Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’
2 It was a dark , wet , misty night , and we could only just see someone ahead of us .
3 Personally , I would much rather just give it away to someone who can handle it if I could find them .
4 The life of the anchoress was hard but she did not necessarily give herself over to excessive penance .
5 It will not only knock us around on the slightest whim ; but because of its size as a mature horse , it may become dangerous for us and others to handle .
6 Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career .
7 Multiple record buckets can not be handled in this way , as groups of records that randomize to the same bucket do not generally have anything else in common , so that the whole bucket has to be searched to see if the desired record is in it .
8 One can not just dig it out of language as I thought once . ’
9 She knew you could not possibly manage it all on your own .
10 If what Flynn said was even half true , they could not possibly spin it out until then .
11 I learned that even if you pay the mortgage on your home and your husband contributes nothing to bills , you can not legally lock him out of the matrimonial home .
12 The painting was offered to the National Gallery , who turned it down but did not then offer it on to either the Tate or another likely candidate , the National Gallery of Scotland .
13 Unlike in parts of America , wealth alone can not yet parade itself here as a sole , sufficient mark of human worth .
14 In general , if you ca n't restate someone else 's ideas in your own words , it is likely that you do not yet understand them sufficiently to be able to make appropriate use of them .
15 Though he does not actually tell us much about Eddie he tells us that Eddie could be involved in something bloody .
16 The appointment , as Lovat advised , ‘ would give him the rank of Lieut. & you could easily afterwards get him out of our companys to a marching reg[imen]t either as lieut[enant] or captain ’ .
17 However , the handover of powers brought the institutions that had evolved from the old workhouses into the hands of authorities that could more effectively bring them up to date .
18 You 'd probably just restrict it down to two numbers , zero maps to zero and zero maps back to zero .
19 In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some .
20 ‘ She says she 'll work , and we 'll jolly well keep her up to it !
21 ah , well better take them back after a while then
22 Erm , thank goodness for er modern technology I got them please do n't , do n't all fax them up to the department , er these faxes are very hard to read
23 Do n't just give them away to the adventurers if they do n't bother even to search this room ; they must make an effort to find these bizarre items and take an interest in finding out what they do .
24 So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then .
25 Well I could n't just tell you honestly about that but I think the riveters decided who got what , you know .
26 She did n't just pin them up on her walls , these women , she studied them .
27 You would n't just hand it over to someone else to open .
28 You ca n't just leave it up to the police , or to someone else — and ignoring it wo n't make it go away .
29 She is n't dead — well , I hope she is n't — and I ca n't just put her out of my mind .
30 • When you bring fish home do n't just add them straight to the tank .
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