Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It will all depend how long has he owed them it .
2 They even get angry and suggest these are lies put about by foreigners who do not understand how deeply attuned they are to Mother Africa .
3 I could not move fast enough to support him .
4 Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them .
5 The bureau can not operate quickly enough to give us anything approaching a real-time set of accounts .
6 Jessica and Mallachy had moved beyond armed politeness , but not significantly , and there was a palpable edge to many of their exchanges that Karen assumed meant they fancied each other , but could not climb down enough to acknowledge it .
7 Creggan could not turn fast enough to catch them before they dropped untidily into the safety of the trees below .
8 ‘ But when he ca n't carry you any longer , I do hope you will still come up here to visit us . ’
9 They did n't stay there long did they ?
10 no oh you did n't stay there long did you ?
11 Tim and I are just simply out of sync at the moment — I ca n't think how else to put it .
12 ‘ I did n't know where else to put him . ’
13 I did n't know where else to get it in .
14 Well we did n't know where else to send them .
15 ‘ I 'm afraid I do n't know how else to explain it .
16 ‘ I did n't know how else to shake you out of your melancholy — and I did so want Hilary back . ’
17 ‘ I do n't know 'ow ter thank yer , ’ Dad said , grasping Albert by the hand .
18 Well , we did n't do too well did we ?
19 It did n't work very well did it Stuart ?
20 Does n't work anywhere else does it ?
21 As long as it does n't look too obviously like you , he 'll be thrilled .
22 Did n't sleep very well did you ?
23 It do n't take long now does it ?
24 ‘ Well , I did n't have anywhere else to put it at home ! ’
25 ‘ Course I do or I would n't have bloody well asked yer , would I ? ’
26 But me luck do n't hold out forever does it ?
27 In the NI 's first editorial by a woman , Maggie Black described the beauty of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl she met on the road to Selekleka and mourned the transience of that beauty ‘ if policies do n't change fast enough to avoid her back being bent , her hands calloused , her body broken , by the time she is 30 ’ .
28 Of course , yo you do n't go tell him , it do n't come on there does it .
29 She do n't write very well does she ?
30 He did n't get in yesterday to see you because er he 's got , he was very , very busy , he 's got a lot of poorly , really poorly patients at the moment
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