Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barak instinctively stuffed them back into his pocket then rubbed his hands together nervously . |
| 2 | It is , of course , at least as much development as exposition , and the Hagen very properly repeat it , then intelligently pressing the music forward in a constant increase in intensity ( with the major-key suggestions throwing that into strong relief ) right the way through the movement . |
| 3 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 4 | If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble . |
| 5 | The CECOS surveyors make it clear that the drinking problem which most concerned them and was undoubtedly of serious proportions in their sample , was by no means confined to men ( indeed their condemnations of drinking mothers are particularly sharp ) but one can certainly detect a mainly female temperance counter-current in the survey , apparently connected to religious observance.21 ( A male informant remembered during the inter-war period " a lady keyboard operator [ who ] used to get out her Bible and have a wee read " , at idle moments . ) |
| 6 | And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’ |
| 7 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 8 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 9 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
| 10 | We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau . |
| 11 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 12 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 13 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 14 | In more dramatic terms , the downgrading of domestic industries reflects the success of the transnational capitalist class in dragging them into the global economy and thereby transforming them , even in a rather minimal sense , into transnational industries . |
| 15 | Implicit within the ruling was the concept that once an abortion restriction had been upheld in one state , other states could implement it , an interpretation which effectively made it more difficult to challenge the imposition by individual states of restrictions as long as they were within the guidelines established by the Court 's ruling in June 1992 on Roe v. Wade [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 16 | Ormanroyd wins the header Speedy flicks it on again and Chettle er Chettle rather got it away as Jochim came in on him . |
| 17 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 18 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 19 | But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once . |
| 20 | What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ? |
| 21 | He successfully fought them off and they fled empty-handed . |
| 22 | However , people have since realised they have been lured into a debt trap aimed at bringing the working class to heel , with unemployment the main weapon . |
| 23 | Anwar asked Changez and me to wash the floor of the shop , thinking that perhaps I could successfully supervise him . |
| 24 | In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged . |
| 25 | All were of the highest technical calibre and all displayed an extraordinary range of exuberant and exotic motifs , For a few years , until Justinian effectively eclipsed it by his construction of the church of St Sophia in 532–537 , st Polyeuktos was evidently the largest and most sumptuous church in Istanbul ( Constantinople ) . |
| 26 | and I 'd rather make it , it went all the way up to there |
| 27 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 28 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 29 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 30 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |