Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blind person remarked : ‘ If someone said to me ‘ You 'd better not do this placement ’ then I 'd rather walk to Australia on my hands than admit that I could n't . ’ |
| 2 | My partner suggested perhaps we 'd better not do this again . |
| 3 | Dorothy decided she had better not laugh this time , though she wanted to , so she said cautiously : ‘ I do n't know , Hank . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd better not push this too far , ’ said Edward . |
| 5 | I 'd better not use this felt tip |
| 6 | I 'd better not use this felt tip |
| 7 | Perhaps we can only ever see this when we have been ‘ broken ’ by God , perhaps through failures or disasters that he has allowed us to experience . |
| 8 | The relative maturity of children at different ages can only partly explain this ambivalence in attitude and government policy about care and education outside the family . |
| 9 | He believed that they could so perfectly fit this classification that one of the functions of leys was for ritual or teaching purposes . |
| 10 | That Havvie could so lightly do this … |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd rather not continue this discussion anywhere . |
| 12 | Do let us know if you would rather not receive this information . |
| 13 | Many do not successfully complete this journey as anemones are often a limited resource on the reef and most of the fry are eaten by predators before they can reach protection . |
| 14 | The final year of the Occupation did not fundamentally alter this status . |
| 15 | Marx did not thereby characterise this as being primitive accumulation on the part of British capital , but rather as period of development of capital on the basis of the capitalist mode of production , even though this entailed the destruction of pre-capitalist forms . |
| 16 | ‘ We ’ , McLeish remembered from Francesca , did not necessarily mean this administration but must mean one of the same political persuasion . |
| 17 | Yet , of course , the introduction of some kind of proportional representation system would not necessarily solve this ‘ political arithmetic ’ problem , for policy priorities would then be influenced by the way negotiations between potential coalition parties developed . |
| 18 | Being with peers and friends does not necessarily solve this feeling of loneliness . |
| 19 | The fact that the tasks as used in Study 3 turned out not to be completely unrelated to risk does not necessarily compromise this result , it may simply reflect the fact that thinking about risk is an extremely natural thing to do in this type of situation . |
| 20 | Experience does not necessarily fill this gap as people learn very differently from experience . |
| 21 | Erm anyhow , this evening , I 'm proposing to just merely cover this particular area , particularly . |
| 22 | Not with a view to conciliating those readers who on principle object to sequels , but as a matter of fact , the Author wishes to say that he does not so regard this book . |
| 23 | Goering had boasted that no enemy 'plane would fly over the Reich and here they had shown that they could not only do this but could attack the capital itself . |
| 24 | The time difference is tiny — less than a thousandth of a second — but the brain can not only detect this difference but also use it to compute the position of the sound source . |
| 25 | A single fallen leaf can smother a wide area of seedlings and it is perhaps no surprise then to learn that it has such a large seed , which could not only penetrate this mass but have enough stores to supply a seedling as it grew up through it . |
| 26 | But Kubla Khan does not merely illustrate this creative power . |
| 27 | You should thus not attempt this diet : |
| 28 | He did not exactly believe this statement : to his mind Steve was not developing , he was already fully what he had it in him to be . |
| 29 | While he did not exactly oppose this suggestion , he added , somewhat enigmatically , that he believed Liza 's trouble was due to circumstances quite beyond her control and that she needed the help not so much of a specialist but a sympathetic friend personally acquainted with her predicament . |
| 30 | Whether this is a real practical difficulty depends on whether the desire to save face would not anyway have this effect of encouraging the same decision to be made again , even if there were no risk of a damages award . |