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 It 's so annoying when they just come up to your window whether you want it cleaned or not they just clean it .
28 A disclosure of data under the act is only unauthorized if they knowingly give it to someone who is not entitled to it .
29 Dennis 's unwitting participation in our mating was so exciting that we soon overcame any lingering doubts about the risks involved .
30 Indeed this is so clear that I sometimes wonder why so much effort usually goes into attempting to prove it .
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