Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be a world of delight beyond Roundhay , where Victor Sylvester always plays and all the men are gentlemanly and such wonderful dancers and my mother spinturns for ever in their arms or elegantly allows them to light her cigarette . |
| 2 | There were grey areas in what she had told him — or rather allowed him to believe . |
| 3 | Well , thank you very much er , Geoffrey , erm that was a very full , and I think er , and as he says , cautious account of what 's been happening , and he does remind me of all the finance officers that I 've ever known , in this thing , I 've never really seen , or rarely seen them smile . |
| 4 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 5 | While the Capital Guarantee Bond may be a fairly simple product it more or less requires us to go through the same process as all other new products . |
| 6 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , a and in fact in the programme I th the one that Barbara was in , I can remember the er , as it happens , I , I was out er when that programme came on and I taped it so I s I , I 've still got that particular programme , and the lady at the end er on one of her questions she 'd obviously forgotten what she was going to say er and sort of made something up and er she turned to er as they were just panning away from her , she turned to her next door neighbour and more or less said I forgot what I was going to say , you know . |
| 8 | The Treasury were very , very skilled chaps in more or less stopping you doing anything . |
| 9 | Because at the time the big boxing promoters and the New York State Athletic Commission , which had links with the Mafia , more or less decided who fought whom . |
| 10 | He refused to come downstairs into the cellar but more or less instructed me to return to Oakington at once , as the Commander-in-Chief wanted to speak to me . |
| 11 | Marxist approaches argue that economic relations more or less determine who has political power and how this political power is exercised , with power being concentrated in the hands of the bourgeoisie . |
| 12 | You see the trouble is with Margaret her husband had always done everything for her , she went out to work and he brought the , he more or less did his work , did overtime , everything and still managed to look after the boys |
| 13 | You you more or less guessed I suppose it would somehow get get to be known by somebody you know . |
| 14 | The stuff was either rubbish , or twee , or so boring it made you want to puke . |
| 15 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 16 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 17 | Extending the term by five years or so means you have to pay out less each month . |
| 18 | If you succeed in finding another job , or already have one lined up at the time that you go , it may not be worth suing your employer because the losses for which you could claim reimbursement may be minimal . |
| 19 | And eventually I convinced her — or anyway caused her to throw up her hands in rage and dismissal and stamp off to her cabin . |
| 20 | Indeed , the only question seemed to be whether he should even bother to make a move , or just let her do everything for him . |
| 21 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |
| 22 | Or ever saw it done on the Eurovision . |
| 23 | I think I went down to most people to say they ca n't , but when you point out something to them , they say yes I can see that , look there 's this as well and I think culturally er were led to believe if you do n't succeed in it , erm but in actual fact I think that you all do , but perhaps I think the books do , either assess it and give it value or , or still allow it to happen |
| 24 | What it excludes are mass produced images , popular images of childhood , equally subversive or ideologically determined which punctuate our daily lives . |
| 25 | The DTI sets out two options : abolition without replacement , and replacement by a ‘ compilation report ’ by an independent and suitably qualified accountant ( stating compliance with legislation and that the company is eligible for exemption ) with a directors ' declaration which , under two options , could simply state their obligations or also attest they have kept proper records and prepared accounts to give a true and fair view — and so , as the DTI warns , expose them to civil liability and weaken their statutory defences . |
| 26 | There must have been an involvement in something sufficiently profitable or menacing or both to lead somebody to murder . |
| 27 | 122 miles you 've just pushed this seven and a half ton truck I believe yet what was the one moment that really stood out or really got you going ? |
| 28 | I am almost tempted to produce some enormous prize for any bookseller who can furnish me with a list of the shortlisted titles , or even let me know if they have the winning title in stock : I feel confident that I would have no takers . |
| 29 | There are so many others who have good reasons but who do n't hate like you do , who do n't keep it up , who can forget , do something else , or even use it to achieve something . |
| 30 | Our negativity may have sent the fire brigade on strike , or even made them uncouple their hoses from that hydrant that gave all that lovely , cool life-giving water that would have quenched the fire and instead couple them to the nearest petrol tank . |