Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm Quechua , but I do n't want to work as hard as they must do . |
| 2 | ‘ I kept sleeping in , and I did n't want to come in late because you get a row or a detention — so I just stayed off . ’ |
| 3 | we do n't really need to go any further because we 've found it 's not balanced but we just for completeness , how many Cs on this side ? |
| 4 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 5 | The tremolo would probably need setting up properly because it feels stiff and uneven in use . |
| 6 | A second function which I do n't want to dwell on now because I 'm gon na deal with it in a lot more detail next week , is o o this is a second function of calcium activated K channels , is to release potassium from epith epithelial cells during fluid and electrolyte secretion . |
| 7 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |
| 8 | Yeah but if you 'd like to come back though cos he 's at lunch at the moment . |
| 9 | In 1979 he appeared in Coppola 's Apocalypse Now , but his career did n't really begin to pick up again until he checked into Cedar-Sinai Medical Center 's drug abuse programme in 1984 . |
| 10 | For her , apart from the rewards of her job ( which she may plan to give up anyway when her parent becomes more dependent ) , her life is centred on a household where she knows she may have to deal with a slow decline in the health and strength of her relative , with all that implies for both of them in the future . |
| 11 | " I 'd like to sleep as much as anyone , but if we all sleep and something comes , who 's going to spot it ? " |
| 12 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd like to stay on here when it runs out , though , because I think of this as my home now . ’ |
| 14 | There 's no way that we can ever hope to get along better than we already do ! ’ |
| 15 | Could you all just stop breathing now please till we get home ! |
| 16 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 17 | Do n't try to go out backwards unless there is ample space for the glider to go straight through . |
| 18 | Your marriage must have broken down irretrievably because you and your husband or wife have lived apart either for at least two years and your husband or wife will consent to the divorce in writing or for at least five years . |
| 19 | Well the insurance would have to go as well as I could n't afford to keep that going . |
| 20 | I would have to go as fast as I could while I could still see the way , and then rest for longer , and then probably crawl . |
| 21 | ‘ I only overhang the couch by a foot or so at each end ; why do n't I attempt to curl up there when you and Janice are in residence , if not flagrante , in the bedroom ? ’ |
| 22 | and then I was trying to come out and I started to pull out into a gap and Brian said oh know , do n't pull out I said oh okay , he said the thing is your fairly tight so your gon na have to come out slowly so you need a bigger gap than otherwise . |
| 23 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 24 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 25 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 26 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 27 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 28 | My second example of an evolutionary progression that did n't happen because of disadvantageous intermediates , even though it might ultimately have turned out better if it had , concerns the retina of our eyes ( and all other vertebrates ) . |
| 29 | The Elector Counts could not have done otherwise even if they had wanted ; the people demanded it , and were not to be denied . |
| 30 | The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations . |