Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll want somewhere where you can either have it hanging |
| 2 | If you do n't have a garage , park as close to your home as possible , preferably somewhere where you can easily observe the car . |
| 3 | Then in her full , sad , serious voice , ‘ Perhaps I shall regret it , more perhaps than you will ever know , you foolish girl . |
| 4 | Surely if you had seen your child only once you would always remember it . |
| 5 | And on they sped so swiftly that she might almost have cried out with Ostanes , less in trepidation than delight , ‘ Save me , O God , for I stand between two exalted brilliances … |
| 6 | Well after a while the bricks got hot enough that you could just adjust the valve to where the stove would get almost cherry red and it was a very nice fire . |
| 7 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 8 | This is why it is so important to have soul-friends , who sometimes know us better than we can ever know ourselves . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh remembered her whispered confidence to Theresa in the car , the child 's intent face and brief transforming smile , and thought that she understood one child at least far better than she would probably claim . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ The rig was in about six feet of water , much deeper than she would normally go . |
| 11 | The letters were squeezed together so you could hardly read them . |
| 12 | As the discipline develops , the amalgamation of groups of practitioners having particular issues as central becomes clearer , so that one might even talk of specific ‘ schools ’ within the discipline . |
| 13 | Burns triumphantly hijacks this image by extending the golden substance to the borders of manhood — ‘ a man 's a man for a ’ that' , so that one could properly ask for ‘ one man , one vote ’ . |
| 14 | There were fruit trees amongst the flowers , here a pear tree , there a currant bush , so that one could either smell a rose , crush a verbena , or eat a fruit ; there were borders of box , but also of sorrel and chibol ; and the stiff battalion of leeks , shallots , and garlic , the delicate pale-green foliage of the carrot , the aggressive steel-grey leaves of the artichokes , the rows of lettuce which always ran to seed too quickly . |
| 15 | There was no distraction other than a poignant roll of rags in which a baglady scuffled , and snow fell so that one could almost smell the cold . |
| 16 | Just by glancing at the first chapter of the book you feel a sort of ‘ zing ’ that brings them together , so much so that one could never rate one higher than the other . |
| 17 | For instance , the whole episode of the homosexual 's gingerly desperate ‘ coming out ’ in a hostile society is achieved in a genuinely moving manner , so that one can easily forgive the hesitancies and lack of narrative drive that is sometimes apparent elsewhere . |
| 18 | Thus the bits will fit together after fracture so that one can often glue a broken vase together quite plausibly . |
| 19 | But one need not believe that God revealed God 's self at a particular point in history , so that one need necessarily make reference to that point in history in one 's religion . |
| 20 | Caroline Morrell , from OCADU , do you want to press your button , Caroline , so that everybody will please sit down normally and naturally , and maybe moved a bit closer to you , they 'll pick up what you 're saying . |
| 21 | About two million acres of waste have been enclosed by act since 1700 , so that we may reasonably assume that at the beginning of the eighteenth century there were about seven million acres of ‘ waste ’ all told rather than the ten million estimated by Gregory King . |
| 22 | Erm so that we may well have to link in to the training programme and go back and check , for instance in three where I 've talked about the business plans . |
| 23 | All that we ask is for sufficient land so that we may then help ourselves . |
| 24 | Erm so that we could actually produce about two hundred annual reports if we wanted , but we |
| 25 | ‘ He was always moving the goalposts so that we could never anticipate what he wanted . ’ |
| 26 | We had to keep them heading out to sea as long as possible , so that we could fully clear it on our return tack . |
| 27 | Backing up Bedu admirably were Rita and Jean , who worked hard and paced us well , so that we could still walk after hours of exercise . |
| 28 | It is that reason can come to play a central part in one 's life , so that we can properly talk of ‘ a life of reason ’ . |
| 29 | Our testing system measures meaningful data from power tubes under actual performance conditions so that we can closely match the tonal characteristics and produce a set of tubes with consistency of performance , better harmonic balance , more sustain and longer usable life . |
| 30 | I 'll borrow my brother 's Lambretta so that we can just sit for a whole hour and then I 'll drive you home . |