Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the last thing I want to say , because I know we , our guest is here , and so presumably has collected his thoughts and is able to leap into the breach , the last thing I want to say on this is , writing articles , writing pieces , is a game , another area where practice makes perfect . |
| 2 | Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England . |
| 3 | But you can be absolutely sure that , if that is the position of your business , somebody else somewhere has got your card marked as an easy number and is about to take you by surprise . |
| 4 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 5 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
| 6 | Making hats for a living and looking at them all day long has mellowed her taste somewhat . |
| 7 | The affection I feel for you personally has led me , if anything , to understate it . |
| 8 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 9 | Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned . |
| 10 | It is not related to the true eels but looks superficially like them and so has acquired their popular name . |
| 11 | Well , so United won one nil , so did Witney , that was in the Beezer Homes League southern division . |
| 12 | The lack of detail in recalls made it impossible to adequately divide information into central and peripheral , however , in the sense that most information given was related to events on the road , the information which was recalled should probably be categorized as largely central to the task of driving . |
| 13 | All the commissions , and you only get paid I say only you get paid commission on the first year . |
| 14 | I should perhaps have made it a giant . |
| 15 | Also , once we started I 'd find it very hard to stop , and you may perhaps have forgotten I was due to race today ? ’ |
| 16 | At this stage , David Stirling might perhaps have allowed himself a moment or two of self-congratulation . |
| 17 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 18 | He could perhaps have changed something . ’ |
| 19 | There are ways of abasing oneself — though Prior Robert would perhaps have managed them with better grace had things gone otherwise ! — as a means of exalting oneself . |
| 20 | In some of these the non-assertive quality of the utterance is fairly easy to perceive nevertheless : ( 66 ) He dared as much have opposed his wife 's whims as he dare have committed high treason . |
| 21 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
| 22 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 23 | He must surely have supposed that Alpheus was shown in the southern gable-corner , Cladeus in the north ; and if the designer intended these figures for the rivers he would naturally have set them so . |
| 24 | Both writers and readers are affected by generally accepted ideas , without necessarily having given them independent thought . |
| 25 | Once , she would not only have poured his coffee for him , she would have spooned in the sugar and stirred it for him , too . |
| 26 | I could only have believed what I have seen . |
| 27 | True , she 'd escaped Fincara , but Fincara would only have bewitched her , not killed her . |
| 28 | If so , it would only have increased his feeling of vulnerability and awkwardness for , until he had come to recognize that he was not going to be the greatest poet of the age after Yeats , Lewis was always hostile to poets . |
| 29 | The episode could only have increased his distrust of authority and his disdain for the bourgeois . |
| 30 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |