Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as they passed the rows upon rows of back yards , the grey washing on curious pulleys , the backs of hardboard dressing tables , the dust-bins and the coal sheds , it occurred to her to wonder why she should so suddenly feel herself to be peculiarly blessed , and a dreadful grief for all those without blessings took hold of her , and a terror at the singular nature of her escape . |
| 2 | Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task . |
| 3 | This should not however blind us to its reappearance . |
| 4 | But it is out of respect for your views , Mr Lewis , that I feel one should not simply cast them to one side as though they were uttered by some soap-box eccentric . |
| 5 | " If I do n't , " he thought , " they 'll very likely tear me to bits : and much good may it do them . " |
| 6 | But even more secret , so secret that I could scarcely even admit it to myself , was my sense of inadequacy . |
| 7 | An amputee , she could not yet accustom herself to what was lost and gone , lost as her parents scattered in fragments over the Nevada desert . |
| 8 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 9 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 10 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 11 | You might say you could measure its position to ten decimal places , but you could always then measure it to eleven and predict a completely different result ; all the difference between a whirlwind which knocked down someone 's house and a single molecule of oxygen disappearing up their nose . |
| 12 | They 'd probably still give it to you . ’ |
| 13 | A lot of them , of course , were so secret that Mr Marr could n't even show them to me . |
| 14 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 15 | you could n't really take him to a tribunal could you , 'cos ya |
| 16 | For instance , Wordsworth 's famous poem ‘ My heart leaps up ’ is in 6/8 metre , and one could quite easily fit it to the 6/8 tune of ‘ Jack and Jill ’ : Of course , the result is horrific . |
| 17 | Her bedside book , often reread , was Anthony Trollope 's The Small House at Allington but tonight it could no longer translate her to the reassuring , comfortable , nostalgic world of Barsetshire , to croquet on Mrs Dale 's lawn and dinner at the squire 's table . |
| 18 | Now for copyright reasons , if you want to do the Blind Watchmaker , and I 'd very much like you to , you 've got ta borrow the disk from me , okay ? |
| 19 | They remained fearful of the opening of any loophole that would more easily expose them to fraud or abuse of the credit they had extended in good faith . |
| 20 | But whatever the proportion agreed with the taxman , the cost of superfluous luxury , of expensive servicing and of trading-in a fully-depreciated old faithful for a new machine would once again mean something to the wallet of Mr Toad 's great-grandson . |
| 21 | As for that girl , if it was my father , he would n't just take you to the CRE , he would also give you a good thump . |
| 22 | He took the bus , because his parents would n't always drive him to auditions , from Malibu to Santa Monica , 25 miles each way , at the age of thirteen , ‘ and the casting directors would literally take a Polaroid and say thank you very much and you got back on the bus . ’ |
| 23 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |
| 24 | ‘ I can understand your reluctance to talk about what 's happened but you ca n't just push it to one side . |
| 25 | Yeah , everyone was going on at how rough they are , I mean you ca n't as I 've said before you ca n't exactly expect them to be super models . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't possibly allow myself to be happy now , because I had an affair/caused a car crash/stole some money/had sex with my brother or sister/ was cruel to my dog/betrayed my best friend — five , ten or twenty years ago . |
| 27 | you ca n't safely send them to the toilet alone . |
| 28 | I ca n't actually give it to you because it will amuse suspicion from the guard . |
| 29 | Er well I ca n't really sing it to you , cos it 's on tape at the moment . |
| 30 | She was arranging to have an abortion when her father found out , and told her if she went through with this , he would no longer consider her to be part of his family . |