Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 2 | Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting . |
| 3 | What happened was that the rope they 'd put on me suddenly pulled tight . |
| 4 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 5 | Most of them only looked about 15 years old . |
| 6 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 7 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 8 | And as they get into , as you say , power and I quite agree somebody has a talk with them so look here |
| 9 | That does n't mean to say that you 'd have let them necessarily get away with it on the spot but you you 're still going to do a persuasive tact but in the end if they say no fine . |
| 10 | Zak and I instinctively went nearer , he in front , I in his shadow . |
| 11 | I instinctively looked away , the way children do when they see something naughty , as though witnessing it might incriminate them . |
| 12 | I told Joan de Warenne I would return in May , Edward thought — I little knew then that such calamity and change of fortune would summon me hither ! |
| 13 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 14 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 15 | At the end of the rue Victorie , past the Café du Coin , was a road I rarely took alone , and never with Didier . |
| 16 | I rarely think now about the strangeness of the job , I simply enjoy the wonderful views and the job satisfaction I achieve . |
| 17 | I never paint landscapes and I rarely travel abroad . |
| 18 | I duly did so , and returned to my seat . |
| 19 | One of the things I most remember about 1971 was my favourite artist , Kenneth Noland , deciding that he wanted his annual income to pass through the million-dollar barrier . |
| 20 | I mostly do now is hers . |
| 21 | When I eventually got downstairs she said to my Dad , ‘ Tell him his breakfast 's in the oven if he wants it . ’ |
| 22 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 23 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
| 24 | As a man , a white , a heterosexual , from a capitalist country , the country she tried to free , I have no right , you may think , to stand on this platform , but I gladly do so in order to salute her . |
| 25 | I rather thought just wanted to contrast it with the other case and er it may not be obvious to the jury but why , why did you want a shot gun that 's a little shorter ? |
| 26 | ‘ I rather thought so . ’ |
| 27 | Would I rather exercise alone , with a friend or in a group ? |
| 28 | These were the deep furrows etched in the sand to help the Nairn transport , but I rather think more so to help the pilots of the period to find their way across the route from Rutbah Wells to Damascus , or indeed from Baghdad to Rutbah Wells . |
| 29 | I apparently walked straight past her , but I do n't think she saw that . |
| 30 | ‘ I think I better go soon , I know you have a lot to talk about . ’ |