Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |
| 2 | For all their bluster about foreign conspiracy , the foreigners who worry them most live not in the United States or Western Europe but in Hungary , Poland and the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 4 | The labour movement has made hardly any use of its own scholars and intellectuals , and gives them little support , so that many drift through higher education into roles that have little relationship with their origins and aspirations . |
| 5 | He recruited two Iranian brothers who were already British agents and brought them secretly tot eh Unties States for further training . |
| 6 | The white boys admire the cheek of the black lad who nicks their Kentucky'n'chips , as well as wanting to beat him up for it , just as many of them secretly envy and try to emulate the black street style which at another level they experience as so invasive . |
| 7 | ‘ See what yer mean , Joe , me neighbourly visit . |
| 8 | Most travellers consider them irritatingly slow over distances of more than 150 metres . |
| 9 | The matter that has given me most cause for admiration is the way in which he has conducted himself while the horrible events have gone on and been reported in the press . |
| 10 | On most of the album Shaun puts his fingerstyle technique to good use on his Warwick five-string , but this track sounds to me suspiciously like he 's using his ‘ 68 Fender Jazz Bass with both pickups full on . |
| 11 | So those who know me intimately insist . ’ |
| 12 | Although most of them rarely attend , hereditary peers could still , if they so wished , dominate the proceedings of the House of Lords , and it occasionally happens , when a matter of vital and controversial national concern , such as the abolition of hanging , galvanises them , that many more than usual attend . |
| 13 | Arboreal rodents , primates , and many other mammals take to the trees as an escape route and the majority of them rarely risk a descent to the ground unless it is vitally necessary . |
| 14 | ‘ It actually , ’ said Emma , raising a hand to her face and brushing it across her eyes , ‘ made me rather weep , listening to her . |
| 15 | I did so erm partly because this seems the most useful approach for an audience , not all of whom perhaps have read in detail the fifteen volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu , erm and partly because he in fact offers a very interesting challenge , I think , at this precise level . |
| 16 | It made me suddenly realise how much they had changed . |
| 17 | ‘ Why is everyone so upset ? |
| 18 | Though if you give them enough notice they can do almost anything … |
| 19 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 20 | ( The first block has given them enough experience to pinpoint their anxieties more accurately , but not enough to overcome them . ) |
| 21 | All of them endlessly finish spaghetti . |
| 22 | Some of them apparently feel that the move flies in the face of the philosophy expressed in the document prepared by the task force which examined the way ahead for BBC Scotland . |
| 23 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 24 | No I think that 's probably alright , they do have them long do n't they ? |
| 25 | It was a disappointing performance by the Bears for whom only Mark Lemon and the determined Odom took the chequered flag . |
| 26 | that disputes will be settled by the witness ( grandmother ) , whom all agree to be objective and fair-minded . |
| 27 | ‘ Praise ye the Lord to whom all praise is due . |
| 28 | I 've always had sweaty feet ever since you married me so do n't start . |
| 29 | And he goes to me , he goes to me so have you thought about my , my suggestion of pottery , I went yeah , and I threw it out the window . |
| 30 | Other people with less ability have overtaken him on the ladder and it makes me so cross . |