Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lost 3 stone while he was in prison , so now none of his old clothing fits him . |
| 2 | A highly motivated individual , it is argued , will perform better than one with a low level of motivation . |
| 3 | I emphasize ‘ in my view ’ because not everyone will agree , and of course a very small telescope is a great deal better than nothing at all . |
| 4 | Well , better than nothing at all ! |
| 5 | With his great hands , Jimmy returned the fast serve better than anyone in the history of the game . |
| 6 | Alcock , the man with the astronomical memory , probably knows the sky better than anyone in the world , possibly in history . |
| 7 | Forster once wrote to me that he knew Ivy 's characters were good as well as clever ; they are a great deal better than anyone in his books . |
| 8 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 9 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 10 | Gabriel would never understand nor Charley offer an explanation except to say , ‘ Better than sex , Gaby , better than anything except creation . |
| 11 | ‘ I love you better than anything in the world . |
| 12 | ‘ I love you better than anything in the world . |
| 13 | Very very much more effective , perhaps more so than we at first realize , although it is almost obvious when we reflect further . |
| 14 | Moreover , Hahnemann discovered that if a patient needed a particular remedy he or she tended to be very sensitive to it — much more so than someone for whom it was not indicated . |
| 15 | Go to the Police Station and ask for him , please , perhaps if someone like you shows that he knows he 's missing they will do something . |
| 16 | Only if none of these targets is available will I open fire on the big battalions with cannon . |
| 17 | but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it . |
| 18 | Right , so if you times that by a hundred you 've got no choice there . |
| 19 | So if none of the above applies to you now , it does not rule out risks you or your partner may have taken in the past . |
| 20 | trying to get it together and I would of got it together if I for being nice |
| 21 | But if you 're in a general branch such as I am , which is made up from people of all sorts of industries that have come together because none of us are large enough to have a branch within our own industry on our own , then which section do we go to ? |
| 22 | It is extremely unlikely that it would have done so because everyone at the ports authority had always envisaged a 24-hour operation . |
| 23 | He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether someone from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her . |
| 24 | The Orient had well-developed civilizations long before anything in Europe , and they too appreciated the qualities of the rose and its potential when cross-bred and hybridized — a process that was well in advance of the horticultural achievements of European civilizations by the time the latter 's explorations brought East and West together . |
| 25 | The floodgates opened for the third successive year as Fiji swept all before they with a breathtaking display of almost faultless sevens despite a downpour which reduced the Hong Kong Sevens venue to a quagmire . |
| 26 | the cherry and whites pack bulldozed their way to the line and sure enough after lots of huff and puff pushed over and touched down for try number three … |
| 27 | ‘ We have never given up hope , especially as everyone in the North West was fighting for us , ’ added Fran . |
| 28 | In both of the novels a heroine is involved for committing herself to do something important enough only as itself for example , Elizabeth Bennet walks three fatiguing miles to Netherfield to pay a visit to her ill sister ; Fanny Price opposes her cousins ' attempts to include her in amateur theatricals . |
| 29 | Especially when lots of visitors are milling around as they will be today . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And so when something like that happens , it makes you think about it all , about the dangers , about all the travelling you do as a musician . |