Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This merely adds to their already strong sense of the senseless . |
| 2 | But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’ |
| 3 | So I go , have a job to find it he just looks at me hard as nails . |
| 4 | After the jump , no doubt I might simply regret not having died , but only if it no longer matters to me how I die , only if I am past caring about the value of my acts . |
| 5 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 6 | It just appears to me as very empty , to wear clothes so that you can look attractive to other people and fit in , be accepted as part of the ‘ in crowd ’ . |
| 7 | It just appeals to me more . |
| 8 | The dog just leaps on him right , so he 's wrestling this dog , and he 's screaming and the dog going , growling at him and everything |
| 9 | oh , you know it 's amazing when you erm a reference always refers to something else , you got ta go and get that |
| 10 | Or , like he , if the little girl 's riding him , he always goes with her then as well , but even if the girl 's not on him , he takes him for a walk like a big dog so I mean , they 're lovely people , you could n't wish to have him with nicer people , erm , you know they are , they really are nice |
| 11 | Jim is married to Joy who has lived in Portsmouth all her life they have one daughter Julie who still lives with them in . |
| 12 | His Ravel , while less unfortunate than his recording of the Left-hand Concerto , hardly counts among his most distinguished offerings . |
| 13 | She cycles four miles every morning to ride out with us and she always arrives before anybody else . ’ |
| 14 | A crystallisation of hundreds of currents , from Gaelic lyricism , personal reminiscence , folk , pop , soul , Dylan , emotion , pain , salvation and the best string arrangements of all time , ‘ Astral Weeks ’ still sounds like nothing else ever recorded ; it is a unique album whose experiments and innovations have often been imitated ( those who have tried , like Mike Scott , how had a plough through ‘ Sweet Thing ’ , have made appalling fools of themselves ) but no-one — not even Van — has ever come close to its achievements . |
| 15 | It usually dawns on you slowly that all is not as it would appear on the surface . |
| 16 | No one usually asks for them back anyway so |
| 17 | Barry has since acquired a video recording of the race and still gloats over it even now . |
| 18 | If she ever speaks to us again |
| 19 | THE ROCKINGBIRDS have announced further dates on their seemingly never-ending UK tour , playing |
| 20 | Retirement usually brings with it not only the loss of the largest single activity in which people have engaged , but also a massive drop in income , standard of living and social status . |
| 21 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 22 | This also applies to everything else in your life . |
| 23 | It was built about 16 B.C. and the fact that this area had once been a Greek colony probably accounts for its exceptionally fine detail and proportions . |
| 24 | She has to do so , what 's more , at a time in her life when she probably feels at her least competent and worthwhile . |
| 25 | Subba Row , also the chairman of Surrey and a former England and Northamptonshire batsman , will remain a powerful voice but clearly wishes for someone else to take the responsibility for the hazards to come . |
| 26 | He probably knows about it anyway . |
| 27 | Although it retains some features in common with the ‘ orthodox account ’ it also departs from it significantly , especially in its emphasis on the importance of ‘ justice ’ within prisons . |
| 28 | My cousin probably shares with me only one-sixteenth of my genes , so that to sacrifice myself for her would be an activity of less fitness than sacrificing for my sister . |
| 29 | His office was just along the corridor from where Wanless now sits in his ornately furnished chief executive 's eyrie . |
| 30 | ‘ I wish Guido all the best in the trials , of course , ’ she added , ‘ but there 's only one thing that really matters to me now — and that 's going home as soon as I can . ’ |