Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished suddenly that she had met him under different circumstances : not as Jenny 's boy friend ; not as her fellow beneficiary in Aunt Alicia 's will . |
| 2 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 3 | Hope walked back into Grasmere even more thoughtfully than he had left it . |
| 4 | So once you 've done it you ca n't sell any more even though there are two or three people in the wings saying can I go into it . |
| 5 | Life has many other prizes to offer if you are clear enough that you want to claim them . |
| 6 | Was n't it enough that he had violated her ? |
| 7 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 8 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 9 | In our personal encounter with Christ , we begin to distinguish how we have naturally tried to please him , instead of allowing his love to enter our hearts so that we begin to love him with his gift of love to us . |
| 10 | But in the 1950s the first wave of modern consumerism transformed people 's lifestyles so that they came to expect it to be right and natural that they should have consumer durables ( and increasingly non-durable goods ) . |
| 11 | He says horror films and books often portray snakes as monsters ; now he wants people to get to know his reptiles so that they stop fearing them . |
| 12 | He used to pop out and use a pay phone , ringing publishers at awkward times like lunch time so that they had to ring him back . |
| 13 | Let's see if we can move them on this year so that they start to think it 's a charity I know I really want to support . |
| 14 | In Britain , condoms are available over the counter and from slot machines , so that anyone wishing to purchase them can do so . |
| 15 | She was a devout appeaser , totally apathetic about world politics , but quite positive about Charles Willoughby ; so much so that she 'd allowed him to move into her flat in the enormous new block facing south across the river to the huge but fairly new Battersea Power Station . |
| 16 | He grabbed her , reaching over to where she sat at the end of the sofa , turning her roughly by the arm so that she had to face him , had to look deep into his angry , ice-blue eyes . |
| 17 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 18 | And then , horizontally down the spine , so that he had to turn it round to read it in the light of a street lamp . |
| 19 | A gentle breeze broke the absolute silence , moving the curtain so that he had to steady it with his hand . |
| 20 | to it so that you prefer to use it to the other one . |
| 21 | So you 'd have to start looking for these patterns , but you need to build up to those , build up your experience so that you 've seen them . |
| 22 | So when you see a pair of horses move round and so that you do get them separated as they are , or any animal , not just horses , any animals really , get them separated , er or any , any object really , it 's better to have a little bit of separation . |
| 23 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 24 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 25 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 26 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 27 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 28 | Regan declares her love to be identical with Goneril 's , only that she has understated it ( we had scarce thought it possible to go beyond Goneril ) : To claim that your love for your father exceeds all the joys which can be derived from the senses — with your newly wedded husband standing by — is to claim too much . |
| 29 | ‘ Only that he 'd known you , that you might like to have the letters and the statue . ’ |
| 30 | I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me . |