Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If things did n't carry on the way they have been , I would carry on enjoying my life . |
| 32 | ‘ Carry on enjoying your life in your own home with a Stannah Stairlift … ‘ |
| 33 | By early afternoon there was a stillness of heat , and a herd of cows from the higher fields slowly grazed their way down into the shade . |
| 34 | Alain asked quietly as they slowly made their way to the car later . |
| 35 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 36 | With a heavy sigh , and not even daring to look at her slim , almost naked form in the mirror , Laura slowly made her way out of the cottage , and down towards the ocean . |
| 37 | I slowly made my way down the road . |
| 38 | He slowly made his way along the train of fish vans . |
| 39 | A mother 's task is thus not to create something out of nothing but rather to dovetail her behaviour to that of the infant 's . [ … ] |
| 40 | In both instances a worker , acting in his own self-interest , may choose to retain his benefits ( by refusing extra pay or a job ) , thereby perpetuating his dependency on the Welfare State . |
| 41 | He continued ‘ Many of our former members who left the Association because of this type of subtle coercion now bitterly regret their decision . |
| 42 | After a while my mum 's new boyfriend moved in , and he eventually became my mum 's fiancé . |
| 43 | The vines eventually became his salvation . |
| 44 | The arthritis in her hands had already locked them into claws and Marie knew , because her supervisor had told her , that the creeping arthritis in Bella 's spine and hips would eventually make her bed-ridden . |
| 45 | The relatively low percentage of graduates from such courses who do eventually make their way , via postgraduate and often in the sciences post-doctoral research , into the academic professions , should not disguise the fact that academic courses do provide a preparation for such work . |
| 46 | How else , besides using her leg muscles , might she be able to help herself to stand up ? |
| 47 | Athelstan checked that the windows and doors of the priest 's house were locked , slung his saddle bags over a protesting Philomel , and both horse and rider wearily made their way along the icy track . |
| 48 | Corbett turned angrily on his heel , collected the cob and wearily made his way back to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 49 | But if artists and art critics go on nursing their grudge against everything Soviet and do not combine their efforts in order to organise a museum of Soviet culture , which would highlight the Soviet variant of Socialism , this artistic phenomenon will inevitably disappear like the notorious armoured car . |
| 50 | We might have been a lot wiser if , presumably to preserve their privacy , they had n't always used English in front of Maria . |
| 51 | They only feed the cuckoo because it has successfully manipulated their behaviour . |
| 52 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 53 | Mark , whom I have already quoted in my discussion of the lab work , was a final-year student at A who , although he had obtained A level grades of AAAB , eventually failed his degree . |
| 54 | Peggy Ashcroft duly got her gong for playing Lilian , 50 years in the bin , but She 's Been Away was considerably more than a kind of Rain Woman ; a vehicle for acting technique . |
| 55 | ‘ Rents should be related to the capital value of the property , thereby reflecting its popularity in market terms ’ . |
| 56 | His portrait was modified , in stages which can be dated by coins , from a depiction in the tradition of a Hellenistic king to one based on the canons valued in the Greek city-state , thereby reflecting his change from being one of the warlords in the civil wars after Caesar 's death to a new ‘ democratic ’ position after the settlement as first citizen , ‘ first among equals ’ ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 57 | and a little boy nipped on to see his mum the boy never got off so he was still on the bus |
| 58 | Playing with Darcy , the 33-year-old Dubliner dropped a shot early on to see his lead reduced by two shots . |
| 59 | This woman violates the taboo of not touching any man when in a state of impurity by secretly touching his garment , hoping thereby to heal herself . |
| 60 | Once sitting ( it will be sideways because the palms of your hands are on the floor ) , slowly raise your head . |