Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That bloody young fool will only bring Sharpe if he thinks it 'll cause trouble . |
| 32 | On the remarks that women 's contributions in the field of business , finance , religion , charity work , etc , were totally ignored , I can only assume Alexandra Wallace overlooked the extensive exhibitions on the work of the Church of Scotland Woman 's Guild , Oxfam in Scotland , Amnesty International and the Scottish Refugee Council ( I could go on ) . |
| 33 | He said : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 34 | Pierre Beregovoy , the Finance Minister , told a business meeting : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 35 | Then you had better show Miss Salmon into the parlour , ’ said Charlie with a grin . |
| 36 | The scene does not necessarily present Brutus in an unfavourable light . |
| 37 | ‘ Better hurry Woolley advised . |
| 38 | And he could only keep William and stop the court from giving Mummy custody if she were at home to help care for her brother . |
| 39 | I would very much like CPRW to join , not because it might lead to an international jolly ( some hope ! ) , but because I think it would be a feather in CPRW 's cap , we will benefit from their advice and information , and we will be able to contribute something at a UK level . |
| 40 | Liberty ( formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties ) does not much like Mrs Mills 's ideas . |
| 41 | They did not much like Oliver Cromwell and his dangerous toleration of loose religion , but his regime gave them the chance to start again . |
| 42 | I do n't much like Turgenev — I think the death of Bazarov in Fathers and Sons is unconvincing and unfair to the reader — and I always have my watch fifteen minutes fast . |
| 43 | Mr Hobbs said ‘ your husband ’ as if he did n't much like Richard , and for some reason this pleased me . |
| 44 | New York is uncommon political turf , and Mr Brown has been helped mightily by a press that prides itself on its aggression and which does not much like Mr Clinton . |
| 45 | Nikolaus Pevsner did not much like Bridehead 's rather whacky Tudor style , referring to it in his Buildings of England as ‘ excruciatingly awkward ’ . |
| 46 | Would-be interpreters studying the music could not only see Elgar 's intentions in the printed score , but could follow the creative process a stage further — to the ultimate stage , in fact , and hear the creator realize his work in its natural medium , that of sound . |
| 47 | If she could only see Troy now , he would help her to decide ! |
| 48 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 49 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 50 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 51 | It was clear from Artai 's expression that he wished to show that he did not entirely believe Burun 's protest . |
| 52 | I can only attribute Dawn 's remarks to her excessive loyalty . |
| 53 | You had better remember Richard not to er leave them th behind . |
| 54 | The Austrians would not accept an eviction ; the Russians could only remove Ferdinand , if he did not resign , at the cost of a general war . |
| 55 | Why do you only use Marks and Spencers ' chickens . |
| 56 | ‘ I think we had better ring Wadkins , do n't you , just to check out these facts ? ’ |
| 57 | Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life . |
| 58 | I was going to take them , I was going to take them , and I said , Oh I 'd better , I 'd better see Dr first . |
| 59 | Well you 'd better see Mark first and and let them have them back . |
| 60 | Had n't you better contact Pickfords . |