Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a macabre sight , strongly reminiscent of a scene from a TV western — or at least it would have been . |
| 7 | Or at least it will go for twenty quid in the end if he does n't buy it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Let us hope that for once he will stand up and be counted and go down fighting — as go down he assuredly will . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But I knew I could trust you , and that at least you would believe me . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | The thought flashed through her mind that at least she would die with Tweed … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The comforting knowledge that at least she will get as far as the British Embassy tonight gives her the strength for attack . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm hoping that by tomorrow we 'll know something definite . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Figure 8 shows the Utilities Screen and from here you can choose and run a variety of the helpful programs available in DOS5 . |
| 26 | Erm what will happen is that we will er hopefully at this meeting er set a budgetary , budgetary position within the guidelines required by the policy committee and then that will go forward together with all the other service committees to the policy committee on the twenty seventh of January and from then we will go on to the County Council on the fifteenth of February . |
| 27 | That 's the sort of the general trend erm and from there we can go on to other things . |
| 28 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 29 | The bell tower is the highest building in the city , and from there you 'll see a carpet of red-roofed houses rolled out below you . |
| 30 | These , like the basic set , begin with instructions for all these lovely patterns in the basic state and from there you can run through a gamut of colour alteration , tension experiments and striped treatments . |