Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 2 | Rachel could only glare at him in silent hatred , not trusting herself to speak . |
| 3 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 4 | But the others could only stare at him in speechless amazement . |
| 5 | You have a dialogue box to go through in order to amend the entry , and you can only get to it by double clicking on the item 's stock code . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , perhaps you 'd better talk to them about that . ’ |
| 7 | Rolle can only talk about it in figurative terms . |
| 8 | You see , he does n't just speak to us for small talk , he does n't just speak to while away the time with , with conversation . |
| 9 | Jenking said he thought they were on the Dean and that they would soon beat over it into deeper water . |
| 10 | He would just look at her with those piercing eyes and make her feel as vulnerable as she was beginning to realise she was . |
| 11 | No one could ever take that away from her , and she would always think of him with special affection . |
| 12 | You must always think of him in those terms , to get the flavour of Calvinistic humbug that ruled his life , and therefore everyone around him . ’ |
| 13 | The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable , though some more traditional grammarians would probably still disapprove of it as incorrect English . |
| 14 | Do n't you ever speak to me like that again , I have n't , I rang , no , no , I the landlord either , I waited until the next morning . |
| 15 | do n't you ever speak to me like that again , and do n't ever push me again , I said balls you old cunt . |
| 16 | How could he possibly look at her like that after the beauty they 'd just shared together ? |
| 17 | And if we get it right first time , we 'll have a satisfied client who will hopefully return to us for more work . |
| 18 | Yeah , but I did n't really think about it like that . |
| 19 | Will you really stay with me for all time , be my wife ? ’ |
| 20 | She [ mother ] did n't really know about it until one day the doctor came here and … she said … |
| 21 | Could my fondness have kept you steady I should not now appear before you in this solemn manner . |
| 22 | Of course I do n't really believe in it at all . ’ |
| 23 | He did n't really care for me at all : it was my money he was interested in . |
| 24 | She did n't really care about him at all , she just wanted his money . ’ |
| 25 | Everybody 's completely different and there 's such a tendency not to study people really and to simply think of them as all exactly the same , ‘ You 're 75 and you 're old and you 've got to put up with that . |
| 26 | He would simply look at her with that hard mask and feel nothing . |
| 27 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
| 28 | Do n't even talk to me about that ! |
| 29 | Michelle has n't done it frequently but i you know I would never even talk to me like that Sarah the little erm madam that she is , just like Kerry , which they are ! |
| 30 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |