Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordering replenishment and display may be looked after by the publisher and this can lift a lot of the administrative burden of stock control from the shop , although they are normally offered only where sales justify it . |
| 2 | Andrew Neil is very litigious for an editor ( ‘ Randy Andy Gets a Grandy ’ , you may remember , as The Sun put it in January ) , so although Pamella told me lots of … interesting things about him , I 'd better tread carefully . |
| 3 | She despised herself for sounding so defensive , but perhaps if Luke understood he might leave her in peace . |
| 4 | Despairing in his heart that anything further could be done to improve the conditions of seafarers , Plimsoll nevertheless continued to work without respite to promote the cause in which he so passionately believed , and did so until illness forced him out of the public scene . |
| 5 | It is a key enabler for this , but only if people use it as a way of changing the way business is done rather than merchandising existing systems and organisations . |
| 6 | Yeah well only cos Matthew told him they were . |
| 7 | ‘ So if Hurley asks you again if you can do something for him , ’ he said , ‘ tell him , okay . |
| 8 | So if people want it to be there it should be there , no question . |
| 9 | So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ ' |
| 10 | Well no cos matey , I do n't think so cos matey said he is a small . |
| 11 | Nightingale rejected Mill 's criticism that her Notes on Nursing restricted women 's opportunities in the medical world by saying that feminism urged ‘ women to do all men do including the medical and other professions , merely because men do it , and without regard to whether this is the best women can do ’ . |
| 12 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 13 | That Reagan managed to escape public disgrace was probably only because Americans found it very hard so soon after Nixon to see another president fall from grace , since the presidency is the last moral totem pole the nation possesses . |
| 14 | Britain had governed Hong Kong for at least the past 25 years only because China allowed it . |
| 15 | The engine-room had customarily only one rating , a leading stoker , on watch , and this only because custom dictated it , not because necessity demanded it . |
| 16 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 17 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 18 | It 's just that lifts only break down because people use them , rubbish chutes only get blocked with rubbish and debris only accumulates because public spaces are n't cleaned often enough . |
| 19 | Gazza reacted angrily as he explained : ‘ I 've just been told that English journalists are saying that I threw my bib down because Zoff said I was out of the side . |
| 20 | The team says this is not so because administrators dislike them , or that they are hardly aware of them . |
| 21 | Indeed , he has never really fitted in since Kendall brought him down from Scotland more than a year ago . |
| 22 | She rocked him gently while Bridhe told her the story , and she felt a confusion buzzing in her head . |
| 23 | Swinging back to the window , Beth was horrified to see the girl pressed against the apple tree with her arms wrapped protectively round the little boy , the two of them bent double , cringing together while Matthew flayed them viciously with the branch . |
| 24 | See so after men finished they would , there 'd be a steady turnround all the time . |
| 25 | 10am : Talks break down after cats claim they ca n't understand a word I say . |
| 26 | It was cool and dark , the stone floor scattered with rugs , and it was not long before Jenna decided it was too cool and too dark . |
| 27 | It was not long before Tony joined me in an attempt to free himself of the sizzling mushrooms . |
| 28 | After Arthur read that paralysing codswallop , the piece of business became impossible and it was only after Fred rang him up and ribbed him about it that he could manage to get the thing off his head again . |
| 29 | Only after leaving did I glimpse myself in the mirror . |
| 30 | Long after Sarella felt they should have been slowing to cross the drawbridge into the courtyard of Castell Rocamar , they went on , the engine purring gently as they continued into the heart of the mountains . |