Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many retired people expect to slow down , expect their health to deteriorate ; in fact , their expectations are so low they do little to make their lives full and interesting . |
| 2 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 3 | The authorities there are so obsessed they 've already got toilet detectives ready to pounce on and arrest anyone who does n't treat public conveniences with respect . |
| 4 | Although prep schools are likely to be fiercely competitive they co-operate together through ISIS for joint marketing and public relations exercises . |
| 5 | But she admits her first experience of birth has n't put her off — she 's just glad they live so close to the hospital otherwise she 'd probably have given birth in the car ! |
| 6 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 7 | As they get steadily more drunk they sing loudly so that their voices fill the tunnels of the Worlds Edge Mountains and echo through the Dwarf strongholds . |
| 8 | You complain about your friends never coming to see you , but when they do come , you give them such a hard time it 's hardly surprising they stay away . |
| 9 | ‘ With Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire being such an important base it 's hardly surprising they want so much land , but I really wonder at times whether they need so much ? ’ |
| 10 | The trains in India and in Morocco had impressed them on recital tours as some of the most distinctive they had ever seen . |
| 11 | Even when secret services are grossly incompetent they get away with it . |
| 12 | At about 4.55 they came quietly and nervously from each community — right up to where the inspector and I stood . |
| 13 | M : it is — it is quite good they 've certainly kept within the + em + + preserved it reasonably well or conserved it but we were up in Aberdeen this year for a holiday and we were staying right within the University complex there in Old Aberdeen+ and + oh some of the buildings there are beautiful really they really are nice + but er I was quite impressed with it — it 's the first holiday we 've had up there + |
| 14 | Consequently the professional should discuss what has happened with the parents and make quite certain they know exactly why they have been advised to adopt certain practices . |
| 15 | Pretty sure they do anyway , Blinking slow in n it that direction ? |
| 16 | Where men feel most secure they keep least suspicious watch . |
| 17 | When the cubs are very small they feed quite extensively on newly born rabbits . |