Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 2 | Cassie knew suddenly that she desperately wanted to see her mother and father before they left England . |
| 3 | He let her go so suddenly that she almost fell . |
| 4 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 5 | To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers . |
| 6 | Dr Neil stepped back so swiftly that she almost fell ; he seized her by the shoulders and held her from him . |
| 7 | I did n't see her often , but whenever we met she would complain gently that they never went anywhere because Derek was always so busy or the babbas were teething or undergoing the whooping cough . |
| 8 | Recently , composer-conductors like Pierre Boulez or Oliver Knussen have cajoled orchestras into playing better than they ever knew how , by extending their technique , especially in contemporary repertoire . |
| 9 | In the other fields I 've discussed earlier — public speaking appearing on television , staging a special event , holding a conference , you can ( but you should n't ) kid yourself that they went better than they really did . |
| 10 | There 's no way that we can ever hope to get along better than we already do ! ’ |
| 11 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 12 | I 've written you poems better than I ever dreamed I could write … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Better than I ever imagined . ’ |
| 14 | It is notable that he does not see himself abandoning epistemology , but as continuing it , doing it better than it previously had been done . |
| 15 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 16 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 17 | It was the beginning of a love far deeper than he ever realised . |
| 18 | This indicates that the politics of local government do not just respond or react to the local environment , but crucially that they also help to mould this environment , and thus to a certain extent help to shape the local political agenda . |
| 19 | Ramazzini described the symptoms of poisoning from the lead which was regularly used by house painters , plumbers , glaziers and potters as well as by the extremely short-lived wretches actually employed in lead works : " First their hands become palsied , then they become paralytic , spenetic , lethargic , cachectic and toothless , so that one rarely sees a potter whose face is not cadaverous and the colour of lead . " |
| 20 | Indeed it may well be that a claim for contribution in respect of exemplary damages is not within section 1(1) on the facts of this case , so that one never gets to section 2 in relation to such a claim . |
| 21 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |
| 22 | Take the Singles ' Society , which seemed to exist solely so that its smartly dressed president could chat up pretty girls ; or the Alice Society : ‘ You did n't sign up for that did you , ’ said one newcomer to his friend as they left . |
| 23 | But I think that to allow those two sort of issues to get too inseparable , as it were , to so that we simply regard ourselves as being in a position to issue directives about behaviour , which do n't acknowledge that these are young people who have to learn to be autonomous , then we get ourselves onto a hiding for nothing . |
| 24 | They were grown in many combinations , so that we frequently get references to drage ( barley and oats ) and maslin ( wheat and rye ) . |
| 25 | He was not scholastically talented , and was said by some of his students to be a poor lecturer : ‘ Never was there a more irregular course of lectures , so that we scarcely knew what he was talking about ’ . |
| 26 | So that we then have got something to compare against something to calculate the fee on . |
| 27 | They sat down to a celebration champagne lunch with Dai Davies , the farm manager , and set about opening the heaps of telegrams and congratulatory letters ‘ so that we really felt on top of the world ’ . |
| 28 | So that we really do hope that when the news comes through today , it 's going to be positive and the international community , if I can put it this strongly , will have come to it 's senses and said this can not go on , we must have a more representative political presence at the U N. |
| 29 | And as this competition intensifies we should become more demanding so that we actually get the kind of services and products we want . |
| 30 | Therefore i if we , if he done that then that paragraph would seem to be slightly and the second point was really to ask if there was any further update on the progress in terms of negotiations in Surrey and East Sussex er in terms of this erm particular by-pass and I know that Mr in particular has been concerned with negotiations and Mrs also erm Mrs is not here therefore as Mr could advise me for us o of where we 're at really , so that we fully understand because obviously the the line of the by-pass is very important so far as any further development is is concerned . |