Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure you 'd get on better by being nice to the girl . |
| 2 | Until , like a jet of cold water , she remembered Didi Lombard 's words ; ‘ … you 'd get on better by being nice to the girl … you could have her eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 3 | About ten minutes later , we decide we 've cooled down sufficiently to be able to leave the men 's room and go back into the restaurant . |
| 4 | They also needed to stop rationalizing the problem to themselves and bending over backwards to be fair . |
| 5 | WE BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO BE FAIR |
| 6 | We bend over backwards to be fair , to get to terms with the pupils , to try to get their confidence . |
| 7 | I 'll just recite it through quietly to be sure I can remember it first , shall I ? ’ |
| 8 | Asked why Hulme , with an open goal before him , did not move up further to be certain of his target before shooting , he answered that the man on the field did not have as clear a view of the situation around him as did the spectator and was not always aware of how much time he had for his moves . |
| 9 | She pulled herself up sharply from being mournful . |
| 10 | Okay it 's erm I du n no , I du n no how they 'll feel about you phoning them up though to be honest with you . |
| 11 | You know there were no difference in them only er as they go along now they 're putting plastic rails up instead of being wooden , you see 'em there . |
| 12 | Although Charlie could always see Trentham in front of him , Tommy was so silent in his wake that from time to time he had to look back just to be certain his friend was still there . |
| 13 | If a particular financial advisor uses the system to recommend an investment to a client , the advisor will not be negligent if the system was used in a reasonable and satisfactory manner , even if the advice turns out retrospectively to be bad . |
| 14 | What had appeared then to be contentment turned out now to be cold loneliness . |
| 15 | We feel that er Trevor was virtually told what to say , er we do n't think it was er a true picture of what er happened out there to be honest . |
| 16 | I mean in the past in has always turned out that what people have thought to be elementary turns out never to be elementary . |