Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I 'd rather hang out with U2 ! ’ |
| 2 | Would n't you far rather hang out with Kylie than Bono ? |
| 3 | He had better catch up on Elinor 's latest batch of instructions . |
| 4 | Although he had no doubts about the Girls ' standard of work he would only take up on Smith 's offer if his organization was efficient . |
| 5 | And as for now , you 'd better go back with Fiona . |
| 6 | I 'd better go down to Episkopi . |
| 7 | Sir Robin Day searched a long memory for some event remotely comparable , and could only come up with Edwina 's famous threat to handcuff herself to the rostrum until hanging was brought back . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd better get on to Chiguana , ’ Mother said , coming up to me , panting . |
| 9 | Or should I perhaps sit down in Salzburg with the empty hope of some better fortune , let Wolfgang grow up , and allow myself and my children to be made fools of until I reach the age which prevents me from travelling and until he attains the age and physical appearance which no longer attract admiration for his merits ? |
| 10 | Erm we 're coming in on Sunday to see Norma so I might pop in pop in on Sunday afternoon . |
| 11 | You better fly back via Canada and go in on your Leavy ID . ’ |
| 12 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |
| 13 | In other words , technology does not make up for Europe 's high labour costs . |
| 14 | If Gibbs does not finally catch up with Horan and Little , any talk of a resurgence in Welsh fortunes will have to be put on ice . |
| 15 | We shall shortly tie up at Le Havre and you may go ashore independently . |
| 16 | On the other hand it would save us driving 30-odd extra kilometres in the rain , and anyway I said if we get there and there is n't a ferry for hours we can just carry on to Calais . |
| 17 | She did not look back at Ursula or down into the valley , but trained her eyes forward , fixing them on the interior of the Mercedes and the dark shape of its occupant as , with every step , clarity threatened to break upon her vision . |
| 18 | It did not look back at Alice , but said , ‘ One side will make you taller , and the other side will make you shorter . ’ |
| 19 | Now it is worried that , despite the reality of the single market , the flow will slacken if the country does not sign up for Maastricht . |
| 20 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 21 | An estate worker at the family seat said : ‘ The princess had decided she will not move out of Althorp . |
| 22 | It was because of these expectations about planning that members of the RTO felt they could comfortably cut down on DHA estimates of the revenue required for community services . |
| 23 | For the same reasons we must regret that Posidonius did not try out on Rome that ethnographical style which makes his Celts live for ever — a model to the French nation for any past and future extravagance . |
| 24 | Mikkelborg 's composition probably would not stand up without Davis , but then it was not designed to . |
| 25 | ‘ If only she would not go on about Cambridge so , ’ Miss Waters regretted . |
| 26 | Dermot joined me at Magdalen for my fourth year at Oxford ; Roddy did not go up to Oxford until the year after I had left . |
| 27 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 28 | Alistair did not go up to Leeds for the weekend . |
| 29 | Baltaci , noting the conflict between the fact that the medrese had apparently already been founded by 870 and the fact that Mecdi says that Molla Husrev did not go off to Bursa to found the medrese until 877 , suggests that the was written in anticipation of the actual building of the medrese . |
| 30 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |