Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
2 | She does n't like talking about dying or anything like that , so may I talk to you ? ’ |
3 | So may I call upon Chris , the Honorary Treasurer to move the adoption of the accounts . |
4 | Not only must they care for distressed and disturbed young people , but they must do so under a cloud . |
5 | This means that not only must I refrain from doing a person bodily harm , but I must also refrain from bearing him any ill-will which might cause him mental suffering . |
6 | Not only must she cope with Cherie 's distressing withdrawal symptoms , she also needs eyes in the back of her head to curb a two-year-old 's natural mischief . |
7 | So should you look for this too in the youth of their killer ? |
8 | erm , first twelve weeks pregnant so should I mark at the bottom when she types . |
9 | How long should they abstain from sexual relations ? |
10 | And how frequently and how long should you exercise for optimum effect ? |
11 | How long should you spend on that problem alone — and when do you turn to fellow students to share ideas on possible solutions ? |
12 | so could you differentiate minus K X the coefficient is not three this time it 's minus K . |
13 | PS Has anyone still got the torygraph listings for their FFL , if so could you please post them to me . |
14 | PS Has anyone still got the torygraph listings for their FFL , if so could you please post them to me . |
15 | And we 'll try How long would we go in how far in one hour ? |
16 | And how long would we go in the last half hour ? |
17 | My full interview seemed to go reasonably smoothly so at the end of it I asked how long would it take for my money to come through . |
18 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
19 | How long would it take for selection to specify 10 8 base pairs ? |
20 | But how long would it take for the army , the S A S or whatever to go in and erm clean up the situation as it were ? |
21 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) : ‘ How long would you continue to be happy to simply do what you 're doing now , before you wanted a new challenge ? ’ |
22 | How 's the , and what sort of time would you spend , how long would you spend at Sunday School ? |
23 | Not only would they point to economic forces which limit those choices but they would also point out that the resultant individual choices lead to an impoverishment of products , to the Sun and not the Independent , to Sunday Sport and not News-on-Sunday . |
24 | So would he call in extra help to make the coffin ? |
25 | So would you like to just read what you 've written there so that , because I do n't think everyone can see , and I think this is |
26 | I 've no more patients until after lunch , so shall we go into the house ? ’ |
27 | So shall I keep from there and just do the ninety there ? |
28 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
29 | The Elizabethan nobleman who defended the episcopate because , " As they shoot at bishops now , so will they do at the nobility also , if they be suffered " , was not wide of his mark . |
30 | Are there other pushing agencies available , and if so will they push in the same direction ? |