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 . ’
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