Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather throw her off the Empire State Building ! |
| 2 | If I 'm going to snuff it , I 'd rather snuff it with a pint in my fist than one of their bloody mugs of Ovaltine . |
| 3 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 4 | Of course , there are some men who will naturally regard you as an equal . |
| 5 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 6 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 7 | Churchill , the First Sea Lord and England 's hero , could only describe it in the House on October 17 as ‘ a remarkable exploit of skill and daring ’ . |
| 8 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 9 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 10 | But as Celia says , the trouble is that so many people , they will only buy it in a year . |
| 11 | Which is sold everywhere today , you could only buy it in a chemist shop , tea . |
| 12 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 13 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 14 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 15 | ‘ If the weather 's dry and if you do n't mind how you treat your car — or maybe you could only do it in a jeep , I 've never tried it . |
| 16 | If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring . |
| 17 | Do n't worry , I sha n't suddenly present you with a bastard grandchild . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You better send me to a tutorial college before I 'm too old . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Our drivers can only negotiate them at a maximum of 15mph , ’ he said . |
| 20 | In respect of the foregoing it must be understood that the interpretation put upon the word ‘ selfishness ’ in this book is one which does not necessarily brand it as a vice . |
| 21 | Were n't you saying in the tent only yesterday : " When Charles has been beaten and stripped of his weapons , I 'll personally tonsure him as a cleric and take him back to Ravenna " ? |
| 22 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 23 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 24 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 25 | He would only see it as a weakness to be used against her , or worse , as an attempt to ingratiate herself . |
| 26 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 27 | ( For example , by commuting a communication through PAR using 5.6 or 5.7 , one might apparently remove it from the alphabet of the corresponding process . ) |
| 28 | Evans did admit buying a can of petrol on the way to Birdlip , but he thought White would only use it as a threat to rob Mr Stokle , nothing too serious . |
| 29 | They can only use it as a source of energy after alcohol has been processed by the liver . |
| 30 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |