Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's too late to do much about it except to make sure you always lock up your personal computer . ’ |
| 2 | The meeting blamed the ANC for the violence in Natal , calling on it to abandon the so-called " armed struggle " ; furthermore , it urged the ANC deputy president , Nelson Mandela " to accept [ Buthelezi 's ] repeated invitation to sit down with him and to talk peace " . |
| 3 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 4 | Charlie Rogers and , later , his son , Guy , were very good to us , allowing us to treat their estate as our own , to ride all over it and to wander where we would with our dogs . |
| 5 | " Oui , " said Clara , thinking it not worth her while to draw the distinction . |
| 6 | She did not regain consciousness at any point ; it was almost , he thought bitterly , as if it were not worth her while to say goodbye to him . |
| 7 | Clara , when the idea was broached , declared instantly that it was not worth her while to ask her mother 's permission , whereupon the school embarrassingly said that if it were finance that were in question , then help might be forthcoming . |
| 8 | The question in the last sentence can not be answered , of course ; it is imponderable and we can go no further with it than to agree that it is useful to expose such uncertainties now and then . |
| 9 | Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again . |
| 10 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |
| 11 | During a jazzy quartet for the women , the company 's shambling clown is dangerously over-excited by one dancer 's leggy prowess , attempting to nuzzle up against her or to initiate a wildly mismatched pas de deux . |
| 12 | I believe in tough regulations , not knee-jerk reactions to public opinion — but the industry should be allowed to gear up to them and to plan five or 10 years ahead . |
| 13 | The contents were simple ; so simple that the letter seemed to look up at me and to say , ‘ I am in code , you know . |
| 14 | Like the first letter from Mrs Girdlestone it was short and simple , and like that letter ( but now the feeling was stronger ) it seemed to look up at me and to say , ‘ I am in code , you know . |
| 15 | He must know the local language sufficiently well to follow what is going on round him and to record it with accuracy and subtlety . |
| 16 | For example , a disabled plaintiff may require a motor car equipped with special devices to enable him to get in and out of it or to control it on the road . |
| 17 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 18 | I must choose to give it all back to you and to feel the happy liberation of unpossessiveness . |
| 19 | It is far better to think through the principles in advance and to act consistently with them than to improvise . |
| 20 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 21 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |