Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [verb] [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 | The slave will not work unless he is made , and therefore he does little ; he is no better , or little better , if he does his work well than if he does it ill , and therefore he rarely cares to do it very well . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | BECAUSE HE RARELY HAS TO MAKE ONE . |
| 5 | Montgomerie badly wants to finish his season with a win , having been runner-up four times , including the Dunhill Cup team tournament . |
| 6 | The IFC badly wants to double its capital with an injection of $1.3 billion from its government shareholders . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 9 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
| 10 | They tell little lies to get themselves out of trouble or make themselves look good , but real villains live in a fantasy world . |
| 11 | She works for an Ipswich insurance company but eventually wants to do something ‘ really worthwhile ’ to help others . |
| 12 | The winner 's the player who amasses enough points to create what the rulebook calls a trance-like state . |
| 13 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 14 | Try to make sure that the three of you go for walks together , taking it in turns to hold her lead , and when you set off on your own , avoid any big ‘ goodbye ’ fussing . |
| 15 | Selina donned an apron and put her hair up under a baseball cap and prickled with female make-do and knowhow , while Mandy and Debby took it in turns to amuse me downstairs . |
| 16 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 17 | I shall never forget the kindness of the many people who took it in turns to give me a lift , so that I did n't have to drive there and back . |
| 18 | For an hour or two each day , no more , Howard and Felicity take it in turns to teach them . |
| 19 | But Punition fretted all the way across , and her groom and a French veterinary surgeon took it in turns to comfort her . |
| 20 | Take it in turns to tell your stories to each other . |
| 21 | The film stars Keifer Sutherland and Julia Roberts and concerns a group of unlikely student doctors who take it in turns to have their heartbeat stopped in order to experience the afterlife , which for some reason the director has chosen to portray as a series of rather unimaginative music videos . |
| 22 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 23 | Finally , in location , size and amenities , the private builder ( including to a large degree the housing association ) necessarily builds to suit his customers and thus provides an index of demand . |
| 24 | A fanciful idea by some toy manufacturer which only goes to underline what was said previously about imagination and licence ! |
| 25 | And when the second person starts to speak , the first person goes through the same performance until there is a chance to interrupt and say : ‘ To get back to what I was saying … ’ or ‘ This only goes to prove my point … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That 's a very chauvinistic remark , and only goes to prove you must be associating with the wrong kind of woman . ’ |
| 27 | it 's a fabulous aeroplane , and this excercise only goes to prove it |
| 28 | Gambles of any kind are ‘ adventurist ’ to the Kremlin 's way of thinking , and the episode only goes to show what a maverick figure Khrushchev was . |
| 29 | Then he had some caviar and rang Italy and said , ‘ Sophia , this play I sent that Marlon 's going to do , he only wants to do it with you . |
| 30 | He said he only wants to put himself |