Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must therefore resist any temptation to read a book on doubt like a medical dictionary , or before long we may convince ourselves that we are suffering from every variety of doubt . |
| 2 | The SFO refused comment on the MP 's allegations or on when it will decide if any prosecutions should follow from the Fraser takeover . |
| 3 | But , to be honest , Mildred felt that there had been quite enough animal enchantments in the school to last a lifetime , and it seemed a less desperate measure to do a nice , straightforward kidnap where at least you could see exactly what was happening . |
| 4 | Perhaps Becky had sold everything as he instructed , he thought , as he left the market to carry on down Whitechapel Road where at least he would have a chance to catch up with one of his sisters , rest and gather his thoughts . |
| 5 | I think , I think a shop , if you look at from the shop 's point of view erm I think it is quite understandable and natural that they would , they would either like a receipt or at least they would like to see some evi |
| 6 | The pilot of the future will fly by the flick of her Macintosh mouse — or at least she will gain access to vital information she needs by that means , following that agreement between Apple Computer Inc and Honeywell Inc 's Minneapolis-based Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division . |
| 7 | It was a macabre sight , strongly reminiscent of a scene from a TV western — or at least it would have been . |
| 8 | Or at least it will go for twenty quid in the end if he does n't buy it . |
| 9 | I think that for once we need feel no qualms in taking Diodorus as a faithful epitomizer of what must have been a compact and careful section of Posidonius on the slave war in Sicily . |
| 10 | Let us hope that for once he will stand up and be counted and go down fighting — as go down he assuredly will . |
| 11 | I do n't think it 's necessarily about teaching er children primarily about sex or about sexual pleasure , I think it 's all , initially , about personal hygiene and then developing that into how they can make their life safer for themself , or giving them choices to say , well I can choose to become pregnant or not to become pregnant and , I think it 's more about choices rather than saying orgasms and erm sexual pleasure , or |
| 12 | John Burns will show me a way out of the difficulty [ poverty ] I shall be delighted , but it seems to me that until then I must work ’ . |
| 13 | wait a minute , we 'll leave that in there we 'll let it go out , see how it goes for a couple of months , Glen will know where we can use any money for that anyway for a couple of months |
| 14 | And because I fear that that is the position , I can not help but feel that before long we will have yet another attempt to amend Act seventeen , nineteen sixty three and that we will go round the circuit , the same circuit once again with I fear the same result . |
| 15 | But I knew I could trust you , and that at least you would believe me . |
| 16 | He therefore earnestly begs of me that since you deservedly have the nomination of an Gardner to the Chelsea Garden , which I understand is now vacant , that I would address you in his behalf that at least you would accept of him as an Candidate if there are other competitors and , if found sufficiently qualifyd you would propose him accordingly as you shall find he deserves . |
| 17 | I prop a chair against the iron door every night , so that at least I shall know if he tries to get in without my hearing . |
| 18 | ‘ Just make sure , ’ she continued imperiously , ‘ that you only work until five o'clock , so that at least I can have some privacy in the evenings . ’ |
| 19 | The thought flashed through her mind that at least she would die with Tweed … |
| 20 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 21 | The comforting knowledge that at least she will get as far as the British Embassy tonight gives her the strength for attack . |
| 22 | Sally felt good in it — the fur was gorgeously soft when she buried her chin in it and she thought that at least she could hold her own in the midst of all this elegance . |
| 23 | ‘ He owns us , the studios from which we broadcast and the building they 're in , although by now he must have recovered whatever his original investment was several times over . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm hoping that by tomorrow we 'll know something definite . |
| 25 | I hope that by now you can begin to appreciate the delicacy of discrimination and the moral fervour which I have sought to bring to my work and that you will hold these qualities in your mind when the grossness , vulgarity and immorality of gossip or criticism begins to corrode the lucid purity of my text . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's taught me , and is still teaching me , so many things about football and about when you can do things and when you ca n't . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) spoke eloquently about them in general and about how they would apply in his particular case . |
| 28 | Since any argument that is not purely academic is about how the future is to happen then there is much room for subjectivity , both about how we think the future will happen and about how we should like it to happen . |
| 29 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 30 | The gleam in the missionary 's eye suggested that Jaq 's account of how much he could perceive — ‘ Even to a glimpse of the Emperor 's beacon ? ’ — and of how he could hide his own spark of phosphorescence , meant that this lad was singularly blessed . |