Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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31 you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit .
32 The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it .
33 The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body .
34 Therefore , if were incorrectly derived from an acoustic waveform that in fact corresponded to an intended production of thanks for sending me your letter , the syntactic/semantic component would not only have to reject all the improbable competitors such as thanks force ending knee your letter , but also to identify that the word knee has been incorrectly derived instead of me .
35 The SRU committee would obviously have to discuss such a suggestion . ’
36 One would only wish to receive this kind of evidence with caution , hesitating to draw stereotypical impressions of the children of engineers and actors , and impressions gathered some decades ago , aware as we are that social behaviour and social attitudes change with the passing of time .
37 This is going to be a year when we will all have to go that extra mile for children .
38 Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe .
39 You do not necessarily have to decide that .
40 I 'm saying that you know you , you should er perhaps try to establish some underlying principles to your policy .
41 It should only aim to record that which is necessary for accurate reporting of a pupil 's progress according to the agreed reporting format of the school as a whole .
42 The promptness with which the US rejected Iraq 's February 15 offer , widely seen in the Arab world as a genuine peace initiative , can only serve to confirm this view .
43 It suggests that the attempt to impose a neutral character on the liberal state and to purge its law of any substantive content can only serve to erode those moral and religious foundations which are essential for the survival of liberalism .
44 The passage of years will only serve to make these inadequate definitions , which can still be just about tolerated , completely unacceptable in the light of knowledge gained by then .
45 But Rome did not merely refuse to send any representative to Amsterdam .
46 we will all continue using that .
47 You 'd better start learning that Highway Code .
48 ‘ But we 've come to the conclusion that since not everybody 's ready for it , we 'd better start packaging some of our most popular strings both ways — individually in sixes , and collectively in one packet — and let players make up their own minds .
49 Think we better start doing more over it ?
50 ‘ Because if you do , you 'd better start undoing all these goddamned buttons while the fire 's still hot . ’
51 Go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . ’
52 And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views .
53 He did n't just eat to live that horse , he lived to eat , which was obvious when you saw how fat he was .
54 We shall soon grow to know each other better . ’
55 However , if your claim is successful , and damages are paid by the Defendants , we would normally expect to recover all or most of our costs and disbursements from them .
56 Where one would normally expect to find those details , there is the logo of the Sports Council , and the statement : ’ Additional copies of Relay available from Sports Council International Affairs Unit . ’
57 I 'll just finish reading this and then I 'll er go and do give me a smackerooney , look at that lovely face , a little angel , a little angel
58 The Soviet Union could soon choose to follow these precedents .
59 I can just remember seeing some shapeless mass of mummy of a whitish colour .
60 Marxism 's inability to deal with the political interventions of other oppositional groups has meant that its History can no longer claim to subsume all processes of change .
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