Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
| 2 | But I do so like having you in the game . |
| 3 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 4 | NB If an advertisement says , ‘ write for application form ’ then keep the letter very brief and without personal details as you will only have to repeat them on the form later . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm glad I did n't — it would only have shown us in a very discreditable light . |
| 7 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
| 8 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 9 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 10 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 11 | I think from the County Council 's point of view , the safeguard is there is no proposal to make those available for other spending within the committee and therefore , if hopefully we do not need to access them during the year , they are still available for Council in future years to , to meet other spending requirements . |
| 12 | I can not promise to make you into a world authority on ingredients , but I do hope to share my passion for good food with you , and to inspire you to try a different type of tea or a new way of serving pasta . |
| 13 | Right , well we 'll just need to stuff it in the bag then . |
| 14 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 15 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 16 | In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy . |
| 17 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
| 18 | She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife . |
| 19 | Your brother perhaps will not mind fetching them from the Commissariat . |
| 20 | If you would like additional copies of the leaflet , or have any enquiries about the scheme please do not hesitate to contact me at the Council offices . |
| 21 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 22 | NOW we have sent the Calibans grimacing and snarling back to their caves for a further spell , perhaps nice Mr Major will address himself to a problem with which we did not like to trouble him during the election . |
| 23 | Robert did not like to remind her about the nature of her costume . |
| 24 | ‘ We have a certain operation ahead of us and we would not like to disclose it to the press , ’ team leader Nikita Smidovitch said in Manama last night , hours before a UN plane was to fly to Baghdad . |
| 25 | I was now twenty metres up in the air , and I desperately hoped he would not decide to throw me to the ground . |
| 26 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 27 | Although politicians at the time would certainly not have viewed it in the same light , with the benefit of hindsight , we can claim that , as both of the main political parties broadly supported Keynesian economics and the existence of the mixed economy , the differences between them were , in today 's terms , relatively small . |
| 28 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 29 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 30 | Of course , Mr Nakamura could not have done it without a lot of help from his staff : two of them resigned with him and all other executives are taking a six month pay cut of between 20 per cent and 50 per cent . |