Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This example of practical remembrance is paralleled in our other welfare facilities — at Sussexdown and Richard Peack House and the Eagle Lodges — and perhaps most importantly as we reach out through our Honorary Welfare Officers and out members to find and to help individuals in need . |
| 2 | But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale . |
| 3 | It is a phenomenon one encounters continually in Eastern Europe , but most blatantly when one has to have any dealings with state-run organisations . |
| 4 | He was staring into the fire rather grimly and she had to take her courage firmly in hand . |
| 5 | Whatever one 's opinion , he has missed remarkably little considering he has had to cope with such an endless barrage of fast bowling . |
| 6 | His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | No sooner had I selected wheels down than I noticed that the port wheel had not come right down because I did not get a green light on that side of the undercarriage indicator . |
| 8 | So it 's seven twelfths altogether so if we add a third to a quarter |
| 9 | Rather less because we 've just taken some money out of the budget . |
| 10 | And making a load of hay especially , you had to work it , roll every pitchfork you had , roll it and set it properly so that you knew as you now then you must have numbers on them so you know how to unravel that lot . |
| 11 | It was rather indifferently that he described to her his walk , his find , his leading of the police to the spot . |
| 12 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 13 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 14 | Although this is a legal thing to do in Texas , an uproar over the shameless display of influence-peddling prompted most of the recipients to return the money ( mostly only after they had cashed the cheques ) . |
| 15 | The only way around these attempted take-offs was to walk very slowly so that we did n't build up too much ground speed , as airline pilots would say , and stop if Dawn 's wings did open . |
| 16 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 17 | Ron was virtually dead physiologically before he achieved a consistent recognition of the severity of his state . |
| 18 | By canne , which could mean ‘ cane ’ in the English senses of a hollow reed or a light walking-stick , Antoine implies something rather long unless he uses the word wholly jokingly . |
| 19 | He got up and came to squat next to her , flipping through the pages rather impatiently until he stopped suddenly . |
| 20 | It was now that a more marked difference from the Parisians showed itself in their work , most obviously when they laid hands on Sermisy or Janequin for their own purposes . |
| 21 | Keep a good lookout and stay back from the line a little so that you do n't get into problems with people on starboard tack , then look for a gap to tack into . |
| 22 | Half an hour later , she felt a little better although she had n't decided what to do . |
| 23 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 24 | ‘ I know Devlin a little better than he imagines and I was not at all fooled about this easy assignment of yours . ’ |
| 25 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 26 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
| 27 | On the negatives there was the er resumption of a S S A P twenty four charge for U K pensions , a little less than we expected , we had a strong revaluation in mid-year , the incremental redundancy costs that Frank has already touched upon and er the er dis er the discontinued profits not in ninety two . |
| 28 | By the next Prime Minister 's Questions on Thursday she knew the policy rather better than we did . |
| 29 | Devise your method and then tell your story , which inevitably will make the mystery seem rather better than it has to be , because all locked rooms are variants of a small number of simple devices , most of which are ways of making such rooms unlocked all along . |
| 30 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |