Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The counsellor should not therefore take up the first issue raised by the counsellees which seems satisfactorily to explain their situation . |
| 2 | Minton imparted a sense of urgency to his students , advising them : ‘ You must n't ever turn down a commission . |
| 3 | In other words , you should n't just hold down the chord shape and pick the notes out as they lie under your hand ; each double has its own fingering . |
| 4 | In fact she might even just dream up a few to even up the score a little . |
| 5 | She remembered saying that she might very well buy out the others and live in the property herself . |
| 6 | I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 7 | I 'm just frightened because I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 8 | He told Granada TV 's This Morning show : ‘ I 'm just frightened because , God , I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 9 | The moon was not yet up and in the darkness we could only just make out the rock face of the west bank above us , a cliff some thirty feet high . |
| 10 | We 'd only just put down the phone to them . |
| 11 | That was another thing which made Mahmoud uneasy , for modern and emancipated though he was , he could not completely shake off the attitudes and sexual constraints of the old , Islamic society . |
| 12 | She heard the sounds of the battle ; she could not even croak out a song to him , for her tongue clove to her palate as if , while her baby drank , she were dying of thirst . |
| 13 | He was watching her closely , and she could not quite make out the expression in his eyes . |
| 14 | The relationship between waiver and equitable estoppel is obvious , as Denning LJ pointed out in Charles Rickards Ltd v Oppenheim [ 1950 ] 1 KB 616 ( at p623 ) : If the defendant , as he did , led the plaintiffs to believe that he would not insist on the stipulation as to time , and that , if they carried out the work , he would accept it , and they did it , he could not afterwards set up the stipulation as to the time against them . |
| 15 | From where she was standing , she could just about make out the shape of Patrick 's cap as he hurried down the back lane . |
| 16 | Now that his eyes had adjusted to the light , Patrick could just about make out the vague shape of the young woman before him , her face a dim grey against the paler shape of her nightdress . |
| 17 | I could n't even bite off a sliver . ’ |
| 18 | Why was it , she wondered , that she could n't even summon up the rudiments of politeness with this man ? |
| 19 | He knew he had the tournament won , but he was so high he could n't even line up the putt . |
| 20 | Finally , it got to the point where he was driving me nuts , because I could n't even find out the reason he was screaming so . |
| 21 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 22 | You could n't just pick up the phone at any time you liked . |
| 23 | He could n't quite make out the face , but he was certain he did n't know the caller , which was unusual . |
| 24 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 25 | Citrine , who , despite his wrangles with Gaitskell , was keen that Labour should win , warned in the summer of 1951 that he could no longer hold back the Area Board chairmen from politically damaging attacks on the Government if the investment controls were not relaxed . |
| 26 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 27 | This meant that after thirty years had elapsed the original owner could no longer claim back the property , while the factual possessor could not be designated the proper owner . |
| 28 | When they waved to her , and held up little Enoch to see her better , she could no longer keep back the blinding tears . |
| 29 | I could never really work out the basis of his friendship with Steve and Paul They were pretty street-wise while he was just odd . |
| 30 | The pair were in the air together at the last , but Bonnie Artist stumbled on landing and could never quite peg back the leader who held on by threequarters of a length . |