Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather pack up here altogether and take a job as an assistant again . |
| 2 | I shall therefore look more closely at their teachings , partly because of the ecumenical value of an awareness of their doctrine , but mainly because we can thereby focus much more clearly upon what religions mean by ‘ God ’ . |
| 3 | At the moment , however , as she stood outside the door she had intended trying before , one trembling hand hesitating over the latch , Isabel could only think as far ahead as the next few minutes . |
| 4 | Er er er you know if there was a bad storm somebody would oh you better stay here today too again and he might be there three or four days . |
| 5 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 6 | Er if you want to take er use of that facility then if you have n't done so you 'd better do so fairly quickly . |
| 7 | It is now being restored again , one can only hope not too thoroughly , given its overpowering simplicity . |
| 8 | It is also possible to use festoon or ruched blinds at this type of window , but they would only draw up satisfactorily as far as the level at the bottom of the arch . |
| 9 | When the handicap player copies the picture and ‘ freezes ’ his movement , he might as well only swing back as far as that . |
| 10 | In these conditions , the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far : in a perfect paradigm , Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson — for ‘ Relax ’ — and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device — this time , nuclear war became available for ‘ Two Tribes ’ . |
| 11 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 12 | To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers . |
| 13 | Better get up early then . |
| 14 | You and Bobby better get back home straight away . ’ |
| 15 | I thought that it was probably some stupid village prank , but that I 'd better get in as soon as possible in case something odd was happening . |
| 16 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 17 | The season ticket agreement John Horscroft and Pat Shilland hope climbers will avidly welcome ever more firmly establishes that climbers should be asked to pay for their climbing . |
| 18 | In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data . |
| 19 | No , I really could not stay there any longer . |
| 20 | ‘ You did not stay there very long . ’ |
| 21 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 22 | Before we make any radical changes such as doing away with jury trials , should we not think very carefully indeed ? |
| 23 | ‘ They told me that as long as I did not rush back too quickly , I should have another four or five years . |
| 24 | However , you might quite easily eat slightly too much ( an intake amounting to 500 calories ) each day . |
| 25 | Right let me just explain then just just for the sake of completeness . |
| 26 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
| 27 | It grows best in reasonably fertile soil which does not dry out too readily . |
| 28 | ‘ Let's not jump too far ahead , ’ she said in a voice that was not quite steady . |
| 29 | So I 'd better not hang around here much longer . |
| 30 | Realizing the extent of the betrayal , it was clear to both of them that they could not hang around so close to the target area hoping for survivors . |