Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Or if someone says What are you doing ? we can just answer Eating a mango instead of I am eating a mango because we know that I am is understood and does not have to be said .
2 We do not guarantee to resell a ticket so deposited .
3 And you probably would not choose to spend a fortnight up the Amazon with either .
4 Do not hesitate to throw a card away after rewriting it in a better form .
5 He can understand imagining something ( a cave , perhaps ) as a dwelling ; but can not understand imagining a butterfly exactly as it is , but ugly .
6 In London , I thought , a request of that sort would not have produced an answer in under a week , if at all .
7 Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area .
8 It gives them greater job mobility but also a large number of people aged in their 20s who would not have had a pension now have them .
9 And that she 'll just have to take a chance tonight .
10 I had eight realistic birdie chances and might easily have had an eagle out there today . ’
11 The growers are unhappy they 'll soon have to travel a lot further than the Vale of Evesham to get help .
12 There are lessons in that for people thinking about applying this year , and who may not intend to take a year off .
13 Virgin , as Branson well knew , could not afford to buy an aircraft outright ; nor would it be wise to do so .
14 Liverpool can not afford to concede a goal tonight - and James has yet to keep a clean sheet .
15 Liverpool can not afford to concede a goal tonight - and James has yet to keep a clean sheet .
16 The treatment of space is what good design is all about but far too many people think that if they can not afford to change a room structurally nothing else is going to alter the look and feel .
17 The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away .
18 FARMERS WEEKLY Farms can not justify owning a combine indeed , we have contract-hired one from Agricultural Plant Hire since 1972 .
19 Mr Wolski could not help remembering a time when he had been a fugitive outside the fences of Sobibor in the scrubland of the Parczew Forest .
20 The fears that had driven him to race frantically out to the Lock seemed so ridiculous now that he could not help making a joke out of them , and himself .
21 One difficulty remains in that a mining venture would still need to find a way through to the deposit in a place where the sedimentary layer is not too thick .
22 SHORT of selecting a dead student , the Nobel Prize Committee could hardly have made a choice more calculated to embarrass and enrage the Chinese leadership .
23 When people employ a builder to repair their house , they will probably want to agree a price beforehand .
24 She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North .
25 And before the funeral the they would he would probably have to take a window out of the house .
26 Trainer Toby Balding blamed Richard Guest for making too much use of Romany King and this hugely promising eight-year-old did probably start racing a bit too far from home for comfort .
27 Regression therapy can also involve taking a patient back into the womb .
28 The difference between modes of address and pronouns is that the use of pronouns is unavoidable , particularly since pronominal reference is coded in the inflection of verbs in many languages , whereas one can often avoid addressing a person directly .
29 I mean you ca n't really afford to take a unit out .
30 Sure you do n't want to see a dentist just to make sure it 's all right ?
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