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 ?
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