Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can fool them once by realigning in the middle of the trading day , as Spain did recently . |
| 2 | ‘ Pray take my arm m'lady and I shall convey thee hence in the twinkling of an eye . ’ |
| 3 | They wo n't want me here with all this happening . |
| 4 | ‘ Look … what the hell do you want me here for , Cardiff ? |
| 5 | So you 've got me here , very clever , but for God 's sake what do you want me here for ? ’ |
| 6 | Because it said on the packet you 'll plant them immediately after buying and we do n't know when Aunty Gwen bought them and it might rain tomorrow as well , I think I ought to put them in while it 's fine , now |
| 7 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 8 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 9 | This is not as frightful as it may sound : with self-build projects the council inspectors are usually very helpful , although you should n't badger him/her relentlessly for advice , and employing reputable tradesmen should eliminate any problems with outside labour . |
| 10 | If so , would you explain them more in terms of : |
| 11 | ‘ The archbishop can not compensate me enough for slavery in Salzburg … |
| 12 | we take some of them part bake breads and some cheese and biscuits and a great big packet of cheese and , and you just you know , you can either just sit there , but the food , once you get down the food is so cheap you do n't want nothing else in the heat . |
| 13 | If your timing is right , Positive ideas of this kind may well give her hope and encouragement , but they should not be introduced too early in the grieving process , or she may regard them almost as an insult to the depth of her sorrow at a time when she is not yet ready to look to the future . |
| 14 | However , the success of the Inuit is based far more on dressing , housing and feeding themselves as well as possible , and avoiding risks that would expose them unduly to cold . |
| 15 | She expounded the Scriptures to her nuns , she will expound them now to her disciples . |
| 16 | Sometimes she would compare me unfavourably with her ideal daughter-in-law : ‘ So-and-so asks her husband 's mother for recipes . ’ |
| 17 | If you are to have one set of valuable notes , do n't lend them even to friends ! |
| 18 | Mrs , for her part , did n't want a culture-less idiot for progeny but someone she could talk to as an adult : i.e. , she did n't want someone too like his father . |
| 19 | The examples of ( 10 ) have interesting implications , but we shall restrict ourselves here to those aspects which bear on adjectival grammar ; we take them as confirming evidence that we are justified in following Bolinger and recognizing that certain adjectives qualify another property , qua property , and are not to be assigned , independently , to any entity present in or assumed by the structure of the sentence in which they appear . |
| 20 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 21 | Because the molluscs are such a large and varied group , with such an extensive fossil record , we shall consider them below in their various classes . |
| 22 | I shall consider them further in Chapter 2 . |
| 23 | The last two goals are the most important , and we shall consider them further in the following sections . |
| 24 | The issues in this famous case are extremely involved and we shall consider them further in Chapter III . |
| 25 | I wish briefly to deal with two other issues , but we shall explore them further in Committee . |
| 26 | MAURICE : ( from a distance ) : I hope you did n't buy them just for me . |
| 27 | Therefore , the majority of those who are to be made redundant will either have their own homes or will buy them shortly after . |
| 28 | ‘ I see you still do n't trust me alone with the Knudsen , ’ she commented acidly , as she complied with his instructions . |
| 29 | We could describe them partly in terms of stress ( by saying , for example , that strong syllables are stressed and weak syllables unstressed ) , but until we describe what ‘ stress ’ means such a description would not be very useful . |
| 30 | People do seem to find some goals more attractive than others and will pursue them sometimes with frenetic activity . |