Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all their bluster about foreign conspiracy , the foreigners who worry them most live not in the United States or Western Europe but in Hungary , Poland and the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'll bring them little divils back to the house for ye , mam . |
| 4 | ‘ But this is the bit that took me longest to work out . |
| 5 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 6 | One of them discreetly asks how the other 's business is doing . |
| 7 | Most travellers consider them irritatingly slow over distances of more than 150 metres . |
| 8 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 9 | Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting . |
| 10 | It made me suddenly realise how much they had changed . |
| 11 | What happened was that the rope they 'd put on me suddenly pulled tight . |
| 12 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 13 | But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on . |
| 14 | This will give me better control over any fish I may hook , for they will no doubt try to charge into the lilies on either side of the swim . |
| 15 | It did n't take me long to find out otherwise . |
| 16 | Besides , it did n't take me long to figure out I was wrong . ’ |
| 17 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 18 | If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through . |
| 19 | No I think that 's probably alright , they do have them long do n't they ? |
| 20 | I 've always had sweaty feet ever since you married me so do n't start . |
| 21 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
| 22 | ‘ Nothing especially to look out for ? ’ |
| 23 | Most of them only looked about 15 years old . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | The sort of argument just presented emphasizes that large organizations are not monolithic and that attempts to tighten up the system to make them so do not necessarily yield improvements . |
| 26 | Eddie Gray is an occasional Radio 5 match commentator and does a lot of sports writing in the upmarket tabloids ( I do n't read them so do n't ask me which one ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And as they get into , as you say , power and I quite agree somebody has a talk with them so look here |
| 29 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 30 | with this , a all the benefits are , you get them personally do n't you ? |