Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think this is because for the last five months I was pregnant I was so withdrawn and would n't talk to anybody — would n't go out of the house , I used to sit upstairs or here hoping she would n't kick too hard and my dad would n't see anything . |
| 2 | The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke . |
| 3 | By contrast , Message Queue Interface works in a time-independent fashion ; requests are queued to be sent to the remote machine and if anything goes wrong they are automatically remembered and re-tried without the application having to do any work at all . |
| 4 | For this he was thrice arrested and interrogated . |
| 5 | When he saw this he was further enraged and started towards the seer with an axe . |
| 6 | In fact the success rate at Howard was so high it was once queried and re-checked . |
| 7 | Again it may not be thought to be particularly helpful that God in God 's undifferentiated nature ( or indeed the Spirit in its rather vague nature ) are to be understood as ‘ female ’ , while ‘ divine energies ’ ( sic ) , that which is clearly differentiated and self-determining , is to be seen as ‘ male ’ . |
| 8 | The teacher joined a group of three who were spontaneously cutting and pasting paper crowns for themselves . |
| 9 | In the early summer of 1940 he was quietly retired and he died at Emberton , Olney , Buckinghamshire , 27 March 1942 . |
| 10 | My mother had a complaint today , your family 's old feller but she said , whenever you get a better she 's always goes and sees somebody else . |
| 11 | On the other hand she was never hard on us and never unsympathetic ; she looked after us , made sure we were properly fed and clothed , that we went to bed at a reasonable time — all that sort of thing . ’ |
| 12 | Make sure they are well balanced and will not slip off . |
| 13 | He invited scores of congressmen and journalists , civic officials and academics to visit Iran and made sure they were lavishly received and entertained . |
| 14 | The type of product being manufactured by a company can be classified in the simplest possible manner into two distinct groups ; those which are technically overconstrained and those which are underconstrained . |
| 15 | The second is by looking at the patterns of coin finds , both those revealed by coins deposited in hoards and those which were casually lost and have been recovered in modern times by chance , by treasure hunting or by archaeological excavation . |
| 16 | The weather is so unpredictable that only those who are well equipped and experienced walkers should attempt the high tops . |
| 17 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 18 | Those who are fully qualified and members of the British Mountaineering Council include . |
| 19 | There must be no lecturing to those who are hardest hit and no attempt to suggest that a fuss is being made about nothing . |
| 20 | The Treasury also opposed contributory pensions , objecting to the cost of setting up the machinery to collect contributions , to keep the necessary records and to make payments , in addition to the cost of paying pensions to those who were already aged and could make no contribution . |
| 21 | In the two generations which followed the death of Louis XIV it was further extended and elaborated . |
| 22 | He thinks of his show — 6am until 9am — like a relationship ‘ in that it 's constantly changing and looking for a balance . |
| 23 | I think you will destroy them ; you are a ruthless woman ; how ruthless I am yet to know and am just beginning to discern . |
| 24 | For Sheila to be committed to the partnership and agreement it is vital it is openly negotiated and freely entered into . |
| 25 | There are many instances of this use of the single gesture for spinning or threading a needle and making a stitch or two which are easily understood and recognised by an audience . |
| 26 | There are 3 arm spines of which the middle one is distinctly enlarged and may be laterally compressed . |
| 27 | On 8 January 1959 he was officially inaugurated and two days later formed the first government of the new republic , headed by Michel Debré . |