Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
2 | But I do so like having you in the game . |
3 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
4 | NB If an advertisement says , ‘ write for application form ’ then keep the letter very brief and without personal details as you will only have to repeat them on the form later . |
5 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
6 | I 'm glad I did n't — it would only have shown us in a very discreditable light . |
7 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
8 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
9 | Right , well we 'll just need to stuff it in the bag then . |
10 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
11 | She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife . |
12 | have er , oh well I 'll just have to put them in the oven they 'll go brown under the oven wo n't they ? |
13 | ‘ Well , you 'll just have to hump it up the stairs as best you can , wo n't you . |
14 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
15 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
16 | If the frost comes early , I 'll just have to bring them into the airing cupboard wo n't I ? ’ |
17 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
18 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
19 | Billy could easily have ferried her across the river in his boat , as he had done many times before . |
20 | So I 'll just say thank you to the management of the Seraglio for allowing this conference to take place in such pleasant surroundings , and to you ladies for giving up your weekend to be here . |
21 | IN 1900 Tiller had an idea for a routine which excited him so much he could hardly wait to show it to the public . |
22 | You 'll still have to join it at the back |
23 | The interesting question is , under today 's restrictions , just how many of America 's great leaders of the past would still have made it to the White House . |
24 | OK , so it used to be called ‘ mother 's ruin' and it 's reputation among the more desperate of women as a way of sorting out an inconvenient pregnancy problem might hardly have endeared it to the more sober . |
25 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
26 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
27 | But its disappearance will be of serious concern to the growing medium-sized business needing a serious injection of equity to continue to fulfil its potential and also the venture capitalist who may always have seen it as a desired exit route for an investment . |
28 | The public would still pay to see them at the cinema . |
29 | What happens to their income support , do they still continue to receive it at a reduced rate ? |
30 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |