Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 21 We know you would never consider smuggling a wild orchid into your home country , but which of these considerations would most tempt you to break your resolve ? |
| 2 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 3 | She did so want him to kiss her . |
| 4 | I do so want you to learn , my dear , ’ and , turning away , she half whispered , ‘ There is so much pleasure , so much pleasure to be gained by the informed . ’ |
| 5 | This means AEA can not merely confine itself to research . |
| 6 | In order to draft effectively , and to make intelligent use of precedents , the drafter must not only know what to say but why it is necessary to say it , how to say it , and what will be the result of saying it differently . |
| 7 | we do n't necessarily need you to have had it experience |
| 8 | But they 've cut them well they done it again about a month ago no one could survive They 'll only do it to get the get the key |
| 9 | Er in relation to King Street er car park , there are there are complications in relation to er the usage of the car parking spaces erm and the health centre and on street car parking erm and we are going to do er further work in surveying the usage of those spaces and how we could perhaps better allocate them to ensure that there are erm spaces available for people who need to get to the surgery and the subcommittee will be reporting back to the council . |
| 10 | Then I 'd better do something to prevent you . ’ |
| 11 | Even those one would expect to have rejoiced at the religious revival which Lewis 's popularity heralded and to a certain degree inspired could only bring themselves to sneer . |
| 12 | and if lots of people wanted to study law , they 'd all bring them to like a lawyer , say |
| 13 | She liked her job , she needed her job , the building society with whom she had her mortgage would very much like her to keep her well-paying job — but she had no idea how she could go about keeping it if that swine in the new extension said , ‘ On your way ’ . |
| 14 | We would very much like you to join the steering group and I hope you will confirm your willingness to do so . |
| 15 | Yeah there 's the price it 's size it 's this product you know the reason we 're phone you because you 've been identified as by the estate agent or medical practice or school as being very suitable and they would very much like you to support this . |
| 16 | We 're holding an arm-wrestling and spinach-risotto evening at the Cock and Pullet in Poplar and we 'd very much like you to do a twenty-five minute cabaret and cut the first slice of a twelve-metre onion quiche , baked by MOLES , you know , Mothers of Optometrists Lesbians , Esperantists and Social Security Clerks . ’ |
| 17 | We 'd very much like you to feel free to ask any questions or comment er er on , on the er presentations during the course of the morning . |
| 18 | He said thoughtfully , ‘ I would very much like you to make a pair of boots for me . |
| 19 | I believe bus drivers already have radio communication ; could they perhaps use it to report the illegally parked vehicle and summon a towaway unit ? |
| 20 | You might perhaps like it to change : more active pursuits such as walking , golf , tennis , swimming , cycling ? |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll only use them to wound , guv . |
| 22 | Mobile users can only use it to make outgoing calls , and must be near one of the 8,000-plus Rabbit base stations dotted across the country . |
| 23 | I would so like her to find some relief . |
| 24 | Even if a firm has roubles in a Kazakh bank , it can not necessarily use them to pay a Russian supplier . |
| 25 | 664 of Ealdwulf ( in his seventeenth regnal year at the time of the council of Hatfield ( HE IV , 17 ) , son of Anna 's brother , Aethelric , brought to royal power a new branch of the royal family ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , but Ealdwulf 's Northumbrian connection — he was the son of a Deiran princess ( see above , p. 78 ) and in continuing contact with Northumbria ( HE 11 , 15 ) — did not necessarily enable him to exist independently of Wulfhere 's sphere of influence . |
| 26 | The move has been welcomed by Datarange , which says that the financial stability which its new parent will bring will better enable it to pursue its business strategy . |
| 27 | While Gould 's first impressions were not favourable , he was determined , as he wrote to Sir John Franklin , to keep an open mind : ‘ The heat and dust of Sydney is extremable neither does the presence of Drunkards which constantly present themselves in the streets add to the interest of this place , time and better acquaintance with the country will however perhaps enable me to speak better of it . ’ |
| 28 | If you are not happy with the way the program has arranged any of the increases or decreases , you can manually adjust them to suit your requirements . |
| 29 | It goes on to list some of the tips to be found in a book ( price £12.95 ) of the same title — techniques which will apparently enable you to become ‘ more popular , more confident , more successful and happier in life ’ . |
| 30 | the habits and practice of the French courts are different from our own , and … when the cross-examination of [ the ] witness is most material , and will alone enable me to judge of the effect of his examination-in-chief , I decline to delegate my discretion to any other tribunal . |