Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 2 | When France declared war on England , on 17 June 1778 , Jones remained unemployed and he also managed to fall out with his own crew who , in a petition , called ‘ his temper and treatment [ of them ] insufferable ’ . |
| 3 | They found the cutting and scrambled down the slopes of the cutting enjoying the freedom , the old hut looked interesting and they soon explored the area , that had reverted back to nature . |
| 4 | I like the bones best because they 're interesting and I never thought people were buried up here . |
| 5 | ‘ But she 's wrong and I just know I 'm right , ’ he vowed . |
| 6 | I wish I was wrong and I still had my pension . |
| 7 | Because he was wrong and he just made me feel really crap . |
| 8 | But passions were running high and I also think the conference did want to give our present Prime Minister a feeling of support . ’ |
| 9 | They 're quite expensive at the outset because what we 've got to do is pay the lecturers to put a lot of work in on those lectures — it 's not a simple thing writing this lecture for a thirteen year old and we also pay the school teachers for coming along and helping the lecturers . |
| 10 | ‘ When you came to us , love , you were eight years old and you never smiled , you never laughed , you hardly said anything . |
| 11 | You 're fifteen years old and you still wan na watch the Jungle Book . |
| 12 | My daughter 's now 10 months old and I still have n't started my periods again . |
| 13 | It is only 12 months old and I now wish to purchase a modulator to convert it to a colour monitor for use with a domestic TV set . |
| 14 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 15 | Bob Martin , from the Darlington Milk Buyers , said customers had been very generous and they still had more to collect . |
| 16 | Then I come cantering through Sherwood To set Maid Marion free And I really believe I 'm Robin Hood And the Sheriff 's my enemy . |
| 17 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 18 | O'Connell says the company was proud to say that it had won Posix-compliance and it now hopes to gain X/Open 's XPG branding . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's the classic green and reds with a simple check that prove the most popular and we often recolour tartans in various forms . |
| 20 | It was strained through sieves into stone water jars , and if the truth were told , it was probably not very alcoholic and it certainly had a short life . |
| 21 | like , she 's coloured right , but she 's a bit portly and she just smells to be quite honest ! |
| 22 | Everyone will be embarrassed and it rarely helps . |
| 23 | And that it 's very disorganised and you never know where you are regarding rooms . |
| 24 | As I mentioned before , vitamins are chemically very unstable and they certainly do not take well to this sort of treatment . |
| 25 | ‘ The mould got broken and we never replaced it . |
| 26 | The squash had an undertaste that I could n't identify but it was n't unpleasant and I happily drank it . |
| 27 | The fact is that all developed societies undergo processes in which professions and occupations proliferate and become more specialised and we then have to evolve means of ‘ getting it all together again' , in this case , ensuring that the patient or client does not suffer as a result of our separate functions and roles . |
| 28 | BRAVO to the French both for their ban on smoking in public and their softly-softly approach to imposing it . |
| 29 | During my first stay in China in 1984 , it was very rare indeed to see young people holding hands in public and I clearly remember the expressions of shock when a student dared to ask , in a packed lecture hall , if students in Britain were allowed to ‘ talk love ’ . |
| 30 | Neither the probate line of cases nor the donor line of cases is appropriate to apply to the present situation which is entirely different and I respectfully agree with the observations of Staughton L.J . |