Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 2 | I would rather describe it as a lively interest . ’ |
| 3 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 4 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 5 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Flittern said , folding himself onto the bench beside her , ‘ we could perhaps tempt you with a bottled rogue amorous thought , distilled at the first quarter of the moon , and salted with a spark of starlight . |
| 6 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 7 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 8 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 9 | This view of what we infer from reading ( 9 ) will only provide us with a limited insight into how readers interpret what they read . |
| 10 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 11 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 12 | The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes . |
| 13 | We can only approach them on a narrow front , because of this river valley 's construction . |
| 14 | They should all have them from a similar area because most of the time they say oh well they live so far away |
| 15 | I had better take one from a Conservative Member now . |
| 16 | The verderers ' familiarity with the district from earlier years could only serve them in a general way , for the woodland paths varied from season to season . |
| 17 | When Ferrar received it he read it over and over and kissed and embraced it , saying that he could not sufficiently admire it as a rich jewel , and most worthy to be in the hands and hearts of all true Christians that feared God and loved the Church of England . |
| 18 | We are now hearing that our outlook is so bad that we had better leave it to an independent central bank to decide the important aspects of our future . |
| 19 | The rejection of the ruling mode of dealing with the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power ( through market constraints or the internal structure of the company ) does not necessarily lead one into an inconclusive political debate about the merits of the capitalist system . |
| 20 | ( h ) I have no evidence at all from her mother or from any other source that Miss T. 's following of some of the beliefs and some of the practices is so well thought out or deeply considered or sincerely held that the conviction is one which would necessarily lead her to an irrevocable refusal . |
| 21 | Even if we were to obtain substantial concessions and eliminate all our strategic nuclear weapons , we could not eliminate all theirs , so we would merely leave them with a residual capability which would be overwhelming and a continual menace to ourselves . |
| 22 | I er I can only write it from a Jewish perspective , it 's the perspective I stand at , but it seems to me that beyond a few superficialities there is no such thing as Jewish spiritual truth any more than there is Jewish mathematical truth . |
| 23 | Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’ |
| 24 | And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding , the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss . |
| 25 | Most dogs come from warm , dry , quiet houses and to suddenly find themselves in a noisy , cold , wet concrete kennels is unkind . |
| 26 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 27 | It would naturally commend itself to an American think-tank . |
| 28 | Death is always a failure in hospital , and the business and routine of life in the medical and surgical wards do not lend themselves to a personal death ( Sudnow 1967 ) . |
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| 30 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |