Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAVING ducked the bullets once , Dennis Conner must do so again today if Stars & Stripes is not to be eliminated from the America 's Cup defenders ' trials in a sudden-death sail-off against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 2 | Er not very long because he er he started a business and er and he did n't do ever so well cos times were bad in the twenties you know as you know . |
| 3 | Jim Baxter 's name would crop up more often than Ronnie Biggs . |
| 4 | Not only will markstones show up more easily when undergrowth has died down , but earthworks can be seen more readily in the low-angle winter sun . |
| 5 | Dealers would bluff even more audaciously than clients . |
| 6 | If you have a detailed outline of the structure and proportions , then if the essay becomes too long , you can work out more precisely where deletions need to be made : take out redundant or duplicated examples ; cut lists shorter , reduce alternative words offered as glosses , etc . |
| 7 | After all , a large fast reactor could cost not much less than £2000 million to build . |
| 8 | But there was so much to do , and it would take twice as long if Nathan had to do it all himself . |
| 9 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 10 | He says his customers would go further afield only if discounting was ferocious , and in such an event believes that prices would soon start going back up as one or more of the big chains went out of business . |
| 11 | Doubt whether they would go up any further than Sharpness though , ’ he had explained . |
| 12 | Your working life can go back as far as April 1936 , but not further . |
| 13 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 14 | Avon 's company secretary , Neil Whittingham , said the 89,000 sq ft scheme which could create 200 jobs , will go ahead almost immediately as planning permission for the greenfield site has been secured . |
| 15 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 16 | On the next occasion they may get only as far as point C and so on until they are virtually unable to leave home . |
| 17 | He would mysteriously shake so badly sometimes that old-timers recommended a large brandy . |
| 18 | We could travel together as far as Doha and I would go on alone to Abu Dhabi . |
| 19 | But the numbers can increase only as fast as fencing , which is expensive . |
| 20 | Of course I 'll fly over straight away if Elinor … ’ |
| 21 | Thus in both countries people in white-collar jobs — managers , administrators , scientists and so on — will grow in numbers while the jobs in manual occupations will increase either more slowly or decline . |