Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Using the corner to steady myself , I slowly and silently turned about and moved to my right , into the blackness of the side alley . |
2 | I more or less demanded that Nigel be referred to her . |
3 | You are obviously determined to believe that I deliberately and maliciously set out to destroy you , knowing as I did how much you had already been hurt . ’ |
4 | ‘ But the 1861 to 1865 papers are kept under lock and key , ’ warned the owner , inferring that those that I freely but reverently leafed through might have to have similar protection one day . |
5 | I 'd come down and see you all if ever invited . |
6 | When , ill with typhoid in October 1835 , Victoria was pressed hard by Conroy to nominate him as her personal secretary on her accession , she persistently and successfully resisted , with Lehzen 's support . |
7 | in all honesty ans answer what he said , you more or less made a statement and said yes I am er but I , I know all about the products and I 'll give you best advice . |
8 | You look for ways to ensure that either it can be regularly dealt with by someone else or at least that it should reach you partly or virtually completed . |
9 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
10 | If we had n't , we 'd have tossed you back and perhaps saved some other unfortunate ! ’ |
11 | In each charge there was an alternative alleging that she cruelly and unnaturally treated the two women in her care , to which she also pleaded not guilty . |
12 | Dorothy had persecuted the wood-lice , in Edward 's view ; she stamped on them , swept them up and even poured boiling water upon whole colonies of them . |
13 | Lacking statistics , ‘ we seldom if ever discussed growth , ’ but concentrated on what is now microeconomics . |
14 | Football hooliganism is largely engaged in by young males whose position in society leaves them culturally and materially deprived . |
15 | But it also left her economically and psychologically exhausted . |
16 | The experience left her physically and emotionally drained and a few months later she returned to hospital for a hysterectomy . |
17 | Shiona longed to yell , Stop ! , and pour out the truth and see the rage and the pain and the hatred of her finally and forever erased from his face . |
18 | A crash during practice shook him up and badly damaged his car . |
19 | What the men did next is also not disclosed but clearly something impressed the ladies again because before the year was out they spontaneously and bountifully agreed to ‘ always let the men through directly they are in any way pressed ’ , a decision now overtaken by the bye-laws . |
20 | Meehan should have been released immediately , but instead the authorities offered him parole , that is release on licence , which he properly and courageously rejected , knowing it could not be long before he was released unconditionally . |
21 | He took his time ; first cutting the cigar , then heating its tip with a succession of matches that he carelessly and provocatively dropped on to Wavebreaker 's scrubbed deck . |
22 | It is saying , and I think everyone agrees , do n't abolish this until you 've thought it through and either provided an alternative or done it again in a different way . ’ |
23 | He carried it home and patiently set about restoring it to full health , hand feeding it for days . |
24 | A competent scholar who had an inbred regard for the pastoral needs of country congregations , he was exactly suited to his place , upon which he never needed to insist , and its responsibilities , which he more than adequately fulfilled . |
25 | This is what he more than once declared to be his aim . |
26 | And though he more than once declared suicide a selfish act , he must also have foreseen that there are certain states of mind in which sensitive consideration of others becomes impossible . |
27 | In any case , I believe Eliot admired the thrillers of the prolific E. Phillips Oppenheim , who was published in the yellow-backed series to which he more than once referred as a possible source of inspiration . |
28 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
29 | He more or less succeeded . |
30 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |