Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to know where to find your enemy 's weak spots , how to hit them effectively , and which parts of your own body to use . |
| 2 | So any shortage of places will be likely to hit them hardest . |
| 3 | ( We inevitably got the ‘ you fancy each other ’ spiel but I ignore people like that — I would like to hit them very hard ! ) |
| 4 | He probably wants to hit me again . |
| 5 | I did n't expect it to hit me quite so hard , but when I think about it it 's because I 'm so bloody sad that the last fourteen years were spent in dying not in living . |
| 6 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've frightened me stiff , ’ I said frankly . |
| 8 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 9 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 10 | What irritates me most about him is his way of speaking . |
| 11 | In fact , he irritates me intensely sometimes . |
| 12 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 14 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 15 | That was the stratagem , but the Emperor was as aware of those allied hopes as any British or Prussian officer and he would be planning to slash the net into two pieces and separately tear them apart . |
| 16 | Tear them apart . |
| 17 | In order to ensure that pupils who have come to enjoy the advantages of the unit do not deliberately fail on a return to school , Owen refuses to readmit them once reintroduction has taken place . |
| 18 | Good girl ! " he commended Lally as kindly as he would any keen bitch , and asked nothing further . |
| 19 | So I 've said I 've listed them well the important points for me were the Aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience content . |
| 20 | To simplify his thoughts he had listed them under two headings : first there was that which directly affected Belpan . |
| 21 | I hate them already ! |
| 22 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 23 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 24 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 25 | We 've heard them so many times that they 've ceased to have any effect . |
| 26 | The really insidious and mischievous phrases are the well-established ones that come to mind unbidden because we have heard them so often . |
| 27 | The synthesised female voice that responds to your commands and verifies that it has heard them correctly is amiable enough , though clearly not to be trifled with . |
| 28 | Raynor said softly , ‘ But you are so beautiful that men would die for you , ’ and Grainne looked up , startled , because the words had been so soft that she could not be sure she had heard them correctly , yet she knew she had . |
| 29 | But she could not remember where she had heard them before . |
| 30 | Richard , who had heard them before , frowned and swatted flies : it grew very hot . |