Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , if authenticity is to be defined as natural language behaviour ( and it is hard to see how else it might be defined ) there is also the difficulty that learners will naturally incline to draw on their own language in any situation that calls for uncontrived linguistic communication .
2 Certainly , I 'd I 'd very much like to agree with what that lady said .
3 We 'll only have to go through it all again when we move . ’
4 Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements .
5 Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest .
6 If you are too domineering in your handshake ( and this may be to overcompensate for nerves ) you will antagonize the interviewer who will subconsciously feel threatened on his/her own territory .
7 Finally , independent single-employer ( rather than association ) bargaining meant that US firms could still continue to deal with their own employees — even if they were now organised into trade unions — rather than be faced with an external trade union body against which they had fought for so long ( Sisson , 1984 ) .
8 She could hardly bear to wade through it all .
9 Later on , products mature and become more price-elastic , allowing production advantage to shift to lower-income countries that may later begin exporting on their own account .
10 Many parents will also have shown by their own reading of newspapers , periodicals , lists , calendars , instructions and leaflets and by their sending and receiving of letters and cards that reading plays an important role in their daily lives .
11 With England once more stabilized , it could now afford to look beyond its own divisions and take a role in the affairs of Europe .
12 Paviour greeted the visitor with immaculate politeness , but a certain air of acid disapproval which might well have stemmed from nothing more than nervousness .
13 It would then have gone into his own capital account .
14 Thus shared use of computer , library and training facilities can be organised regionally or nationwide to a level which individual firms could never hope to attain on their own .
15 Turning to stare at Ellie , who was rather horrified by Phena 's behaviour — something she would never have done to her own mother — she accused , ‘ You 're his granddaughter ! ’
16 She could scale the heights and shin down depths that the Squat could never have tackled on his own , or at least not so swiftly .
17 From all that he heard , it was clear that Gaddafi 's position had been secured for him in a way that his palace guard and secret police could never have managed on their own .
18 For Miss Lavender would not , perhaps , have cared , Miss Lavender would never have cried at her own funeral .
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