Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAFOD , on behalf of the church in this country , are asking people to write to their MP to stress that this country should not be cutting aid , but rather seeing how we can increase it . |
| 2 | The church could perhaps think how it might reach out to such people , and offer facilities and friendships that make life easier for people to face while they search for meaning in their lives . |
| 3 | actually I , the dose that I had to take , I cut them down to see how it would go but , I must admit , I suffered from it Doctor , |
| 4 | She 's only looking so she can say do n't take that one , do n't take that one and I like that as well . |
| 5 | thing and that 's without a pump , so to set up it 'll cost me probably a thousand and a bit and I want and then I 'll need to have the rest of the money left over to survive |
| 6 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 7 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 8 | Grey-leaved cinerarias will continue through the winter , so save any you may have . |
| 9 | In many other cases , one may agree with Halliday that " a rough indication of frequencies is often just what is needed : enough to suggest why we should accept the analyst 's assertion that some feature is prominent in the text , and allow us to check his statements " . |
| 10 | The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ . |
| 11 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 12 | If I had n't been so snowed under I 'd have phoned myself , and you could have reminded me . |
| 13 | So sitting there he can hear all that is being said down here ; a notable convenience on occasion , I am told ! |
| 14 | A man like that can always replace his front-line troops , so to get only them would have been pointless . ’ |
| 15 | I took him into the hangar where the kites were and stroked his uniform , I kissed his insignia , Then I found out how far his freckles went down , I got him so worked up he 'd have promised me anything to let him do it to me That was really how he saw it , it was something he wanted to do to a girl . |
| 16 | After all the way in which you talk to someone greatly determines how they will understand your message . |
| 17 | Come on , Luke , you 're the boss , the one with all the answers , so explain how I can rid myself of this resentment I feel at having you foist yourself on me again ! ’ |
| 18 | Try to give details in logical order ( eg explain when you will have an item in stock before you tell the customer where to park ) . |
| 19 | It 's not got the creative thing , which , I mean , competition , to get a a ten , or a nine , you 've got ta really have some creative element in it , this has n't quite got that , but it is a very strong picture and , and very nicely photographed so I 'll give this one , eight . |
| 20 | God alone knows where we 'll find Tiw . ’ |
| 21 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
| 22 | Then what you might say is well what ar y'know erm you might say well s one define aggression , two define one theory , define the other and then y'know just structure it so you 're talking about single or sentences maybe on on a line that go down to very little but enough to show how you would go about answering the question . |
| 23 | . It 's not raining now I could have put everything out . |
| 24 | Well that one actually 's not advertized so it might have gone . |
| 25 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |
| 26 | But as it stands , this declaration does not explain why we should accept these criteria , nor why Lenin 's proposal is anything other than arbitrary . |
| 27 | Even if we were to accept that no legislator should vote for the compromise , this would not explain why we should reject the compromise as an out-come . |
| 28 | When Anna 's mother finally got home she would find her daughter waiting for her , having safely accomplished her mission . |
| 29 | Even so , navigation would be a problem — especially since you could not predict where you would arrive . |
| 30 | When the other person is an unknown commodity and we can not predict how they will react , the greater is our requirement for the armour of indirectness . |