Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] and [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 John Sandoe with his tiny treasure trove of a bookstore off the King 's Road , understood this instinctively and must surely have the highest measure of customer loyalty in London .
2 Bella was very old now and would probably be glad of a rest , George considered , so he drew the pony to a halt and walked her off the road and on to the quarry floor .
3 On the eighth end Ipswich , trailing 13–4 , dropped a maximum eight to fall 21–4 behind and could never catch up .
4 Your budgie may not be far away and will perhaps come back when it feels hungry . ’
5 Another alternative St. Margaret 's Hospital at Epping has a casualty department which is only open 9am-5pm and will shortly close anyway , he said .
6 While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly .
7 Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost .
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