Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because here energy levels are often depleted — either she does n't eat properly or she diets in order to keep slim . ’ |
| 2 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 3 | She laughed more naturally than she had in his presence before . |
| 4 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 5 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 6 | Chivers , providing dynamic leadership as Derry get ready for their most important match since last year 's Ulster decider , is adamant that the side can play much , much better than they did in the McKenna climax . |
| 7 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 8 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 9 | Later decades have seen other organizations use the term so that we speak in the twentieth century about the trade union ‘ movement ’ or the ‘ peace movement ’ ; we seldom think to describe the Conservative Party , the Confederation of British Industry or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as ‘ movements ’ . |
| 10 | To make sure that we 're able to put our point across clearly so that we speak in a clear way so that people do n't have any er doubts as to what you actually mean . |
| 11 | Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness . |
| 12 | For the shop itself , we need to know God 's grace under stress , especially so that we continue in fellowship without friction . |
| 13 | She stood shaking , setting the flaming tresses about her quivering so that they rippled in the shafts of light broken by the barrier of trees . |
| 14 | They pulled sharply at the strings , then released the kites so that they flew in a succession of angular jerks , higher and higher into the pink evening sky . |
| 15 | The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands . |
| 16 | To set up such a tank containing only the larger species so that they live in a harmonious group requires careful thought . |
| 17 | They show the possibility of identifying themes vital to national development like ‘ saving our soil ’ , ‘ clean water ’ or ‘ feeding ourselves ’ ; of designing carefully selected units of material to cover perhaps two weeks ' learning with teachers trained to handle them ; of arranging the school programmes of studies so that they allow in every term , a period , two weeks or so , available for such common projects . |
| 18 | The physiotherapist may hold the other end of the stick and direct the patient 's movements , guiding the patient 's arm and shoulder girdle so that they move in the correct sequence . |
| 19 | I 'm bound to say that they failed to learn from their own history after nineteen-eighteen , so that they did in effect repeat erm their history a second time with disastrous consequences for everybody . |
| 20 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 21 | In order to communicate with military headquarters in Moscow Russian engineers had simply diverted some of the multicore trunk circuits from the main Vienna exchange so that they terminated in the Imperial Hotel . |
| 22 | And then we had to cut those out , by hands hand , that er of course entailed quite a lot of work er for er for the mortices to be cleaned out , and the tenons to be cut by hand , so that they fit in the proper places . |
| 23 | He rolled his hand over so that hers rested in his palm . |
| 24 | She fielded two blows , then felt her left arm cut as Morthen struck swiftly , savagely ; then her left leg , so that she collapsed in a heap , struck three times on the left side of her body , bleeding , left to die . |
| 25 | Penry reached out a long arm and drew her in front of him so that she stood in the shelter of his arms as he held the wheel . |
| 26 | Clearly Eliot was fascinated by the relationships posited between art and ritual , so that he stressed in 1923 that ‘ all art emulates the condition of ritual . |
| 27 | With Thomas Sackville , Baron Buckhurst [ q.v. ] , as a cousin and constant support , perhaps even financially , Alford was ostensibly well placed for advancement , and he was able to secure election to borough seats in Lancashire , Cornwall , Berkshire , and Sussex so that he sat in nine of the thirteen parliamentary sessions of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 28 | Elected vice-provost in 1929 , he was a unanimous choice as provost in 1933 ; and such was the hold he established over the college that the fellows prolonged his tenure as provost for two years so that he retired in 1954 . |
| 29 | The hairs lifted slightly on the nape of his neck and a rush of tingling spread on his scalp , then flooded his face so that he blushed in the darkness . |
| 30 | And you eat in what is called messes so that you eat in a mess of four and the server comes in and puts a plate of it might be venison and a plate of which is a kind of erm corn and er in front of you . |