Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 It is legislation in an area in which Parliament itself has not thought it right to legislate and thus , in my view , it steps outside the judicial function .
2 Reports from the OECD and NATO 's science committee have come to similar conclusions , but so far no one has quite got it together to act on a Europe wide scale .
3 So you look at that and you say okay differentiate it once to get the V differentiate it again to get acceleration and it 'll come to minus K X.
4 Well I think we 'd better leave them just to do what they like , cos I expect Gwen wants to get on with her dinner now .
5 Some , I hear , are split down the middle within themselves and are going back to see it twice to make up their minds about the play !
6 ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French .
7 In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding .
8 It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’
9 It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church .
10 It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland .
11 Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife .
12 As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential .
13 But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it .
14 It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis .
15 It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off .
16 ‘ I did not call you here to discuss the offices . ’
17 It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose .
18 I do not think it right to ban all these services .
19 ‘ I did n't bring you here to talk about my relationship with Marianne , ’ he cut in brusquely .
20 ‘ I did n't bring you here to open up all the old wounds again , ’ he growled at last .
21 I did n't bring you here to upset you .
22 ‘ I 've got this irksome fetish for using the natural colours surrounding a place to decorate the interior — but I did n't bring you here to discuss my schizophrenic choice of living surroundings , Virginia .
23 And I did n't tell you now to make , probably that .
24 His parents did n't send him here to have the teachers live his life for him . ’
25 Knowing that Adam always liked to keep his options open , Miranda was forced to the lonely conclusion that he did n't love her enough to commit himself to her for life .
26 Yes , eventually I did put it down to your job , worried about Steve being so long away and anxious to tie up the contract , but there was a worse fear — that you just did n't love me enough to want to stay with me . ’
27 I even tried laying trails of cheese that led to my feet , which she scoffed up , but she did n't trust me enough to take the cheese from my hand .
28 ‘ I 'm sure you did n't ring me just to tell me that , ’ she replied , in no mood for light-hearted flirtation , try to pin on a brave face though she might .
29 You did n't ask me here to talk about your summer holidays . ’
30 ‘ But you did n't ask me here to comment on a perfectly straightforward signal .
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