Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years afterwards I was naturally very wary of any dog and , although I soon learnt not to run away , as this would only make them run after me , I never willingly approached them . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | But though you can do a different remix for each different section of the audience , in the end you can only do one show at a time . |
| 4 | as if he could suddenly feel her looking at him , he glanced directly up at her window . |
| 5 | With my confidence about as durable as a wet tissue , I thought I 'd better do whatever needed to be done with it well before he arrived , and then wash it off my fingers and anywhere else visible and smellable . |
| 6 | You can not access it at all , except as the directory file , with SYS$LIFESPAN ( the non-concealed logical ) — SYS$LIFESPAN : [ PMR ] is an illegal syntax , and SYS$LIFESPAN:PMR will only give you access to DUA0 : [ SOFTWARE_LIBRARY ] PMR.DIR , not to DUA0 : [ SOFTWARE_LIBRARY.PMR ] . |
| 7 | For , I think we 'd probably better keep you going for , how about six da hmm for five days , that 's actually quite a long course for this stuff cos it lasts an awful long time in the body . |
| 8 | We used to watch the game together and I 'd suddenly see him wince in pain . |
| 9 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 10 | One can only guess what became of the dogs of the town , for they were usually trained to guard their master 's property to the death . |
| 11 | ‘ So we can only hope he gets in touch with me ? |
| 12 | the habits and practice of the French courts are different from our own , and … when the cross-examination of [ the ] witness is most material , and will alone enable me to judge of the effect of his examination-in-chief , I decline to delegate my discretion to any other tribunal . |
| 13 | A horse which needs stretching down will benefit from a Chambon whereas a horse which is rather ignorant of the bit will only have himself to argue with in side-reins . |
| 14 | Speaking in Yemen 's capital , Sana'a , as the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , held talks in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , he warned that Israel 's prime minister , Yitzhak Rabin , whom Mr Christopher is scheduled to meet today , ‘ will only have himself to blame for the crazy escalation of terrorism against our Palestinian people ’ . |
| 15 | They also show that results do not necessarily have anything to do with socio-economic circumstances or anything of that kind . |
| 16 | Mr Wilson said : ‘ The most pleasing thing is that we attract people to activities here who do n't necessarily have anything to do with the Baptist church . ’ |
| 17 | He might be directly responsible for taking away her pleasure in singing — though that would surely be only a temporary aberration on her part — but she could only hold him to account for her loneliness if it was his company she was missing . |
| 18 | You 'd better let us look after you now , ’ or ‘ We 've talked it over , and we 've decided to offer you a home with us . ’ |
| 19 | We better get it cleared before this lot |
| 20 | You obviously harbour some resentment against your ex-boyfriend too , but telling him about the abortion now wo n't necessarily help you to cope with the guilt you are feeling . |
| 21 | But neither of these is fully regulated which means that teachers may perhaps find themselves working for less than fully professional organisations . |
| 22 | We said that this in no way lessens the grief , but it does perhaps help us prepare for the event . |
| 23 | you can only learn I think from your , from your experience and yet it 's something every body has to go through |
| 24 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 25 | Ruth could not think what to say to him . |
| 26 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 27 | For myself , I do not think we need to be quite so pessimistic . |
| 28 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 29 | You must not think him ridden with angst just because , for once , he 's agreed to discuss with us the things he normally ignores . |
| 30 | Do not think you sleep in the hand of God you sleep in the mouthpiece of a telephone |