Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly lower and touch your chest with the bar . |
| 2 | Close grip bench press — slowly lower and touch your chest with the bar , then press upwards until the arms are locked straight out |
| 3 | She could go her own way , or she must hand over that rebellious will , and seek God 's forgiveness for the years when she had been downright disobedient and pushed Him out of her life . |
| 4 | ‘ In accordance with IMC regulations , and at the behest of Trau Bannen , Coordinator Designate of Project Eden , take Krau O'Rourke away to somewhere private and have her made redundant . |
| 5 | Learn when your boss is most receptive and approach her then . |
| 6 | What the Henry Pratt books ( there is a second in print , Pratt Of The Argus , and a third imminent ) have in common with the rest of Nobbs ' work is his love of running gags and bizarre symmetry , an interest which made Perrin so relentlessly funny and reached its peak in the near-geometric farces of the two Bit Of A Do series . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's plenty of evidence to show that getting a little puffed and increasing your heart rate is good for you . |
| 8 | His weekly half-hour CBC programme was one of the most popular and kept his Victor recordings high in the rating charts . |
| 9 | ‘ Norlite is terribly sorry and knows it has to do things to the letter in future . ’ |
| 10 | Harwell says it 's own readings are much lower and insist there 's no danger to the public . |
| 11 | For seventeen , he was big and heavily built , but the man who carried him was so tall and held his weight so easily that there was no doubt who he was . |
| 12 | I simulate ‘ what-ifs ’ galore From lightning strikes to Third World War ; No problems with communication — With Stratos I can reach the Nation [ Except for those so low and mean They have n't got a PC screen … |
| 13 | Tackling revision questions with fellow students reminds you that you 're not alone ; it allows you to comment constructively on one another 's outline answers ; it saves time ; it is mutually supportive and helps you maintain good morale . |
| 14 | It is little wonder that fundamentalist sects have a field day welcoming in disillusioned people who have been put off Christianity by forms of Anglicanism which offer so little and demand nothing . |
| 15 | But , according to Macchio 's lawyer , Norman Oberstein , ‘ It 's so absurd and strains one 's imagination . |
| 16 | I was so elated and relieved I could have kissed them , but immediately felt ashamed that I 'd let them see my fear . |
| 17 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 18 | Your skin is like creamy blossom and your eyes are so clear and grey they can see into the soul . |
| 19 | But this kind of stimulus neighbourhood he engineers point of view is actually extremely interesting and give you a hell of a lot of job satisfaction because you are getting the youngsters really involved in what it 's all about . |
| 20 | The women and children take charge of the cattle 's night-time arrangements , gently guiding and scolding them . |
| 21 | OLIVER rolled his eyes back , lit a cigarette and said that the very phrase common sense was a contradiction in terms , and if Man — at which point he pretended to be extremely embarrassed and correct himself to Man-or-Woman — if Man-or-Woman had relied upon common sense over the previous millennia we 'd all still be living in mud huts and eating frightful food and listening to Del Shannon records . |
| 22 | She had a lot of hair , but it was so tangled and matted it was impossible to determine the colour . |
| 23 | This is extremely patronising and helps no-one least of all the playwright . |
| 24 | As in the ease of classical criminology , positivist criminology embodied an assumption that there is some objective category of ‘ crime ’ that is obviously wrong and needs something doing about it . |
| 25 | The initial vulnerability of the new born is expressed in Denis Creffield 's Anxious Baby ( 1983 ) and here the parallels with those popular images of childhood which constantly interpenetrate and interrupt our day-to-day routine are obvious . |
| 26 | I used to look at them in awe , they were so generous and open There will be more American memorabilia in the summer when the new entrance ios officially opened … and the date for that , July 4 , American Independence Day . |
| 27 | In addition , having listened repeatedly to the cassette he felt much happier in himself , realizing that the stammer which so embarrassed and distressed him was not going to prove incurable . |
| 28 | Now I feel so embarrassed and wish I did n't have breasts at all , or I try to hide them with baggy T-shirts . |
| 29 | But one can not help thinking that a far greater contribution to the preservation of the World 's rain forests would be made if companies could be persuaded to make their annual brochures less glossy and to print them on re-cycled paper . |
| 30 | In the letter , Mr Lilley says : ‘ I propose a three-pronged course of action which would focus the benefit more closely on the long-term sick , make it less generous and make it taxable . ’ |