Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 2 | Now the District Council is thinking in terms of this as a reason why perhaps sixty ac sixty hectares may not be entirely enough and we should seek to compensate for transfers out of industrial land . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I 've known for some time that if you want a bit of peace you only have to bore people enough and they 'll leave you to it . ’ |
| 4 | I told them I was n't old enough but Mrs Tiller said I was tall enough and she would work it . |
| 5 | The details would be out soon enough and it would look odd if he were too reticent , odd and suspicious . |
| 6 | ‘ Play Cliff long enough and it will see the error of its way and shoot off to church . |
| 7 | A pier is a disappointed bridge ; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel . |
| 8 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 9 | ‘ Obviously it 's not good enough and I 'll decide over the next 48 hours what I am going to do . |
| 10 | Get me close enough and I will do the rest . ’ |
| 11 | I could pay , I would have to pay the first eighty somewhat and I would have to pay the first ninety , ninety somewhat on a pair of glasses |
| 12 | The failure of this initiative set the firm back somewhat and it may find it difficult to recover . |
| 13 | There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well . |
| 14 | I do n't care how different he is underneath , ’ she cut through Davide 's protests , ‘ how much bluster it is , blusterers make poor husbands , never could make a woman happy for more than five minutes , and anyway , Caterina can do better and I 'll see to it that Rosalba does better too . |
| 15 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |
| 16 | ‘ He would slag off someone terribly and you would think they must have had a terrible row . |
| 17 | The people she would have to deal with in the London offices , paved with razor wire , rose up before her grotesquely and she would pull the sheets over her head and moan : ‘ I do n't want to get up — ever again ! ’ |
| 18 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 19 | Put your fingers inside and you will feel , not eggs , but a dividing wall . |
| 20 | Come inside and I 'll warm you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Come inside and I 'll explain . ’ |
| 22 | Blinking her eyes rapidly to try and clear her head , Sarah said , ‘ Come inside and I 'll go and look . ’ |
| 23 | The vehicles drew alongside and I could see their amber lights through the canvas and hear slamming doors and excited friendly voices . |
| 24 | Large demands have to be floated gently and you must stay in touch with the other party 's reactions by looking for signals that they are being pushed too far or too fast . |
| 25 | She 'll swallow that down nice and gently and it 'll coat her tummy and it will gradually work its way through into the bowel and quieten them down as well . |
| 26 | Thank you very much and we 'd like now to answer any questions that you may have . |
| 27 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
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