Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not going to London , Dana ; I do n't want to drive any further today and I have business here . |
| 2 | I did n't see why I should enjoy living again so soon when poor Catherine had had all that she valued slowly torn away from her … ’ |
| 3 | And the county do n't send us copy letters , so , chair it does need sorting out as far as we 're concerned as well . |
| 4 | ‘ With the Captain 's permission , I 'd like to retire there right now and get some sleep before this impostor arrives . ’ |
| 5 | We 'd like to go out reasonably early if we could . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll have to go out much earlier than that . |
| 7 | If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible . |
| 8 | " I shall have to pull up as near as I can and let you out , said Woodie . |
| 9 | Black staff should not have to train twice as hard as their white colleagues . |
| 10 | He was surprised that the memory should have come back so keenly and at such a moment . |
| 11 | Yet for the growth of the later strident and vigorous anticlericalism , the self-consciousness of the laity was a prerequisite , and on a national scale it is by no means certain that this lay identity would have come about so forcefully or so quickly had parliament not been ready to hand as a vehicle in which to rally hostility and an instrument by which to further it . |
| 12 | Otherwise I have no doubt you would have done so long ago and at some length . |
| 13 | He must have grown up now just as she had done . |
| 14 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 15 | Mankind would have died out long ago if this was the case . |
| 16 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 17 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 18 | She thought she would have to hold on extremely tightly if they were to go any faster , but she thought it was a thrilling , intoxicating sensation to be borne along like this . |
| 19 | Having made a decision on travel as their retirement hobby , they may have to live very modestly so as to finance their trips overseas . |
| 20 | I would not have started up so guiltily and … the Lord works in mysterious ways . |
| 21 | You 'll have to get back there tomorrow and get them all done . |
| 22 | A substantial achievement for a company that might have ended up dead less than two years ago |
| 23 | I was not conscious of this — it could have lasted twice as long as far as I was concerned . |
| 24 | If you have to go out to earn a living or live up to commitments and promises you should aim to get back as soon as possible . |
| 25 | ‘ You wo n't want to get up that early if you 're visiting people . ’ |
| 26 | It would seem to stand more peacefully now when considering that there used to be much bustle and slamming of doors , the shouts and cries of a houseful of children and the ailing Reverend Tennyson . |
| 27 | This will make dining out much easier and of course extends the variety of protein foods beyond fish , chicken and cottage cheese ! |
| 28 | Secondly , if the joke is so successful that it gets a lot of laughter you do not want to rush on so fast that your next words can not be heard . |