Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One need not know about them to hold them out as a threat . |
| 2 | Years later my mother could hardly wait for me to pass it on to her . |
| 3 | If you ca n't think of one make it up What 's the difference , what 's the difference |
| 4 | And I can speak for myself thank you very much . |
| 5 | Okay it 's erm I du n no , I du n no how they 'll feel about you phoning them up though to be honest with you . |
| 6 | No , we could do with one to keep everything together cos contracts and that you have |
| 7 | Though you look as though you could do with something to perk you up . |
| 8 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think there have been any new developments since yesterday morning , but I 'll run through them to keep you up to date . ’ |
| 10 | I can understand like you picking one up to get rid of it if you 're not scared of it , but playing with one , keeping it as a pet ! |
| 11 | Surely someone can meaningfully say ‘ I ought to do this , because I promised , even though better consequences would ensue from my doing something else which would involve breaking the promise . ’ |
| 12 | Martha wrote in turn — it did n't occur to her to say it aloud , although Richard could hear perfectly well — BUSY , SHE 'S PACKING . |
| 13 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 14 | We might admit , then , so far as that goes , that you can conceive of its hurting you in someone else 's knee ( a new sense of ‘ His knee is hurting me ’ ) but you can not conceive of its hurting anyone else there . |
| 15 | How would you manage without me to carry you through ? ’ |
| 16 | The proctologist handed me three envelopes , one addressed to each of us , then told me that if I ever had piles I could rely on him to cut them out for cost . |
| 17 | Everlast has made much in recent interviews of HOP 's lack of meaning — they 're just regular guys who enjoy a few bevvies and like to get laid , they do n't pretend otherwise , and no-one should come to them expecting anything else . |
| 18 | Say well I 'm only I 'm gon na come to you to sign you up . |
| 19 | Erm yeah I certainly would encourage you down that path Miss Whittaker that if it helps , I do n't know whether you 've got all the documents , but in our our submissions to the county we suggested that if E two has to survive erm and to add the words , sorry , exactly as you started the sentence but finishing that the exceptions were areas of the sites allocated for development in local plans , it would seem to me to make it absolutely clear what the freedom of local interpretation was in the statutory plan process whilst giving the county the the that it wanted on all the other areas of the county . |
| 20 | I but saw him the once , and yet can not bear for him to despise me so . |
| 21 | ‘ Because I can arrange for you to see him again . ’ |
| 22 | I 'll arrange for you to have it later today together with all your medals , naturally . ’ |
| 23 | And if if the soup was cold she 'd complain after it tell everyone how bad it was but she wo n't |
| 24 | I can not account for its striking me more now than any other day , but it was as if new to me ; and I listened to every sentence he spoke as if to a musical composition . ’ |
| 25 | This transcription machine is going to be lent to be Derek and Clare , who can argue about who has it where and when . |
| 26 | So what did they say about you keeping them on ? ? |
| 27 | If she reacts in this way , it will be best not to try to interfere or worry about her tiring herself out with too much activity , as this may be even more disturbing for her . |