 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 3 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 4 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 5 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 7 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |