Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 2 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 3 | Nationally Sir Matt Busby would probably qualify especially since Bob Paisley 's retirement from the Liverpool board and our learned friend knows of two 44-year men at Ross County , a team he seems to know well . |
| 4 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 5 | Do we know exactly when Anne is leaving ? |
| 6 | We do not know exactly when Julian was immured . |
| 7 | ‘ But of course we 'll know more when Professor Bearden has had a look . ’ |
| 8 | In fairness to this young and skilful Victorians side they just did n't count yesterday as Randalstown were a class apart . |
| 9 | The Wall Street Journal figures current management is n't strong enough to meet the mounting crisis but does n't know yet whether Akers is loosing the support of his board . |
| 10 | The mistakes would matter less if China had good intentions , which it does not . |
| 11 | Of course , in Switzerland they can not do so because Switzerland is organised in cantons , and the canton of Ticino , where Lugano is , can not afford to indemnify the whole collection . |
| 12 | But you know the situation is it 's like Mum should not expect just because Claire and Steve go away that it 's immediate pack your bag it 's gon na co |
| 13 | Clearly results must improve quickly if Darlington are to preserve the status they attained with such distinction under the leadership of former manager Brian Little . |
| 14 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |
| 15 | He could only watch helplessly as Paula was hurled headfirst into the canoe floating nearby . |
| 16 | ‘ But I do feel strongly that John Major can take loyalty too far and his friends may prove to be a millstone or albatross around his neck . ’ |
| 17 | Abu Jaber said that " the Palestinian people must be allowed to exercise their right of self-determination in their ancestral homeland " and added : " Let me speak plainly that Jordan has never been Palestine and will not be so . " |
| 18 | The fact was that Churchill and Eden were not of like minds and did not associate closely until Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 . |
| 19 | Humber did not speak again until Lewis left us . |
| 20 | We must assume either that Warnie 's memory exaggerated the virulence of her hostility to Jack 's conversion , or that there was some particular thing about it which affected her more than anyone else . |
| 21 | By the end of the week , two of our first-year novitiates could ski faster than I. My son and his friend Julien duelled nonchalantly with ski-poles as they bombed downhill . |
| 22 | They may well crack altogether if Blackburn could win 3 or 4 games on the trot . |
| 23 | With the certainty of the newly converted , they could see only that Pantisocracy offered an escape from their increasingly unsatisfactory and unhappy lives , and from a country whose politics they deplored . |
| 24 | This plan will work only if Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB act fast to compensate the retail trade for their losses and obsolete stock . |
| 25 | At worst , the Americans ' attitude has suggested — at least in Ukrainian eyes — that they would not really mind much if Russia got its way . |
| 26 | It is unfortunate , therefore , that doubts about the extent to which its character has changed should occur just as Germany has chosen to abandon one of its strongest symbols of guilt , its constitutional right to asylum . |
| 27 | In his acceptance speech he made three predictions : ‘ I believe you will see tonight that Britain will have returned strongly to three-party politics again . |
| 28 | I saw Erin run past and Amanda . |
| 29 | And Woodie could see now that Maurice was in there as well . |
| 30 | We can see then that Irenaeus 's idea was very optimistic . |