Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 2 | As chairman of this group , I obviously have financial people , accountants , treasury people , lawyers , personnel people , property people and so on who all make part of a team . |
| 3 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 4 | Then his head fell forward on to the table , and soon afterwards I too remembered no more of that wild evening . |
| 5 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 6 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 7 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 8 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |
| 9 | And even now I really did n't want to go . |
| 10 | However , they are not usually aggressive , except to members of their own kind , and even then they usually settle down without too much fuss . |
| 11 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 12 | ‘ Only with patience , persistence and a willingness to approach the highest levels did I get the information and even then I sometimes failed , ’ she said . |
| 13 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 14 | One experienced game tracker claimed that it was possible to get to within 40 or 50 yards before spotting a zebra under these conditions , and even then it only gave itself away by a small movement such as the swish of its tail or the sudden turn of its head . |
| 15 | And we agree to Vic 's conditions because we bloody need to and deep down we probably think Vic 's a genius too . |
| 16 | I 'd just get a couple of bags for a Saturday night or whatever and then eventually I just got into it deeper and deeper . |
| 17 | ‘ And then too I soon began to love her physically . |
| 18 | I 'm standing there watching them , and then suddenly they just walk off . |
| 19 | If you do not want me to cons y'know if you put , this is a load of effing sh or whatever and then suddenly you suddenly realise that you might actually pass so you then I mean cross it out , I 'll pretend it 's not there , ok ? |
| 20 | I mean , and then then she always doing like that , I do n't know what she does ! |
| 21 | We can see little or no difference , and indeed yesterday we unfortunately failed to arrest some very prominent IRA men , including Cathal Goulding from Dublin . |
| 22 | And fortunately again you often find that people , because it 's a novel situation , it 's amazing how the public are c often so helpful . |
| 23 | I regret I am not likely to lose weight in China , as their habit , at least in Peking , is to give us at least twice as much food as we need , and however much we gently suggest that three platefuls rather than six would be sufficient , they still go on just the same . |
| 24 | Really , thought Liz , really : Deirdre was exactly the kind of neurotic that she did her best , professionally , to avoid — narcissistic , exhibitionistic , selfish , manipulative , childish , unreliable , unpunctual , self-satisfied even in the depths of self-reproach , and yet there she somehow managed to stand , in the middle of Liz 's own kitchen , brandishing a pie knife . |
| 25 | They know their stuff inside out , but most importantly they also look like they are having a whale of a time . |
| 26 | It was probably frightening , but right now she only felt weak and tired , grateful that somebody was taking charge . |
| 27 | But just about everything else exists , and in spades . |
| 28 | But just about everyone else thought he had brought it on himself . |
| 29 | I was very reasonable , I looked up at him and appealed , but once again it just frightened him . |
| 30 | It bought trophies but more importantly it also provided two new sets of boccia balls . |