Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They know he 's not gon na be there for for ever , I E you know , he 'll want to move on or they perhaps will move on . |
| 2 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 3 | Cassie knew suddenly that she desperately wanted to see her mother and father before they left England . |
| 4 | He let her go so suddenly that she almost fell . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 6 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 7 | To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers . |
| 8 | So although they also may submit it to us as part of their assessment for a project , I mean we 're at least as interested in the work being useful to the schools and to the students involved . |
| 9 | Dr Neil stepped back so swiftly that she almost fell ; he seized her by the shoulders and held her from him . |
| 10 | I did n't see her often , but whenever we met she would complain gently that they never went anywhere because Derek was always so busy or the babbas were teething or undergoing the whooping cough . |
| 11 | Recently , composer-conductors like Pierre Boulez or Oliver Knussen have cajoled orchestras into playing better than they ever knew how , by extending their technique , especially in contemporary repertoire . |
| 12 | In the other fields I 've discussed earlier — public speaking appearing on television , staging a special event , holding a conference , you can ( but you should n't ) kid yourself that they went better than they really did . |
| 13 | There 's no way that we can ever hope to get along better than we already do ! ’ |
| 14 | It hardly needs emphasizing that on any question that is interesting , such as social roles of the sexes , we would have to be able to read the historical record better than we now can in order to arrive at any strong conclusions about what is biologically discouraged . |
| 15 | I ca n't claim it is original because I stole the idea from Dan Dailey in Mother Wore Tights , although it is possible I do it better than him now . |
| 16 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 17 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 18 | I 've written you poems better than I ever dreamed I could write … ’ |
| 19 | Books and tapes of TV programmes record the genesis and growth of Grove House , The Bristol Cancer Help Centre better than I ever could . |
| 20 | Mother was a grand player , of course … much better than I ever was … but she thought I might do better if someone else taught me , and she was such a busy person with all those old people to care for and Daddy ailing like he was . |
| 21 | I feel now that I can express myself better than I ever could in the last fifteen years ; I 've even gotten into the Mississippi Delta style , fingerpicking blues . |
| 22 | These are not my words , they are the Lolita chap , Nabokov 's , but they express better than I ever could my feelings . |
| 23 | ‘ Better than I ever imagined . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But not quite so mercenary , and I find it exceedingly distasteful for you to arrogantly assume you might understand my sister a great deal better than I ever could . |
| 25 | It is notable that he does not see himself abandoning epistemology , but as continuing it , doing it better than it previously had been done . |
| 26 | I know this district better than you ever will , and I say it was a neighbourhood crime . |
| 27 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 28 | But there were some rules he knew better than she ever would . |
| 29 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 30 | It was the beginning of a love far deeper than he ever realised . |