Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( My dad never touched the pig , though I was sure this was conditioning rather than religious scruple , just as I would n't eat horse 's scrotum . |
| 2 | BEAUTIFUL , flexible sounds , delicately turned phrases , and the sort of energy which skips rather than strides — the King 's Consort at the Queen 's Hall reminded us that civilisation is not entirely destroyed . |
| 3 | The PROFITBOSS pro-acts his way to profit rather than reacting to potential loss . |
| 4 | It seems that the subtasks are arranged hierarchically and that learning follows the sequence from small or simple elements to chains and sequences . |
| 5 | It aims to elaborate and refine rather than overturn ; it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 6 | You do n't have anywhere to wash your clothes or even yourself sometimes , so you 're dirty and your clothes are dirty and you 're not eating properly so you 're more liable to illness and this sort of thing , so that you 're not likely to keep a job even if you get it , and you ca n't get accommodation without a deposit , and so you need several hundred pounds in order to get accommodation . |
| 7 | He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual . |
| 8 | I insist on eating properly and will not skimp , even if it means altering the social calendar to suit . |
| 9 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 10 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 11 | Submarine fans were also formed locally and these are composed of oolitic and bioclastic grainstones and packstones ( Sannemann et al. 1978 ; Clark 1980b and in press ) . |
| 12 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 13 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 14 | She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth . |
| 15 | From her student days Pavlova was fired by stories of her legendary predecessor Marie Taglioni , who had travelled widely and appeared to great acclaim in St Petersburg during the 1837–9 seasons . |
| 16 | The problem was that the premises of his own theory required the answer to this question to remain always in abeyance , while his text enacts rather than resolves the equivocality of the choice which it sets up . |
| 17 | For the first time Benny realised properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city . |
| 18 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 19 | So Sullivan recommended rather that the Shah enter the States through an obscure air force base in either Maine or South Caroline , and best of all at night , . |
| 20 | The first are generated by scanners and need careful handling , the accompanying bitmap for display purposes may not reproduce properly although the image will print correctly — this is caused by the difference in screen resolutions between the two systems . |
| 21 | When he took not the slightest notice of her demand Laura closed her eyes , forcing herself to breathe slowly and deeply as she desperately tried to pull herself together . |
| 22 | How frustrating it is when other people 's knitting always goes right and outs has ‘ hiccups ’ ! ) |
| 23 | He had promised William Tanner he would keep his eye on his daughter and make sure that she was treated right and that none of the customers took advantage of her . |
| 24 | The measures are designed to deter non-essential traffic and to encourage drivers of essential vehicles to proceed slowly and considerately , not to obstruct and frustrate them . |
| 25 | In fact , the legal force of any particular rule depends partly on the source of its authority ( essentially , whether it is supported by statute or not ) ; partly on the way it is drafted ( rules which are drafted in precise technical language are more likely to be given some legal force than are rules drafted loosely and non-technically ) ; and partly on its contents . |
| 26 | Fearon , his swarthy face as white as a ghost beneath the tan , removed his hard hat slowly , the last to do so , and with an angry look at Green as if he felt the financier had somehow insulted rather than honoured the lifeless form sprawled on the flagstones . |
| 27 | Hops being fed into the copper where the sweet wort is boiled vigorously and the vital oils are extracted from the hops |
| 28 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 29 | The combination of bFGF given subcutaneously or by an intragastric route with sucralfate administered intragastrically did not significantly influence the reduction in the ethanol induced lesion area compared with that obtained with sucralfate alone ( Table I ) . |
| 30 | But if you can not afford to leave , might it not be better to put up with the treatment that you have received rather than becoming unemployed ? |