Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [subord] [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 | On that occasion I had the hardest fight of my career and my prominent nose was badly broken before I won on points . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You know , I 'd rather wait until you know till |
| 7 | A crumb of chocolate stuck to her lip , where Coffin watched it slowly melt as he spoke to her . |
| 8 | One patient was only diagnosed when he presented with small bowel lymphoma . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So say if we have to we have to . |
| 13 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 14 | But we will only win if you vote for us on 3rd May . |
| 15 | But we will only win if you vote for us on 3rd May . |
| 16 | Lothian Highways can only survive if it operates as a TEAM . |
| 17 | He only stopped when he felt like it . |
| 18 | ( 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | In fact , that was only done as I walked through the door . |
| 21 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 22 | The Nones were so named because they occurred on the ‘ ninth ’ day before the Ides . |
| 23 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 24 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 25 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 26 | Students at that time could apparently choose when they wished to be examined ( after the continental custom ) as there was no fixed examination schedule as we know it . |
| 27 | I 'm only going cos I got to . |
| 28 | Elderly people can be greatly helped if we listen to what they want to say , and receive their information as important . |
| 29 | The amount of discretion relative to the amount of prescribed action only increases as one moves to higher occupational strata , thus allowing the enlargement and fulfilment of personal needs . |
| 30 | The jurisdiction to quash a decision only exists when there has in fact been an error of law . |