Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had always thought the MP for Arden read little save for the Motor Traders ' Gazette . |
| 2 | The facility with which not only politicians but people who should know better argue for education in the name of economic growth is frightening . |
| 3 | If the administration now seeks a coherent shopping-list of objectives , it has better find a way of accounting for these hidden benefits . |
| 4 | If it was n't your family you would need to come up come up with the dosh . |
| 5 | People-do n't interfere . |
| 6 | Will WONDERS never cease ? |
| 7 | I think Malcolm also found her attractive , but it was the love that dares not speak its name . |
| 8 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 9 | That doth nightly rob the dayrie |
| 10 | In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed . |
| 11 | Either what woman having ten pieces of silver , if she lose one piece , doth not light a candle , and sweep the house , and seek diligently till she find it ? |
| 12 | God , he said , ‘ doth not bind us to dive into men 's consciences , . |
| 13 | That doth not smack of observation ; |
| 14 | … As to the matter of there being no appeal from an arbitrary sentence ; it is true , the case is the harder , because the party is concluded by one judgment , but it doth not lessen the validity of the sentence , nor doth it in any way prove that you shall find out some way to examine this matter at law in a judicial proceeding . |
| 15 | The differences come in what else it will do besides run DOS . |
| 16 | This targets them towards the most important part of the prey , where they can do most damage with their first contact . |
| 17 | They tub the velvet off their antlers on to the trees and take off the bark but , , they do n't do enough damage to matter . |
| 18 | ’ Lucienne Palmer : ‘ I was so greedy for Oxford Life that I simply did not do enough work , I know . |
| 19 | He was n't sure that a god of any kind would make asides to the audience , let along speak in Middle English and quote Wordsworth . |
| 20 | The college can not justify the use of its facilities , let along expand its activities , as it has neither the resources or required support facilities . |
| 21 | It is difficult now for many people to grasp , let along appreciate , the depth and strength of the feelings of loss , defeat , and outrage which mining communities felt at the time . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'd better 'ave a look in it ourselves , ’ said Dolly , ‘ in case he 's taken anything . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd better reimburse you for the sweets ’ Vernon insisted , in a tight unfriendly voice . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd better switch sides ; you will probably be too busy trying to keep your bow tie dry ! ’ |
| 25 | I do n't know where , I thought I left my case here , I do n't know what I 've done with my case that 's all , it 's probably downstairs oh oh I do n't know , mm still not able to find it I think I 'd better put these plants out mm that 's right , oh , mm that 's not there right , I 'd better switch this , the tape off cos there 's not much , be much conversation now for a while |
| 26 | I think we 'd better switch off at this stage . |
| 27 | I think you 'd better switch it off anyway had n't you ? |
| 28 | ‘ You 'd better burn this . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd better burn that , ’ he indicated the compost , ‘ or bury it . |
| 30 | We 'd better disappear before he comes to collect , ’ Nails said . |