Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , we tend to see the learning of a foreign language as mastering a skill , thereby perhaps doing ourselves a disservice . |
| 2 | My chances of getting my hands on it long enough to give it the once-over were minimal , and I did n't fancy trying to steal it off Harley . |
| 3 | Wearing an apron , with her sleeves rolled up and her hair tucked under a duster , Rosie stopped polishing the brasswork on the beer-pumps long enough to throw her a cheerful smile . |
| 4 | She stayed long enough to tell me the story and never once remarked on the Ealing comedy taking place outside the window . |
| 5 | Assertiveness training may help but again can not change the problem , only perhaps make it a little easier to deal with . |
| 6 | Steve Smith , the 19-year-old Liverpool high jumper , smashed his British and Commonwealth indoor record with 2.37m , but it was only enough to earn him the bronze . |
| 7 | Better not tell her the truth . |
| 8 | One kid in my neighbourhood , a Blood , came up to me after seeing this movie and he said , ‘ I 'm gon na go home and tell my mother she better not call me a motherfucker anymore . ’ |
| 9 | So just to make it a little bit more exciting And then this is this is it finished off then . |
| 10 | REPLYING to the letter from Brian Hunter ( HAS March 30 ) in relation to food for diabetics in hospital , he has obviously not understood what the trouble was . |
| 11 | Unfortunately he 's reactionary enough not to accord me the same freedom ! ’ |
| 12 | I went across the course to the stands side to see the horses in the paddock , and then I went up to the very comfy Tribune des Dames , for which the French Racing Authorities so generously send me a badge each year . |
| 13 | I do iron me pants but I only just show them the iron |
| 14 | Only I want Only just get me a tin of hair lacquer , normal hold for tinted that 's all I want . |
| 15 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 16 | I 've only ever seen you a couple of times , with your dad at matches . ’ |
| 17 | And while she always spent a great deal of time and money on their Christmas presents , they only ever sent her a packet of scented drawer liners or a box of soap . |
| 18 | A moral is drawn advising husbands : ( Do just as Hain did with his wife , who would only ever show him the slightest respect , until he had beaten her to the core . ) |
| 19 | I remember feeling a good deal embarrassed , which he imperturbably pretended not to notice , thereby perhaps further teaching me a lesson in Eliot-etiquette , though he was the last person deliberately to make anyone feel uneasy . |
| 20 | So now tell me the truth . ’ |
| 21 | When readers have written in , worried about whether to tell about a secret lover , you 've so often given them the excellent advice : ‘ Keep mum ’ . |
| 22 | Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime ! |
| 23 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 24 | Minch had long ago taught him the rule among eagles that unless an eagle is seeking to take over territory then he should leave a pair to rear their young in peace . |
| 25 | Two indeed were peers , one the Lord Belasyse with whom Willys again quarrelled fiercely , perhaps even sending him a second challenge . |
| 26 | Any territories that rallied to Free France would enhance the legitimacy of his movement , provide strategic bases for his forces , and perhaps even give him the opportunity to transfer his headquarters to a base on French soil . |
| 27 | So never mind what the executive amends , recommend , stick your hand up for three eight eight and three eight nine and give a bit of power back to the people . |
| 28 | He was less talkative now and settled down to work quietly , only occasionally asking her a question about what he was doing . |
| 29 | One Harvard dealer an American boy , was fortunate enough to get close to this quickly By putting a wealthy client into some circumspect account trades , and so actually making him a lot of money , the dealer earned the client 's gratitude . |
| 30 | I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society . |