Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage we merely introduce them in passing ; we will return to them in greater detail later on . |
| 2 | He was determined to disarm any refugees who came into the grounds , and so prevent anyone from starting trouble there . |
| 3 | As the horse learns from the voice to listen to the seat , leg and rein aids then you gradually dispense with the voice and only use it for rewarding when he is good . |
| 4 | So thank you for approaching us , I wish you all the best , I ‘ ll hop off soon and catch my bus And give my brain a rest ! |
| 5 | Er so thank you for coming and do n't forget the candidates and and Thank John personally for for for being such a very good er candidate in in this erm hustings , er but do n't leave the candidates to You must fee The people in Salford and Eccles and in er Worsley , who get the Manchester Evening News , Er It 's it 's that they they put lo there 's local issues is n't there ? |
| 6 | So thank you for coming . |
| 7 | So thank you for giving me the chance to , to air that view . |
| 8 | As we shall see in Chapter 6 , much conformity may be explained by powerlessness in the face of social circumstances , where the actors recognise their inability to change things , and so resign themselves to making the best of it . |
| 9 | Smokers form a kind of club ; they understand one another ; they have their addiction in common and they mutually reinforce it by handing cigarettes around like little , ritualised gifts . |
| 10 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 11 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 12 | No wonder they easily recruit us into joining their narcissistic self-contemplation . |
| 13 | I already hate myself for having taken the job , I know it was a mistake . |
| 14 | Just confine yourself to watching the game , that 's all . |
| 15 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 16 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 17 | These valves also serve to trap any water which may accidentally pass the blowhole , and thus prevent it from entering the lungs , which would cause choking or drowning . |
| 18 | Surely you no longer suspect me of using you in some devious plan to make Lotta jealous ? ’ |
| 19 | Better just argue her into going back where she belonged . |
| 20 | Young people especially just take it for granted and order it automatically . |
| 21 | I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching . |
| 22 | No , well they all said next time they 'll check , because some of them just just take it for granted . |
| 23 | We know how cars work , but we do n't appreciate how our skeletal machinery works ; we just take it for granted that it does . ’ |
| 24 | You just er , you just take it for granted do n't you ? |
| 25 | If we do not face up to our fears , we might project them onto the outside world , perhaps in the form of violent crime , epidemics , disasters or a vengeful God , or ( closer to home ) in the form of a partner , family or friends who ‘ block ’ our growth , and thus protect us from facing our fears . |
| 26 | I keep having hot flushes , know what I mean ? but d' you think they care ? they just follow me round saying ‘ Miss we 've dropped a stitch ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ The workers in our group already have lots of knitting to do what I need now is another group of volunteers , ’ Moira said . |
| 28 | If a person is rightly charged with larceny , but the jury in reliance on section 44(3) mistakenly convict him of obtaining by false pretences , the Court of Criminal Appeal can not substitute a verdict of guilty of larceny under section 5(2) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907 ; for the verdict implies an acquittal of larceny , so that it can not ‘ [ appear ] to the Court of Criminal Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of [ larceny ] ’ ( Rex v. Fisher ( 1921 ) 16 Cr.App.R. 53 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I usually say something about going for boldness and colour , but that is really a question of choosing artists by their style . ’ |
| 30 | Of course , more fool her for having succumbed to the moment , but it was over and done with , and that was the end of it . |