Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You thought me dead these few weeks … |
| 2 | and I bear them little enough ill will . |
| 3 | Networks are merely an enabling technology , and the applications that run on them little more than means to an end : information . |
| 4 | SE13 's feisty and fabulous Back To The Planet are the Radical Dance Faction it 's OK to like , a likeably ramshackle collective whose penchant for ska rhythms and reggae upholstery ought to merit them little more than outlaw status . |
| 5 | Those of the Indus and Ganges dolphins even lack lenses , so that their eyes can tell them little more than the difference between light and darkness , between day and night . |
| 6 | But now ’ she thought that it was not that , but something worse ; Rachel , who had always known things , did not know them properly any more . |
| 7 | Things like Fade To Black and Ironhand are untouched , and I like them rather more than the ‘ worked on ’ stuff . |
| 8 | After 1942 programmes for economic and social reform after the war began to take shape ; they had popular appeal and Labour was identified with them rather more than the Conservatives . |
| 9 | Their lease runs out at the end of , I think it 's April , and we are going to receive an approach from Devon County Council , that we become involved in any extension of that as a council , and that perhaps we offer them rather more in the way of guidance , which I think , is their main need . |
| 10 | Most of the buyers are women — so is the auctioneer , a brawny , competent , good-humoured young woman with a Levantine cast of countenance and a thick Midi accent — who will re-sell them locally this very evening ; any minute now the housewives of Martigues and Lavéra and round about will be turning them into la soupe or la friture for the evening meal . |
| 11 | Precisely four-fifths of the yeomen owned land , but even though this was far more widely diffused than in Rutland there remained a marked contrast between them and the husbandmen , of whom rather less than half were freeholders . |
| 12 | " Will you pose for me properly some time ? " |
| 13 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 14 | Yeah that 's a big and my and that stuck out the bucket like that , well going over the top we had a hood over the top tumbler to stop the flashing , so my father stopped , thinking that was a bit of wood and were gon na break the top of the tumbler , so he stop and out and scrubbed it and found that was this bone and I think if my memory serve me right that 's in the , the Fleet Museum now . |
| 15 | There is , of course , an enormous difference between the private/public demands of the two examples : writing my own private notes protects me rather more than having publicly to make suggestions on how the teacher as ‘ patient ’ should , say , knock on a door . |
| 16 | Even so , it cost me rather more of my American dollars than I expected . |
| 17 | Jack had seen them all many times . |
| 18 | His round had been long and arduous , and he was thinking how pleasant it would be to see and tease McAllister and ask her to serve them all some home-made lemonade . |
| 19 | It takes them all some time to understand it . |
| 20 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 21 | James brought them all more drinks . |
| 22 | If that market open up , it could require nothing less that a Sovpac . |
| 23 | The fact that Branson had not a clue what ‘ synergy ’ meant was just one sign that he found the understanding between them somewhat less than ‘ magical ’ . |
| 24 | It 's taken me long enough god knows but |
| 25 | It had about 164,000 regulars , of whom only some 80,000 were on more than a three-year engagement . |
| 26 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 27 | It is hardly decent to envy the baby to whom so much is owed . |
| 28 | Could the others have been examples of the ‘ leasemongers ’ on whom so much opprobrium was heaped ? |
| 29 | Worst of all , while I was in Bedford there came news of the disaster at Arnhem , with its tragic loss of parachute and glider-borne troops , of whom so many were posted as missing , and my imagination was set working yet more frenziedly . |
| 30 | I wish you good luck in the name of Jesus Christ , the Emancipator , whom so many of your opponents blaspheme . ’ |