Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is a self which readers of the book can only rarely have found it hard to experience . |
| 2 | Against his magnetic forces , my own ‘ evil ’ eye , which had anyhow long since started to abandon me , could put up no resistance . |
| 3 | Well if it 's , if it 's if the weather 's not very good I 'll meet you in the car , but if it 's a nice day I , I 'd much rather walk to meet you . |
| 4 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
| 5 | ‘ There is n't much point ; you 're not going to live long enough to have to introduce me at parties . ’ |
| 6 | He would have warmed to Eileen had he lived long enough to get to know her . |
| 7 | If these richly-endowed giants of the developing world are barely equal to the task of liberalization , Africa is much less equipped for the challenge , and much less prepared to face it . |
| 8 | ‘ I do so much want to congratulate you and your parish on the televised celebration of your Mass for the Feast of Christ the King yesterday . |
| 9 | So much time does it take , day after day after day , and nights too , nights in cars , that it becomes your life rather than merely your occupation , especially for those who winter abroad and accordingly know of England little other than cricket . |
| 10 | I was surprised that he so eagerly sought to confront me . |
| 11 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've spent so long trying to block it all out . |
| 13 | Well in a modern world we 've lost the faith that certain people are appointed by God to do this for us , or especially naturally fitted to do it , so how are we going to accept the rule of some people rather than others ? |
| 14 | Well they better not try telling me that . |
| 15 | She held the bag between them , suddenly not daring to put it down in case it signalled something , the consequences of which she might regret . |
| 16 | Theda took Hector to the kitchen and left him with Mrs Elswick to do what he might in the way of cajolery , for she had several morsels of interest to his ever ready stomach , and Theda was obviously not going to take him outside . |
| 17 | You 're obviously not going to get it , are you , it 's another vowel change . |
| 18 | They 'd apparently already decided to loan me to Carlisle Flint . |
| 19 | The idea was to make the farm buildings look good enough not to have to screen them . |
| 20 | People from all over come to greet us , hugs from Cambridge , hand shakes from Poole ; will we ever see all these wonderful people again ? |
| 21 | As for Lucinda 's birth — she still shuddered just to think of it , and she had prayed that the next one would produce the son she so desperately needed to enable her to call a halt to the whole disagreeable business . |
| 22 | However Crewe came back into the game a scored after 30 minutes or so when Strach misplaced a pass in the midfield where upon some Crewe player broke away and rolled the ball past Beaney and Hodge ( who only just missed intercepting it ) . |
| 23 | I only just managed to get it down before bolting from the tent just in time to get rid of the contents of my stomach . |
| 24 | His parents had only just begun to give him and his sibling the lore of their territory , telling him the names of eagles who had nested there before . |
| 25 | You can she said to me G T A have only just started doing they say it 's a new model she said , is it the new shape ? |
| 26 | But the mare was arching her back and groaning in such agony now that Luke only just managed to keep her on her feet . |
| 27 | A little owl , pretending to be just another stone on a heap of stones ; we could so easily have missed him if he had n't swivelled his head to peer in our direction at just the right moment . |
| 28 | " I only ever wish to please him and I 'm very sorry my pet gibbon was taken to the palace . |
| 29 | Well on the Wittering job he said he wanted somebody there you know er myself as manager to oversee the job but on the Sheffield Wednesday job , incidentally I 'd I got the contract from them both , the Sheffield Wednesday job was done I 'd only ever had to visit it once and that was at my request not at anybody else 's and either way both erm the Wittering and the Sheffield Wednesday er there have been other drivers going . |
| 30 | If we confine attention to the 8 samples on which at least 15 individual determinations were made , the R range narrows to 0.35–0.95% , confirming that some of these rocks were formerly sufficiently deeply buried to put them into the oil-generating window . |