Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While al most all the routines work very fast indeed the Circle is amazingly slow , any suggestions as to why would be gladly received as there seems to be no obvious answer . |
| 2 | I saw one in the box once when she was trying her pearls on to see if they went with one of the dresses . |
| 3 | Push , push it back there , then you can carry on eating if you want to , then you can sit there |
| 4 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 5 | In most research studies of bereaved people it is recorded time and time again that , so long as the people involved have somewhere to go and someone to talk to about this major loss in their life , then they may well cope . |
| 6 | On that occasion I had the hardest fight of my career and my prominent nose was badly broken before I won on points . |
| 7 | David acknowledged the complexity of Peru 's problems yet he remained an optimist , becoming most heated when he talked about those who repeated endlessly that Peru was a poor country . |
| 8 | You know , I 'd rather wait until you know till |
| 9 | A crumb of chocolate stuck to her lip , where Coffin watched it slowly melt as he spoke to her . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you enjoy seeing your father 's studio ? ’ she suddenly asked and it seemed to Jenna that not only did Alain stiffen alarmingly but Marguerite appeared to ice over . |
| 11 | One patient was only diagnosed when he presented with small bowel lymphoma . |
| 12 | The government responded to this pressure : the Bill differed in some respects from the White Paper , and the Bill itself was constantly amended as it went through Parliament . |
| 13 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 14 | He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book . |
| 15 | We may say that a criterion of legal validity or source of law is supreme if rules identified by reference to it are still recognized as rules of the system , even if they conflict with rules identified by reference to the other criteria , whereas rules identified by reference to the latter are not so recognized if they conflict with the rules identified by reference to the supreme criterion . |
| 16 | So say if we have to we have to . |
| 17 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 18 | But we will only win if you vote for us on 3rd May . |
| 19 | But we will only win if you vote for us on 3rd May . |
| 20 | Lothian Highways can only survive if it operates as a TEAM . |
| 21 | He only stopped when he felt like it . |
| 22 | Kate felt inordinately pleased at his offer , even though she was astute enough to know that it came from a desire for any company , rather than hers specifically . |
| 23 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 24 | Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders . |
| 25 | Fabia saw no point in butting in to comment that she had in fact come very close to doing that very thing , and after a few moments ' pause Ven went on , ‘ I knew I 'd bruised your pride , but that had been necessary when my desire for you had threatened to blot out reason . |
| 26 | Spring 1992 and the Spitfire was wheeled out of the hangar and engine runs commenced , only to find that there appeared to be oil pressure problems until finally the engine would not start at all , in fact the Merlin was locked solid . |
| 27 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 28 | The number of matrices B which diagonalise A in this manner is indefinitely large : to prove the theorem we need only show that it holds for any two . |
| 29 | He expressed dismay at the fact that the State President had failed to respond to the list of demands — mostly aimed at curtailing township violence — that the ANC had said should be sufficiently met before it returned to the negotiating table [ see p. 38948 ] . |
| 30 | In fact , that was only done as I walked through the door . |