Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be found on the shaft of the penis and on the glans , but their predilection for a damp and warm environment makes them most often seen under the foreskin . |
| 2 | I ca n't put them down there to begin with , I think they all draw up |
| 3 | She sent a few dogs to Ireland and , after the war , attempts to track them down only resulted in letters being sent back marked ‘ gone away ’ . |
| 4 | No , I never saw lads er , er , the game that seemed most popular with us , I do n't know whether you have , it 's nothing only really hopping across the road . |
| 5 | It is nothing so ever to do with that Australian or Cockney mechanic . ’ |
| 6 | It must be its isolation which has kept them so unreasonably concealed from common knowledge . |
| 7 | He was still sick and light-headed with the fever that had kept them so long immobilised at Cegidfa , and made the ride home such long-drawn discomfort to him ; but the sorry account he had to make of his stewardship weighed more heavily on his spirit than his wounds did on his body . |
| 8 | Whether pink or stripy , or black and hairy , they are almost all first generation wild fruits from endangered habitats in the Third World , though some of them so now languish in the hot-houses of New Zealand or the Channel Islands . |
| 9 | Can you give me any indication of the gravity of the investigation which , in your view , might justify me in deliberately withholding from the board information of direct importance to the bank 's shareholders ? " |
| 10 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |
| 11 | He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences . |
| 12 | Alright he , he 's probably down there with his wife and my friend and invited me down there to stay in her house but I do n't think it 's September actually , so I do n't , some . |
| 13 | Now , let me say there 's one component of what Brian and Gerry have been saying , which I most passionately agree with as it happens — get that bit off my chest first — and that is that until we have a clear understanding of the mechanisms and processes of development , the processes whereby an egg turns into an adult , our theory of evolution will , indeed , be very imperfect , and we do not have such a theory , erm it 's exceedingly important that we should work on such a theory , and such a theory it is n't sufficient simply to say ‘ Oh well , there 's a genetic programme for development ’ and imagine that in other ways actually said something , because you actually have n't . |
| 14 | After the ultimate collapse of the last-minute French initiative [ see below ] , he made a statement at the request of the Security Council on Jan. 15 , saying : " As … the world stands poised between peace and war , I most sincerely appeal to President Saddam Hussein to turn the course of events away from catastrophe and toward a new era of justice and harmony … |
| 15 | I decided not to go in there on the grounds that Tommy would not , and Tommy off duty in Tommy 's off-duty clothes was what I most definitely wanted to be at that moment . |
| 16 | I most certainly agree with that view , which is why I declined to sign the social chapter . |
| 17 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 18 | I rather foolishly ran round the Staffordshire moors on Saturday with the perhaps to be disbanded 5th Battalion Light Infantry from Shrewsbury and caught a heavy cold . |
| 19 | Not just because it would ruin the trust that my relationship is built on and that I so much believe in , but because being unfaithful would require me to be the kind of woman I choose not to be . |
| 20 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 21 | One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) . |
| 22 | My talk , if you so wish to interpret it , is a reaction to the somewhat sterile presentation of the language which I so often see in textbooks and curriculum documents . |
| 23 | I so often think of the phrase ‘ becoming as little children . ’ |
| 24 | He 's certainly saying I find a pattern here because he 's using it , as his pattern to understand and I only just said at the beginning what the , makes the Jews Jewish , what gave them their national character and their , their ethnic identity . |
| 25 | I only just stopped in time . |
| 26 | Furthermore , since I only recently arrived in France from England I am not exactly out of touch with the news from ‘ home ’ . |
| 27 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 28 | ‘ I only ever go to church when I have to go to funerals , ’ said Amiss gloomily . |
| 29 | And I only ever went to the first reunion after graduation . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |