Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cattle , herded down to it along drove-ways used from time immemorial , slowly graze across its moist levels . |
| 2 | Some humans can recognise consciousness in plants and effectively communicate with them . |
| 3 | Who had the most influence on your screen career . |
| 4 | The moon causes another rhythm , which has little influence on us but is of profound importance to life along the shore , and that is the rhythm of the tides . |
| 5 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 6 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 7 | Right place for him ! ’ |
| 8 | But then I lose what I most want from it , that it be in a room with other objects . |
| 9 | One of the soldiers stood in front of her , presumably awestruck behind his or her faceplate . |
| 10 | Well , stay there for tonight and tomorrow anyway , but I 'll find somewhere better for you . |
| 11 | They were ripe and plump , she reflected , worthy of caress , and the grasped her right bicep in her left hand . |
| 12 | Central planners uncomfortable with the confusion and uncertainty of the market-place will also be pleased to learn that the consumer will have little say in what he wears : ‘ Various shades of red , blue and grey will be in favour , ’ the agency announced . |
| 13 | ‘ Labels ’ seemed to be highly constraining ; once applied , the receivers seemed to have little say in what happened to them . |
| 14 | She stood rooted to the spot , staring back at him as though hypnotized , watching the skin of his face slowly tauten across his cheekbones . |
| 15 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 16 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 17 | The nicest and the nastiest all suffer from it . |
| 18 | We only discriminate between our mediated experiences by a conscious effort , finding ourselves watching comedy , beauty contests and international disasters from the same chair . |
| 19 | That looks incompatible with gaucherie , and perhaps is , but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives . |
| 20 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 21 | Ah yeah well they perhaps mean from his wrist then . |
| 22 | He suffered for you , so suffer for him . |
| 23 | Every is going to be female , now does that mean to say , that if no males apply , or if you only advertise for someone female , which I presumably erm , actually going to er run the impossibly do it . |
| 24 | ‘ Why are you being so mean to me ? ’ he demanded , sprawling full-length across the bed , despite his promise to sleep on the couch , and unloosening his tie . |
| 25 | Forgive me for being so mean to you ? |
| 26 | I also said that banks were not sufficiently up-front about their charges and made some suggestions for changes , such as displaying a poster in each branch and printing details on statements . |
| 27 | Two of them ( the men , I mean ) became quite fond of John during the short time he was with them , and expressed much regret at his leaving , begging him to come again and to bring his gin , meaning his wife , with him . ’ |
| 28 | I to say , that erm , I would of liked to be highly commend with her , but , I do n't really think , not . |
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