Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 2 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 3 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 4 | He had less than a tenth of the jigsaw puzzle pieces , but even the fragments of a picture he was able to put together made him ache for Anne . |
| 5 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 6 | ‘ William can be as stubborn as the devil when he chooses , and the sight of a soldier will only make him dig in his heels further . |
| 7 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 8 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 9 | ‘ Only make it sound as if you really believe it this time . ’ |
| 10 | So make it compete with outsiders . |
| 11 | ‘ Ireland 's vastly-improved performances obviously helped me get on stand-by for this tour . ’ |
| 12 | Use a sunscreen with a SPF greater than 10 from 6 months onwards , and then only let them stay in the sun for short periods . |
| 13 | So let me turn to an issue , less Earth shattering , but no less vexatious — the keeping of mink in Shetland . |
| 14 | Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week . |
| 15 | So let me begin by making some impressionistic guesses about the views women do in fact currently hold on morality . |
| 16 | So let him talk for himself if he had anything to say . |
| 17 | So let us talk about that old ship . ’ |
| 18 | So let us start with present-day society and compare it with the situation twenty years or so ago , and then compare that generation with its predecessor . |
| 19 | So let us start with them . |
| 20 | So let us drink to the long cool blonde |
| 21 | So let us think of that . ’ |
| 22 | So let us return to what happens when money supply rises . |
| 23 | ‘ So let us come to Kemp himself . |
| 24 | So let us turn to two arguments challenging the validity of the idea in a way which makes even approximation to complete neutrality a chimerical notion . |
| 25 | So let us turn to the main part of Culver 's book , and see whether his hopes are substantiated . |
| 26 | So let us turn from the obstacles to applying in practice the theoretical truism in the first proposition of the Plowden Committee — that ‘ there may now well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ — and consider the second proposition — that there may now well be ‘ inadequate ones for others ’ . |
| 27 | So let us look at an English case which exemplifies some of the practical problems confronting the theorists of sustainable development : Twyford Down ( near Winchester ) and the route of the M3 motorway in March 1990 . |
| 28 | So let us look at what pornography means to us . |
| 29 | There is obviously a major point of policy involved in this matter , so let us look at the organisation and training of these people who play such an important part in the safety of the travelling public . |
| 30 | So let us look at what factors appear to affect the performance of individuals in their jobs . |