Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't cook , she does n't especially want to learn to cook , and I have only the sketchiest notion of British cooking . |
| 2 | Indeed , the Shahs failure to so do had caused his downfall . |
| 3 | And yet how could a man so beset fail to hold it against him ? |
| 4 | Although the Commission is a statutory body with a wide remit to promote the interests of crofters , it is so tightly bound by the rule of ‘ ultra vires ’ and treasury control , that it could not devote a minuscule sum to an experiment the results of which were endorsed by the Chief Inspector of Schools for the North and Highland Division , who wrote ‘ I should very much like to see continued the special educational merits of the scheme , challenge without competition , linkage of school and community in common effort , availability of expert advice to schools as they link theory with practice , financial assistance for bigger Projects , commitments which continue ’ . |
| 5 | The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me . |
| 6 | Daisy would so like to have got tarted up , but at least her hair was newly washed that morning and her teeth were clean . |
| 7 | We 'd obviously like to try to grab them , but I take your point . |
| 8 | To a person more interested in the advance of science he might perhaps have tried to explain what he was after , but with Lucy he perceived that this would not be a success . |
| 9 | Penelope Huntley , who would very much have liked to have gone on with the discussion , found herself swept out of the office , and walked slowly down the road , flushed with a mixture of disappointment and excitement . |
| 10 | Fabia would very much have liked to know what indeed it was that was happening to him , but , her heart pounding , it was a question that she was afraid to ask in case the answer was another knock-down . |
| 11 | ‘ Anna , ’ said Mr Mulgrove with an effort ( he would so much have preferred to call her Mrs Bouverie ) , ‘ this is your supervisor . ’ |
| 12 | However , the real key to an encouraging performance at the lineout by the home team was surely that , given the choice , England would much have preferred to play under the old lineout laws , Wales under the new . |
| 13 | Those Green voters will not have elected their own MP : they will merely have helped to elect one more Conservative MP . |
| 14 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 15 | Rigid adherence to the letter of their instructions by commissioners can only have served to obscure important aspects of the structure of landholding . |
| 16 | Sellers , dressed in brilliant colours , outshone the purchasers , and , instead of welcoming them , either ignored them or were so rude that they could only have hoped to drive them away . |
| 17 | It is clear that this " mood " could only have come to dominate the study of English by deflecting the major challenges to its status as a " real discipline " . |
| 18 | Both Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth accept that Mr. Wickham would only have agreed to marry for £10,000 which was seen as a vast amount of money in those days . |
| 19 | How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ? |
| 20 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 21 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 22 | Frankly , I 'd only have needed to brush my hand against my trouser zip before security guards would have been called for . |
| 23 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 24 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 25 | Then he asks the community , because although they might not all have seemed to have been involved there 's been a lot of people praying for you and |
| 26 | The court was driven to conclude that the jury would not necessarily have convicted had it been correctly directed . |
| 27 | I think we are all agreed that we should aim at keeping the moratorium in place , at least until the year 2000 — I wo n't go into the reasons for that choice — and that meanwhile we do n't necessarily have to try to resolve the ideological problems . |
| 28 | Mountain bikes do n't have guards because if you 're using them on wet and muddy terrain you do n't want to constantly have to stop to unclog the wheels . |
| 29 | I can only afford to go to see him twice a week . |
| 30 | Right let's let's all get lined get lined up again ready to move . |