Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 2 | And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’ |
| 3 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 4 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 5 | However , people have since realised they have been lured into a debt trap aimed at bringing the working class to heel , with unemployment the main weapon . |
| 6 | They 've even subpoena 'd Unigram.X little realising we print everything we know . |
| 7 | They were not even deterred by some afternoon rain but carried on enjoying themselves kitted out in colourful Mickey Mouse ponchos . |
| 8 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 9 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 10 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 11 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 12 | ‘ Val would presumably prefer you did n't get arrested . ’ |
| 13 | Benjamin politely asked him to wait . |
| 14 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 15 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 16 | Sometime during the night , I was woken by my cold feet , a warm weight on my chest and the loudest purr I had ever heard . |
| 17 | Ms Wendy Mountford was living in a house belonging to Mr Roger Street , under a written agreement headed " Licence " , in which she expressly agreed she had no Rent Act protection . |
| 18 | And the thought of Leo actually kissing her properly made her feel positively ill ! |
| 19 | They mostly make you talk . ’ |
| 20 | Feminists were effectively articulating what had been implicit in much of moral purity — an opposition to the idea that the male sexual urge was uncontrollable , and that frequent intercourse was necessary for men 's health . |
| 21 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 22 | During these pauses he would leer in the hope that his lady friend would fill in the gaps , thereby allowing him to save his energy for later . |
| 23 | The agency gave assurances that this new evidence had been passed to the relevant prosecuting authorities , and it was this which had led to the prosecutors ' decision to withdraw from their plea bargain arrangement with Drogoul , thereby allowing him to change his plea to innocent . |
| 24 | Thinking that if he ignored her , did n't show even a whisper of interest in her , she would give up and go home under her own steam , thereby allowing her to rescue some of her dignity . |
| 25 | ‘ The purpose of the administration order is to allow the company an opportunity of finding an investor or partner thereby allowing it to survive , ’ said Jason Elles . |
| 26 | ( ii ) It is probably clear to the reader that , although we are trying to work formally and to assume nothing other than that given , we do not choose our definitions of unc and unc in a perfectly random fashion , but rather make them reflect what we want to happen . |
| 27 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 28 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 29 | A FILM studio manageress who claimed her boss said she was ‘ the worst lay I 've ever tried to have ’ was awarded £1,000 yesterday . |
| 30 | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world . |