Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wish now to say I declare the Exhibition open and to say how pleased I am to see so many old friends here today . |
| 2 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 3 | ‘ One thing I still find hard to take in is how hard my mother worked for all of us . |
| 4 | It was the biggest mistake of my life and one that I really try hard to forget . |
| 5 | And I I really want officially to thank Celia for what she 's done . |
| 6 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 7 | And I never want really to go beyond looking at them … . |
| 8 | We 've learned of those features of our life stories which potentially contribute negatively to conflict situations . |
| 9 | ‘ You only come here to crash out . ’ |
| 10 | There is a mass lobby of Parliament on December 1 , to try to bring home to those in power what is happening to the families who are forced to live in bed and breakfasts , and those who literally have nowhere to lay their heads . |
| 11 | Central is an important part of the ITV network made up of 16 companies throughout the country who all work together to make programmes , like Coronation Street from Granada and Emmerdale from Yorkshire for the network . |
| 12 | ‘ I think the teachers who just come here to teach are the worst , you know . |
| 13 | You already know enough to work out the answer for yourself . |
| 14 | It stood on a little round table in front of the muslin-curtained window , and the long green plush sofa against the opposite wall bore the imprint of the length of the girl 's body as though she habitually lay there to watch it . |
| 15 | Flying forwards is exactly the same as hovering in a wind except that you now have consciously to do things which you probably did automatically in the hover . |
| 16 | I should hate anyone to think that I am , ’ she said , looking around her at us all and smiling again , ‘ that I am in the business of catering exclusively for prostitutes , tarts working girls , slags bitches , cunts , whores , studs , pimps , rent boys , butches , nellies , queens , masseurs , escorts , one-night stands , ex-models , ex-policemen , ex-Armed Forces , ex-boxers , security guards , tennis instructors , so-called businessmen , tourists and those poor unfortunates who simply come here to pass the time and meanwhile do some shopping ; oh , no , let it never be said ! |
| 17 | ‘ Or have you simply come here to annoy me ? ’ |
| 18 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 19 | Well , I 'm in agreement with you , and I think most environmentalists are in agreement that sustained growth is the way forward , and they have to be sustainable for the economies of the people who actually live there to survive , and sustainable for the whole planet to survive . |
| 20 | I believe very firmly that we can accomplish so much more in our lives if we just pause occasionally to take stock of our plans and our aims . |
| 21 | we just get together to enjoy the videos |
| 22 | Although we have not yet found the exact form of all these laws , we already know enough to determine what happens in all but the most extreme situations . |
| 23 | ’ If the police say my vehicle is unroadworthy then I 'll accept that , but then we still need somewhere to live . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't think , though , that until we left home , we ever cost more to feed and clothe than that £7 handed over each week . |
| 25 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |
| 26 | Thanks to the excellent response — nearly a third of the University 's 65,000 alumni replied — we now know enough to build a framework on which the University can base its future plans for alumni relations . |
| 27 | Having considered the objections , we now turn briefly to outline the advantages of collecting relevant statistical information about the progress of the Christian Church in a locality or nation . |
| 28 | They desperately need somewhere to hide , and pursue Laverne with a gut craving . |
| 29 | The Bushmen have been pushed back from much richer regions into the most inhospitable areas of Africa by other more technologically advanced peoples with whose enmity they still have continually to reckon . |
| 30 | They now need only to beat Finland on 15 November to be sure of their place in Italy . |