Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 2 | When you open the file , a file handle ( an integer number ) is returned by the interpreter and you will need to store it for future use . |
| 3 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 4 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 5 | Number one is , I do n't like using it on wet grass . |
| 6 | I would prefer to keep it in natural wood if we can but |
| 7 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 8 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 9 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 10 | He would have seen it as infantile behaviour . |
| 11 | But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’ |
| 12 | One minute We 're welcome to collaborate with the person next to you , you do n't have to do it in splendid isolation . |
| 13 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 14 | Do you have to dip it in hot water or something ? |
| 15 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 16 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |
| 17 | If you have a regional accent , do not attempt to change it to standard English . |
| 18 | It could be only a very moderate charge , in the darkness , since any gallop could have put them into dire trouble over unseen obstacles , whinbushes , ditches and the like . |
| 19 | The person taking the goods must have taken them in good faith without notice of the agent 's lack of authority . |
| 20 | Some women would have taken it in good humour . ’ |
| 21 | It was a sensible decision and he may have taken it in full awareness of this . |
| 22 | Let us imagine that I have the misfortune to be born or to have settled in Portugal ; being an enlightened philosopher I dislike the institutions there ; should I try to change them by political subversion ? |
| 23 | ( And even if the political will did exist , he doubted whether the institutions which would have to translate it into collective action were strong enough to do so . ) |
| 24 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 25 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 26 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 27 | ‘ Swindon are a good side , but we would have beaten them at Ayresome Park but for a crazy final ten minutes . ’ |
| 28 | Not only do you have to fold it with fastidious care to avoid pinching and clouding the plastic rear window , but fitting it in a hurry is simply impossible . |
| 29 | The monstrous irony is that as long as he does n't place bolts nobody will bother accusing him of environmental vandalism . |
| 30 | This will tend to incline them toward petty theft . |