Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [indef pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referring to the burden which subsidies placed on the state budget , Ben Ali said that " we can no longer do nothing in the face of the growth of the compensation costs , which alone absorb one-quarter of state expenditure " . |
| 2 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 3 | ‘ If there comes a day when I think , ‘ Jesus , I ca n't deal with this any more , it 's too much , ’ I 'll drop it or I 'll just fire everyone in the band . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll not have one in the house , ’ she had said , ‘ we 've a larder have n't we ? ’ |
| 5 | The rules of an artificial formal logic will not guide one in the search for the natures of things . |
| 6 | I will wear his clothes , I will not change anything in the house . ’ |
| 7 | It seems , then , that sentences which are not declarative can not express anything in the sense in which factual statements do . |
| 8 | I mean , at the moment there 's no housekeeper so unless I actually say to the maid will you just put something in the oven for me ? |
| 9 | These laws are not perfect and will not satisfy everyone in the Church , but they will achieve provision for women to be ordained as priests — and at the same time seek to respect the consciences of those opposed . |
| 10 | Merton , the lightning-quick deadpan potato-head who would always claim someone in the crowd shouted ‘ porn ’ as a suggested film style and then would do 25 jokes in as many seconds which had nothing whatsoever to do with sweaty shagging . |
| 11 | ‘ But we 'd always get one in the end . |
| 12 | We could always find something in the law to help us . |
| 13 | Clients on income-related benefits get free vouchers , others pay a flat rate fee , though most will probably pay something in the future . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't think anyone in the West would catch on to our ball game . ’ |
| 15 | But Charlton was quick to squash any suggestion his players overstep the mark physically , countering : ‘ I do n't think anyone in the world can point the finger at us and say we 've started a war on a football field . ’ |
| 16 | Well , certainly people are satisfied with where we 've got to and want to draw a line underneath it and move on from there , and I think the prospect of going back to the constitution er issues , and they m once again being a key focus , I do n't think anyone in the Party , or outside the Party , sees the Labour Party wanting to devote itself to that at this time . |
| 17 | No , I , it 's an enormous sum I mean I do n't think anybody in the West is spending er as much as ten percent on armaments and er I heard a on television not so long ago saying that in eighty percent of their industry is on armaments . |
| 18 | Really , I do n't think anybody in the crowd of just over eleven thousand thought United were going to pull anything out of that game . |
| 19 | We could n't discuss anything in the place . |
| 20 | Les Conn : The problem was John ( Bloom ) did n't know anybody in the music business except myself because I was quite well-known at that time in Tin Pan Alley . |
| 21 | all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class ! |
| 22 | So , they could n't do anything in the meantime . |
| 23 | I do n't do anything in the morning you know . |
| 24 | So we 're working on the principal that even if the person does wake up in the operation they 're s not going to sue you cos they ca n't feel anything in the area you 're operating in . |
| 25 | You ca n't look someone in the eye and say ‘ I love you ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Even if we do n't like everything in the response to Arcic I , it will be progress , ’ Dr Runcie said . |
| 27 | Oh no , well erm , I assume we could afford it , he just does n't like one in the bedroom so we have one downstairs . |
| 28 | He could n't see anybody in the alley . |
| 29 | At first he could n't see anything in the semi-darkness . |
| 30 | She could n't see anything in the corner . |