Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Some predict that eventually everyone will carry all the sequences of his genes on a compact disk .
2 If we can make EDI work effectively everyone will benefit , but getting going is a pain , frankly . ’
3 Perhaps if I did n't know you so intimately I could be convinced , but I know your sexuality and your demands — ’
4 He has since , of course , achieved a political status by which presumably I ought now to judge him , but as a junior voice in a senior assembly I could not resist the conclusion that he was a little too forthcoming , particularly when on one occasion he outraged me by a suggestion that if a common waiting-list was established , consolidating both private and NHS priorities , the NHS patients should have pride of place before private patients came into the reckoning .
5 Presumably I 'll have to transfer them to a separate tank first , but should it be planted or bare ?
6 But presumably I can put a mouse driver in later ?
7 Presumably I can also write to John Gummer saying is dead good .
8 Okay presumably I should put something again in the newsletter about conference and this accommodation thing .
9 ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’
10 Erm and they look quite good , but irritatingly I could have done with them , after the first workshop .
11 Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy .
12 When I have it badly I ca n't stand up without vomiting , my vision is distorted , my speech is slurred and the pain in my head is almost unbearable . ’
13 How can you chat about it like this when I 'm holding you and when I want to kiss you and make love to you so badly I ca n't even think of anything else ! ’
14 I had no idea what life with a baby would be like and no idea how well or badly I would I would cope .
15 Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall .
16 ‘ Now I am teaching a little I would find too many things wrong . ’
17 See , right if he still was n't speaking to me properly I would n't have brought that off him !
18 Yeah , well I du n no , do it all properly I must do all my bits and pieces tonight , I have n't done them this week , oh let's have a look at the poll tax , because I thought there was one more , I 'm sure there is
19 Additionally I might have info about further education and job opportunities , plus business contacts .
20 Somewhere someone will always be leaving open
21 And I think the most I 'll get out of it , at least for a few years , is local portrait photography .
22 Except , a small protective inner voice prompted her hurtfully , that I 'm no long-term threat to your person or your property because in a few days ' time at the very most I shall be out of your land and out of your life .
23 Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four
24 ‘ It was the most I could imagine . ’
25 He said , ‘ So the most I can hope for would be to be at home on a respirator full-time ? ’
26 The most I can do is to offer a very brief and personal view of some of the recent changes in emphasis drawing from the syllabuses of ten countries and to isolate a few of the new approaches which strike me as particularly interesting and exciting .
27 People are sending in some really bad , obviously made-up scores : 9 million on Turrican — the most I can manage is 2 million and that 's by visiting every section and standing at the edge of the cascade , blasting everything .
28 Not a lot of money , but the most I can pay for any given commodity .
29 ‘ The most I can do is say , ‘ This is what GPs are thinking ’ . ’
30 The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’
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