Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you decide to stay in this part of the world , would she consider moving down here to join you ? ’ he asked . |
| 2 | The coral sand will need raking through regularly to prevent it packing down solid and reducing the through-flow . |
| 3 | ‘ While you 're speaking to him , I suggest you ask him if he knows anyone in the building trade who would like to come out here to help you . |
| 4 | They might have fared more comfortably had they sailed a longer journey — from Kingsburgh up to Waternish point , a journey which would then have taken them directly down into Loch Dunvegan — although local people told me the weather here can come up very quickly , and perhaps Allan Macdonald 's boat was not adequately large . |
| 5 | He said he would have done considerably better had he been granted anything approaching equal access to the media and had tricks not been played against him . |
| 6 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 7 | It seems unlikely that a Tibetan would have got up there to take them , but then it could be argued that it 's equally unlikely that a yeti was the culprit . |
| 8 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |
| 9 | Well that was a waste of their time if they 'd have gone round there to view them , were n't it ? |
| 10 | They were the Test Match addicts , very small babies , icecream van drivers or , as in our house , parents with toddlers who WO N'T stay put long enough to let them catch breath , let alone get a tan ! |
| 11 | and we can start going out together love you |