Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He apparently has done quite a lot of good work in the past . |
| 2 | The clean-up alone has cost over a billion dollars — and is still going on . |
| 3 | Any sane and workable approach to life obviously has to contain both an attitude to individuals and an attitude towards the whole . |
| 4 | When the Foreign Secretary visits the Group of Seven summit in the summer , will he bang some heads together to try to bring forward a new deal for the third world ? |
| 5 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 6 | In their case the statute of limitations only started to apply once an actual fault was discovered , but their PI payments did not qualify for relief because they had stopped working . |
| 7 | Ideas only find favour once an influential person(s) has been convinced of their practicability . |
| 8 | Only split seconds perhaps , for the entire flight could only have lasted about a minute , yet a significant time in an emergency . |
| 9 | If you really can only go shopping once a week , you will have to store all you fruit and vegetables in the refrigerator or somewhere cool to prevent them from spoiling . |
| 10 | Of course the young girls , they sometimes started off very enthusiastic and perhaps did do quite a lot without realising the implications and effect of it but the older women often had trouble keeping up . |
| 11 | Robyn was suddenly finding breathing quite a problem ; she was n't sure if she was anywhere near able to reply — not when he looked at her like that , not when his body was so close to hers . |
| 12 | Well I 'm only trying to find just a few more recordings for her because they 're coming towards the end of the er |
| 13 | At the door he did not immediately turn and grab the handle but put his hand behind him and slowly opened the door and in doing so had to walk forward a step . |
| 14 | She decided that she did not want to have either an abortion , or to have the baby adopted . |
| 15 | Where glues are concerned , I , personally , would not scorn to wear both a belt and braces . |
| 16 | The connector just needed nipping together a little . |
| 17 | Only a handful of players from their original selection turned out , the management obviously having decided that they were not going to give even a hint of their championship formation . |
| 18 | You 're not going to brush aside a tradition with a few facts . |
| 19 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 20 | Jessamy finally began to relax just a fraction . |
| 21 | Does the Prime Minister not remember saying just a year ago on the steps of Downing street that the Conservative party was ’ fully united for the future ’ and is that not patently false now when , in the approach to the vital meeting at Maastricht , the Tory party is in a state of open warfare ? |
| 22 | Most girls just get married once a year and have another baby . |
| 23 | ‘ Am I alone in detecting a falling away of accuracy — a sloppiness in dealing with facts and quotations which editors would not have tolerated even a few years ago ? ’ |
| 24 | Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now … |
| 25 | Applicants must satisfy the general entry requirements for admission to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) , and will normally have completed successfully a Foundation Course in Art and Design . |
| 26 | If they find a cure for say , lung cancer they 'll just have to chase just a tiny bit and they will do cancer . |
| 27 | and not having attached thereto a sidecar ; |
| 28 | ‘ and not having attached thereto a sidecar ’ A flat tubular framework attached to a motor bicycle with a wheel on an axle welded to that framework is not a sidecar for this purpose ( Cox v Harrison , [ l 968 ] 3 All ER 8 11 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ and not having attached thereto a sidecar ’ In the majority of this type of offence there will not be a sidecar fitted . |
| 30 | With minds on absent players 'Mere started cold and were lucky not to have given away a large margin within the first few minutes . |