Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercifully for us they had gold leaf in plenty ’ . |
| 2 | In fact Gilbert 's Act of 1782 , remembered mostly as one which permitted parishes to unite for Poor Law purposes without undergoing the expensive process of incorporating through a private act of parliament , was equally significant in its effective sanctioning of the subsidising of wages from the poor rates for the able-bodied who were to be removed from workhouses and found work . |
| 3 | Fortunetellers make educated guesses too — mostly about what they think their ‘ subject ’ would like to hear . |
| 4 | Goody , then , sees the activities of Pythagoras and his followers as quite different from the flowering of logic , scientific clarity , lack of ambiguity , scepticism etc. for which he praises classical Greece . |
| 5 | I think we need to say , okay , in the future , what are we , the town , gon na do , to make this building right for what we want for the town . |
| 6 | The Cockcroft Committee pointed out that , for pupils with very low scores in GCE and CSE examinations , much could be said about what they do n't know , but little about what they do know . |
| 7 | Although a considerable amount of generalized research on use has been carried out , many librarians still know relatively little about what their users want . |
| 8 | But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook . |
| 9 | If you think a little about it you will be able to convince yourself that Rk is nothing other than the old familiar resistance ( proportional to length ; inversely proportional to cross-section ) derived in a different manner . |
| 10 | At last finding someone to move so their love did n't have to be separated they started to do things which the middle-aged woman in the tweed suit would not have approved of , luckily for her she had dismounted earlier . |
| 11 | Luckily for him they had decided to be married in Cork before going out to Palestine . |
| 12 | It was a 15- to 20-footer , and luckily for me it went in . |
| 13 | We 've already had a couple of plonkers sending us demonstration games from the Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit , but luckily for them we spotted the offending articles ( not difficult ) . |
| 14 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 15 | Luckily for us someone really wanted them to be here . |
| 16 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 17 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
| 18 | The perfect infinitive thus presents an event — a result phase — not as something which is itself directly perceived but rather as something which is inferred from a comparison of what is directly observed — the present state of the doctor — with what was observed at some earlier moment . |
| 19 | Confusingly for him he saw where his logic was taking him . |
| 20 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |
| 21 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 22 | ‘ There is no dance house in London which is big enough for what we want to do , ’ she said , looking admiringly at the spacious stage area being laid out to the rear of the former Empire Theatre . |
| 23 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 24 | The first lecture was due to start in half an hour — time enough for what she had to do . |
| 25 | BELVILLE ] The girl 's well enough for what she is . |
| 26 | I ca n't thank him enough for what he is doing , ’ says Kim , of Romford , Essex . |
| 27 | He well deserved the sentence he got , but to many of us five life sentences do not seem quite enough for what he did to our youngsters . |
| 28 | The judge told Levy no punishment was severe enough for what he did . |
| 29 | " Men are daft enough for anything you should know that . |
| 30 | That decision was passed unanimously and if it is good enough for us it should be good enough for the Tories . |