Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do rather think of ourselves in this area as ‘ Medaus out in the sticks ’ , being a long way from the hub , so to speak . |
| 2 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 3 | Rachel could only glare at him in silent hatred , not trusting herself to speak . |
| 4 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 5 | But the others could only stare at him in speechless amazement . |
| 6 | You have a dialogue box to go through in order to amend the entry , and you can only get to it by double clicking on the item 's stock code . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , perhaps you 'd better talk to them about that . ’ |
| 8 | Rolle can only talk about it in figurative terms . |
| 9 | The moment she thought of Peter , then Martin ( no , she would not think of him in that ridiculous way with a small m ) no longer looked so good , so handsome . |
| 10 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
| 11 | — or does not think of you at all . |
| 12 | ‘ You must not think of it like that , dear , ’ Stevie told her gently . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all . |
| 14 | One is that he is rather clean and tidy and polite and fastidious as a person ; the sweatier , wilder , rawer , dirtier areas of human sexuality do not appeal to him at all . |
| 15 | Anna decided that she must not profit by it in any way and consulted Constanza — she always did : You are my chief heir and it will affect you — Constanza told her to go ahead . |
| 16 | Otherwise you 'll , you 'll not speak to him at all cos I shall just pick the phone up and say |
| 17 | ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that . |
| 18 | ‘ You do not speak to me like that . |
| 19 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 20 | You see , he does n't just speak to us for small talk , he does n't just speak to while away the time with , with conversation . |
| 21 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 22 | Jenking said he thought they were on the Dean and that they would soon beat over it into deeper water . |
| 23 | The different access that people from different social class origins have to resources in retirement is a major determinant of who can and who can not provide for themselves in old age . |
| 24 | But she could not believe in him as that kind of reverent fan , whatever his enthusiasm for his subject . |
| 25 | He would just look at her with those piercing eyes and make her feel as vulnerable as she was beginning to realise she was . |
| 26 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
| 27 | She kept her eyes lowered to make sure that she did not look at me at this moment , at my own quite irrelevant scars . |
| 28 | So do not look at me in that accusing way , little sister ! ’ |
| 29 | We do not look at ourselves in any kind of subservient relationship . ’ |
| 30 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |