Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of Fen 's objections to her presence , should she stay down here and keep a low profile , or should she risk going up on deck ? |
| 2 | I 'll hang up now and clear the line . ’ |
| 3 | If the ILP members were " to the Left " of their leaders , then it was logical that they should advance still further and join the Communist Party . |
| 4 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 5 | There are three strands of answer to this , each of which has much purchase ; I can do no better than to let the espousers of the three strands speak for themselves . |
| 6 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 7 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 9 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 10 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 11 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 12 | A smaller Cabinet , mostly of non-Departmental ministers , would really be able to listen and understand more easily and hear the others arguing the matter out . |
| 13 | If we stay put they can stay up there and fry the valley bottom , and us with it . |
| 14 | It had seemed a little exaggerated that an elderly woman could move so rapidly and catch a younger man off guard . |
| 15 | In particular , the real wage will adjust spontaneously so as to prevent the emergence of excess supply in the labour market . |
| 16 | He saw that Lewis would not re-enter Christianity by a new door but by the old one : at least in the sense that in taking it up again he would also take up again or reawaken the prejudices so sedulously planted in childhood and boyhood . |
| 17 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 18 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 19 | " You 'd better ride back now and check the baggage carts , " he said sharply . |
| 20 | Erm and I think it 'll happen again tonight as happened a fortnight ago . |
| 21 | Th was it 's a little personal thing w with me , erm and I think it 'll happen again tonight as happened a fortnight ago . |
| 22 | Why do n't you go right ahead and get the details , and then we 'll be in touch again ? ’ |
| 23 | ’ , ‘ Gently , gently , the floor … ’ ) , seeing that all was well I did not go right in or disturb the piles of old magazines , wormy furniture , books , and china lying there ; after all , they belonged to the house . |
| 24 | He told himself that he should go right now and plant the explosives to bring the tunnel down , but the Doctor 's curiosity was one of his strongest features . |
| 25 | He 'll go down there and fight the lot of them . |
| 26 | Listen , I 'll go in tomorrow and kick the shit out of the fellows who did it . ’ |
| 27 | You can walk all round and have a look at the things and then go to the end and pay . |
| 28 | I 'll creep down later and borrow a couple of items from Auntie 's handbag and then I 'll be set . |
| 29 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 30 | I 'd say more than that , in fact I 'd go so far as to mention the name of Blanche Ingram and the word , marriage . |