Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this time he introduced himself to the Governor of New South Wales , who received me most kindly and offered me every assistance ’ , and paid his respects to Captain Philip Parker King , who had commanded his expedition with Lady Franklin to Recherche Bay the previous December , and who was now resident in Sydney as Port Officer and Superintendent of Government Vessels . |
| 2 | So I might have thought ‘ well , why are n't I much younger and having this wonderful and exciting life ? ’ ’ |
| 3 | We have to try to make ourselves more efficient and to accept change , but there are certain things we should hang on to . |
| 4 | His worsening eyesight and declining health certainly heralded this decision , but the constraints of working for someone as particular and demanding as Gould could not have helped . |
| 5 | His typically unspecific and floated ‘ us ’ is the human family which Raskolnikov must rejoin , and he ca n't rejoin it without accepting suffering . |
| 6 | To love someone this much and to want them so badly . |
| 7 | Having supplied them with a fifth chair , Amiss made them generally comfortable and vanished noiselessly through the nearest door . |
| 8 | He arrived to find them just finishing and asked hopefully if any prints had been found . |
| 9 | At its most complex and demanding , involvement may mean taking action to protect a child against cruelty and neglect . |
| 10 | But station architecture was perhaps expressed in its most vigorous and diversified forms in the countless thousands of small country and medium-sized town stations coast to coast . |
| 11 | Before the Kiwis arrived Britain had lost Ellery Hanley and Garry Schofield , two of their most experienced and feared performers . |
| 12 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 13 | A decade later , submarine cable were carrying about 27 million words per annum , their most regular and demanding customer being the governments of the day . |
| 14 | The initial vulnerability of the new born is expressed in Denis Creffield 's Anxious Baby ( 1983 ) and here the parallels with those popular images of childhood which constantly interpenetrate and interrupt our day-to-day routine are obvious . |
| 15 | ‘ In your brother 's papers there is mention of something your father told him about a year ago which greatly surprised and puzzled him . |
| 16 | In addition , having listened repeatedly to the cassette he felt much happier in himself , realizing that the stammer which so embarrassed and distressed him was not going to prove incurable . |
| 17 | ‘ I ai n't nobody 's master , ’ she said with the slight thrust of her jaw which always amused and moved him . |
| 18 | Early conceptual clarification ( Petch , 1987 ) confirmed both greater diversity than the simple dichotomy and the presence of alternative dimensions , for example decentralization and accountability , which both parallel and cross-cut the organizational debate . |
| 19 | There was something about the mystery she seemed determined to solve which both excited and enthralled him . |
| 20 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 21 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 22 | On a few previous late evening occasions Sherman had been allowed to go to this area and view the gorillas , an event which both scared and thrilled him . |
| 23 | When there was a party , it often ended in the complete sacking of the local hotel ; which simultaneously shocked and impressed the more orderly French pilots . |
| 24 | Without their counsel the recommendations of the majority on the Commission would have been even less favourable to the aspirations of the deaf and dumb , and their dissent on the two recommendations , which particularly disappointed and angered them , was admired widely . |
| 25 | The increased ionisation along the earth 's lines of magnetic force make them more conductive and leads to an increased current flow with consequent rise in magnetic flux levels . |
| 26 | Most farmers view old buildings as a liability and the relaxation of a planning authority 's traditional strictness in assessing proposed changes of use of such structures enhances their development potential , makes them more marketable and encourages the owner to sell them and to put up cheaply built , impermanent and often ugly sheds for storage of crops and farm machinery . |
| 27 | For some of the later applications of paint , white was used in the mixtures , making them more opaque and contrasting with the areas of maximum transparency through which the white of the paper shines out . |
| 28 | Think about what does you most good and go for it . |
| 29 | " Knowing Toadflax , I 'm surprised he did n't knock you over first and ask questions afterwards . |
| 30 | I 've come to make you more comfy and bring you your tea . |