Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 2 | It is without any pleasure that I seek once more to call the attention of the House to the problems faced by Derbyshire police force . |
| 3 | Sleep has left me and I feel that I have not long to live . |
| 4 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 5 | As you near the end of your first video safari , the low-battery warning in your viewfinder may begin to flash , indicating that you have not long to go before switch-off for the day . |
| 6 | That 's why it 's impossible to be prescriptive about how you should allocate your own time — and that 's why it 's essential that you learn how best to manage your time for yourself . |
| 7 | It 's important to plan , so we predict how best to treat them . |
| 8 | She marvels that they flow so easily to fill the vast space in which she moves . |
| 9 | ‘ They say that they have nowhere else to go , but I know that facing the world on their own would be even more frightening . ’ |
| 10 | If I last long enough to get to the air … . |
| 11 | Well Dorothy got er , some to knit something for Bryony and she actually got too much so if I do run out if I have n't enough to finish this er er vest , T-shirt summer top , whatever it 's called she 'll have some . |
| 12 | ‘ Such a shame about the weather , and you have n't long to enjoy our Mediterranean climes , have you , my dear ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't doubt that , Claudia , but you also want to keep me away from Garry , ’ she added shrewdly , ‘ and you want even more to keep me away from Roman . |
| 14 | Unlike traditional sales where you wait until you get round there to tell them what the price is you have you have to er tell them what er the price on the phone . |
| 15 | ‘ People get bored if you try hard enough to tell them how things were . ’ |
| 16 | " If you have somewhere else to go , you will go . " |
| 17 | ‘ It 's more than possible , it 's probable , but until we know where else to look we 'll look here . |
| 18 | But if we react too strongly to fear , the brake is applied so hard that we come to a standstill , and fail to grow — which means a wasted lifetime . |
| 19 | She nodded , and they set off again to find a Venice few tourists saw . |
| 20 | During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way . |
| 21 | ‘ But I 've nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I would be glad to leave it , but I have nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 23 | By deprivation I mean that the parents or school recognized the child 's achievements , but only grudgingly , for example , ‘ You have done quite well ’ or ‘ You 've passed this exam , but you have still more to pass ’ . |
| 24 | Supposed to start at six , but we go in earlier to get stuff ready . |
| 25 | It will not be very comfortable for you there , but we have nowhere else to put you . |
| 26 | Paul starts to move the boats to the top of the falls whilst I run on ahead to talk to the police at the top of the falls with the nice man from the Northern Echo . |
| 27 | ‘ I wo n't let it happen — now get your hands off me before I scream loud enough to wake the guards at the Chinese border ! ’ |
| 28 | What happens if , as you move in close to grab his arm , he suddenly kicks you hard in the groin , and then stabs you as you double over in agony ? |
| 29 | But the detective in a detective novel is not altogether your real policeman , though you do well never to make him ( if he is a police officer ) flout details of proper police procedure . |
| 30 | For when you are dry , empty , sick , or weak , at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to me though you find little enough to enjoy in it ’ ’ |