Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why should you be willing to let so gross an injury pass ? |
| 2 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 3 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 4 | The fact that she was free did n't alter Fen 's situation . |
| 5 | ‘ The English did n't seem to know right what they were doing . |
| 6 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 7 | The English did not come . |
| 8 | The English do n't talk about things , they make an atmosphere . |
| 9 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 10 | I wanted to write books about psychiatry and the English do n't like that . |
| 11 | All I wanted to say was when you speak of ‘ collaborators ’ , you English do n't know what you are talking about . ’ |
| 12 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |
| 13 | If the English do not like children , it is because they think they ought to behave properly , responsibly and quietly in their presence and can never riot or have a good time when they 're around . |
| 14 | Perhaps the English do not know what an immense treasure they possess in having maintained the choral tradition in colleges and churches , since it provides an unsurpassable musical training , an important number of truly fine choirs , and , finally , the possibility to experience ( and for the listener , to enjoy ) repertories that the long-suffering Spanish enthusiast scarcely knows since they are not performed [ in Spain ] . |
| 15 | The English do so love gardens ! |
| 16 | a little bit else about making it interesting do n't worry about yawning in my courses , at least it shows you 're still alive . |
| 17 | The terms masculine and feminine do not refer to ‘ essences ’ , definite , unchanging qualities which exist independently . |
| 18 | With budgets of around £50,000 , the preference was for gentle tales with a non-urban setting such as The Brave Do n't Cry ( 1952 ) , about a Scottish mining disaster ; Conflict of Wings ( 1953 , Fuss Over Feathers in US ) , in which East Anglian villagers fight for the cause of bird sanctuaries against the needs of the RAF ; Judgement Deferred ( 1951 ) and Brandy for the Parson ( 1951 ) , both of which are smuggling stories . |
| 19 | If the question is reasonably clear do not wander outside it . |
| 20 | Accounting for the flop of his latest film , ‘ Last Images of the Shipwreck ’ , on the home market , an Argentine director said simply : ‘ The shipwrecked do n't want to see the shipwreck . ’ |
| 21 | Some of the local faithful do n't rule out a return — ‘ when three-day matches come back and there is a more fruitful relationship between the county and the owner of the ground ’ . |
| 22 | Windy do n't like the Hoover . |
| 23 | The British did not fare so well . |
| 24 | The British did not want to act themselves if they could avoid it . |
| 25 | The British did not respond , partly because of their current involvement in the defence of Kuwait against an Iraqi threat . |
| 26 | But by 1890 the competition imposed on the world by Britain and its nearest rivals in north-western Europe had returned a hundredfold , and there no longer seemed a possibility of escape : if the British did not colonize , others would , and at British expense . |
| 27 | The British did not help themselves by continuing to try to make more precise and explicit in the relationship what — at best — certain American policy-makers were prepared to concede only in private . |
| 28 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 29 | Tolstoy 's attempt to explain why the British did not see the massacre , by suggesting that there was a hill in the way , is therefore superfluous . |
| 30 | He was such a two-faced little man that finding these hysterically funny did n't feel wrong . |