Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While nineteenth-century Catholic teaching had been suspicious of ‘ human rights ’ discourse , John embraced it eagerly and made it a central theme , greatly extending the range and number of ‘ rights ’ , including those of minorities ( 95–7 ) and refugees ( 103–8 ) . |
| 2 | I approached it eagerly and touched it . |
| 3 | He took the paper eagerly and folded it carefully into his wallet . |
| 4 | He nodded eagerly and left with his dog . |
| 5 | Hugh would get up purposefully and drive into Mondano , returning with a large number of bread rolls and a few croissants over which the children quarrelled . |
| 6 | If that council harboured its resources sensibly and deployed them effectively , it would be able to spend them in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 7 | To suggest ways to exercise sensibly and stay fit . |
| 8 | He appealed to drivers to park sensibly and avoid the inconvenience and expense of recovering vehicles from the car pound . |
| 9 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 10 | In answer to an earlier question the Under-Secretary of State mentioned the vast resources given to the city of Liverpool , and by definition to other inner city authorities , which have not used housing resources sensibly and have not proceeded far with the right to buy . |
| 11 | To avoid danger you must start off sensibly and warm up slowly , says consumer magazine Which ? |
| 12 | Rescuers , working in stifling temperatures in a space no bigger than three feet wide and two feet high , reached through a small hole they had dug to the men at 9.30pm and passed through drinks and sandwiches . |
| 13 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 14 | When his lips came back to hers , Jenna was soft and pliant , no resistance in her at all , and he rolled on to his back , pulling her over him fiercely and cupped her hot face in strong fingers . |
| 15 | I nodded fiercely and smiled bravely , utterly insincerely , at my mother . |
| 16 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 17 | She grunted fiercely and set off up the slope . |
| 18 | Ronni glared at him fiercely and tried to loosen his grip on her hair with a punch . |
| 19 | Hunting organisations claim however that the planned cull will not allow caribou numbers to increase quickly enough and does not cover enough areas . |
| 20 | I got some more sedatives in anticipation , and eventually had to turn him out when he decided one night that enough was enough and kicked several large holes in the stable wall . |
| 21 | MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature . |
| 22 | Whatever might have been the prosaic reason for his initial posting to Masai District , an officer who stayed long enough and had a sufficiently striking personality could expect to become locally famous not only for his love of the Masai but also for the love they bore for him . |
| 23 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 24 | Blufton seemed trustworthy enough and had no direct relationship with Nicola . |
| 25 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 26 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
| 27 | Upon taking up his new post , he discovered that the bearings were not strong enough and put great strains upon the axles which broke regularly . |
| 28 | Christina decided he looked happy enough and left him to enjoy himself . |
| 29 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 30 | And so , there 'd be the happy chatter of people as they were working , knowing there was gon na be enough and to spare . |