Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lacking statistics , ‘ we seldom if ever discussed growth , ’ but concentrated on what is now microeconomics . |
| 12 | Football hooliganism is largely engaged in by young males whose position in society leaves them culturally and materially deprived . |
| 13 | But it also left her economically and psychologically exhausted . |
| 14 | The experience left her physically and emotionally drained and a few months later she returned to hospital for a hysterectomy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He carried it home and patiently set about restoring it to full health , hand feeding it for days . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This is what he more than once declared to be his aim . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 25 | He more or less succeeded . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He dispassionately and properly referred to the feelings of locomotive drivers . |
| 28 | The Colonel 's enquiry was delivered as a statement , and he quickly and brazenly continued , ‘ Odd how man 's history resides in his middens . |
| 29 | He was of course on first-name terms with everyone from the Prime Minister downwards whom he probably and inappropriately called ‘ man ’ . |
| 30 | collective security During the four years that Nizan was writing in his capacity as foreign-affairs correspondent for L'Humanite ( 1935–7 ) and Ce Soir ( 1937–9 ) , he ceaselessly and fearlessly articulated a coherent antifascist diplomatic strategy based on the principle of collective security . |