Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every week she was expected to clean the house right through and make the dinners , while the grandmother had her outing to Edinburgh : ‘ she had jist t'come in and sit doon like a lady . ’ |
| 2 | I stopped after a short while and said ‘ this is nonsense — I ca n't learn any more of this sort of thing by two o'clock — I must just do a prose right through and see how I get on ’ . |
| 3 | Iris closed her eyes and began speaking slowly as if reciting a lesson . |
| 4 | Though , ’ he added slowly as if thinking something out , ‘ I did n't leave there for , oh , about twenty , perhaps thirty minutes , I should n't wonder . |
| 5 | Sarah shook her head slowly as if to clear it . |
| 6 | One grey-haired captain , a rough old chap , sat and sat not saying a word , mute as a mackerel , then suddenly got up in the middle of the room ad , you know , said aloud as if speaking to himself , ‘ If there 's no God then what sort of a Captain am I after that ? ’ , ad seized his cap and threw up his arms and went out . |
| 7 | It is no more than the action of clashing their teeth together as if sinking them into the neck of the prey , in the specialized killing bite of the cat , but it has become a sound signal that many observers have commented on . |
| 8 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 9 | The merchant rubbed his hands together as if trying to wash them . |
| 10 | His hands were clasped together as if to comfort one another . |
| 11 | In one period , all were placed together as if spelled out in full as ‘ MAC ’ . |
| 12 | In one period , all were placed together as if spelled out in full as ‘ MAC ’ . |
| 13 | She sucked in a deep breath then looked up , squeezing her eyelids tightly together as if to clear the fuzziness which clouded her vision . |
| 14 | Even so , he lit the lamp on his desk , put a fresh cigarette in his holder and firmly affixed his monocle — all as if to reassure himself , as if to confirm both his identity and his authority : Colonel Eric R. S. Windsor , DSO , Colonel-in Chief of His Majesty 's 16th Infantry Division , currently stationed in Cambridge Barracks , Cork . |
| 15 | They said they were setting off at nine o'clock as if to go |
| 16 | At that moment , emerging from the saloon below as if propelled from a circus cannon , there appeared a distinctly grotesque figure . |
| 17 | Finally , the points on his leggings had been tied up wrongly as if done by someone else in a hurry . ’ |
| 18 | The band had a policy of not turning down any gig offer , regardless of whether playing it would be profitable . |
| 19 | Cost is calculated as follows : Raw materials — cost of purchase on first in , first out basis Work in progress — cost of raw materials and labour together with and finished goods attributable overheads . |
| 20 | The arguments within the Thatcher administration went on apace over whether to swing the axe fiercely into public spending in the winter of 1980–1 , with ministers like Prior , Pym , Walker , and Carrington arguing the case for maintaining public expenditure and investment , monetarists outside the government like Alan Budd urging far more stringent monetary restraint , and Sir Geoffrey Howe at the Treasury buffeted about in between . |
| 21 | The tragedy is that the Government have stood idly by and done little to prevent youth crime in general and this aspect of youth crime in particular . |
| 22 | Why then have the Cambrian Forces been invited to inveigle such hollowed ground ; to sit idly by and scoff while such is imposed by few on the many . |
| 23 | Jane Clark , 50 , said : ‘ I can no longer stand idly by and let him take the blame . ’ |
| 24 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 25 | Not only have the Government disregarded the electricity supply industry 's disdain for that achievement , but they have sat idly by and watched collieries close which , in the past five years , have taken up a large part of that sum of money about which the Minister boasted just a moment ago . |
| 26 | We do not want to stand idly by and do nothing . |
| 27 | Surely the world can not stand idly by and watch this country of eight million people go through the agony of war yet again ? |
| 28 | We can not sit idly by and watch Yugoslavia tear itself to pieces , watch people being killed in vast numbers , and watch the wonderful archaeological and architectural gems being destroyed , while saying that there is nothing that we can do . |
| 29 | B : how long has he been away for or has he just been away ? |
| 30 | Here , a vast decaying tree whose roots were eaten away from the inside had begun to lean backwards as if longing to sit down , and a massive , arthritic branch had elbowed out several stones from the top of the wall against which it now gratefully rested . |