Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 2 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 3 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 4 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 5 | In those days we had to use an oil wool , which was all right after you washed it , if somewhat coarse . |
| 6 | It seemed to go down all right so he cleared his throat . |
| 7 | The princess kissed the frog and he did n't turn into a handsome prince but that was all right because she liked him as a frog . |
| 8 | It smelled all right when she got it out of the oven . |
| 9 | And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out . |
| 10 | People were nevertheless quick to identify an interested argument and they did not feel disagreements less keenly because they understated them . |
| 11 | He could never trust his legs , especially when his shoes pinched so badly that they made his feet tingle and twitch with pins and needles . |
| 12 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 13 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 14 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 15 | She was about to put the binoculars down ashamedly when he lifted his eyes from the paper . |
| 16 | She sat back , closing her eyes , incapable of coherent thought , and then , so slowly that she found herself holding her breath , a tiny spark kindled inside : they had talked through a tangle of mistakes , yet somewhere in it there was something else . |
| 17 | It was something which Morton itched to do — perhaps only because he knew it was impossible . |
| 18 | This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it . |
| 19 | So much so that I bought his only copy of it , and earned his cordial loathing . |
| 20 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 21 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 22 | Worried , she fussed around him , so much so that he gripped her hand . |
| 23 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 24 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 25 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 26 | John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’ |
| 27 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 28 | He leaned down so that she saw his whole face was alight with a slightly satirical amusement . |
| 29 | He says it 's so long since he saw you and the girls that he wo n't know you . |
| 30 | I think he held the reins back and smiled at the camera ; so long since he did it . |