Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following evening Penry rang again , but this time he spoke to Elise , who was rather mystified when he politely declined to speak to Leonora . |
| 2 | It was rather grubby so we just painted it all white and , as I suspected , David 's imagination , after it was painted , came into heavy play . |
| 3 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's the classic green and reds with a simple check that prove the most popular and we often recolour tartans in various forms . |
| 5 | It was most inconvenient and she often wished he would leave her alone . |
| 6 | Some of ‘ Up In Downsville ’ is so laid-back that it simply wafts around your ears like tobacco smoke and they have an irritating habit of pulling their potential punches for fear of treading on someone 's daisies . |
| 7 | Sometimes these first impressions are so strong that they stubbornly linger and defy revision even when different signals are being transmitted by subsequent visual behaviours . |
| 8 | There were some constituencies where the interest of a local patron was so strong that he effectively had the power of nominating MPs . |
| 9 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 10 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 11 | ‘ The feeling was so strong that I actually felt quite emotional — almost tearful , ’ says Julie . |
| 12 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 13 | Through the first course , clear soup so strong that it almost jellied in an empty soup plate , he talked to Aunt Tossie while she supped up her soup delightedly and gave him gardening secrets for his mother . |
| 14 | The self-image of older people is closely linked with morale , which for many has sunk so low that they often do not wish to continue living . |
| 15 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 16 | Betty was so low that she somehow contrived to hurt her finger quite badly with a clove that she was sticking into an onion . |
| 17 | Mr Knight was so upset that he immediately resigned his seats on Essex County , Tendring District and Harwich Town councils . |
| 18 | And very upset that she looked so awful because we always thought she looked so lovely . |
| 19 | At that the king 's son was so sorry that he nearly died himself . |
| 20 | His musical memory was so acute that he once confounded a friend of his father 's , the court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner , by insisting that Schachtner 's violin had been tuned exactly an eighth of a tone ( a tiny but noticeable fraction ) lower than Wolfgang 's own when he had last heard it — a fact that the astonished Schachtner was able to verify . |
| 21 | B'ham West Branch 's recent ‘ Home Birth ’ study day was so over-subscribed that they now have an account of the day available from , , price £1 . |
| 22 | Yet as the evidence is unfolded it becomes increasingly incongruous that the mandarins of Whitehall should claim so little when they patently control so much . |
| 23 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 24 | Firstly , a couple of birds were scared up out of a nearby bush by his call ; and secondly , there was a detonation so loud that he almost felt it as a physical shockwave . |
| 25 | He was so ample that he completely filled one side of the table , and a heavenly smile suffused his round pink face as he said : ‘ My favourite of all the wines is — rose petal . ’ |
| 26 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 27 | Perhaps I should mention now I mean I I I 'm not fill in questionnaire 's but it would it would be helpful if you actually did erm fill in that before you actually leave this evening and leave it on the on the table on the way out if that 's possible I think that , that information which you put on them would be useful . |
| 28 | It 's so annoying when they just come up to your window whether you want it cleaned or not they just clean it . |
| 29 | A disclosure of data under the act is only unauthorized if they knowingly give it to someone who is not entitled to it . |
| 30 | Dennis 's unwitting participation in our mating was so exciting that we soon overcame any lingering doubts about the risks involved . |