Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it . |
| 2 | Ooh I think I 'd better go lock up my garage before it gets too dark . |
| 3 | We 'd better say goodbye to Shrub . |
| 4 | ‘ He is n't our dog , but he lives next door to us , ’ she explained , ‘ so I suppose I 'd better take charge of him and see that he does n't do any more mischief . ’ |
| 5 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 6 | There was nothing that Ramsay could do now save return to the castle . |
| 7 | By this reasoning the things which they do not do well become part of the ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 8 | I mean I do it sort of a bit naturally , I mean if you , you know that what , the Delvine Hotel , I mean I sort of went in and I du n no sort of part way in I sort of said can I ask you if , you know , you 've had your other quotes and he sort of said yes we 're gon na sit down tonight and make our minds up |
| 9 | Alfa Romeo had a now-you-see-it , now-you-do n't glass roof on its 164-based Proteo coupe , but a production future here is altogether more promising . |
| 10 | It indicates that a real change did eventually take place after all , in so far as freedom of information and the inappropriateness of direct consultation without public mediation eventually became accepted as something which , at worst , had to be risked and something which , at best , formed an essential task of the construction of a Christian conscience in a Christian society . |
| 11 | Sighvat 's poem is known to be incomplete , but surviving verses do not mention the battle , and Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa says that Cnut opposed or threw back ( hnekDir ) the Swedes there , and describes him as their withstander ( prengvir ) , neither of which is resonant of overwhelming victory , Indeed , if Holy River was known only from the Chronicle entry one would think it a defeat , but Ottar is unlikely to have included a famous reverse in a list of Cnut 's achievements , and the royal title used in the 1027 Letter ( see below ) suggests that he did eventually claim suzerainty over some Swedes . |
| 12 | Although materials like clay , dough , aloplast and plasticine have quite different qualities , they do all provide opportunity for mathematical experiences such as moulding the same amount into many different forms , sharing , or comparing size , shape , pattern and texture . |
| 13 | Do all have freedom of conscience except the King ? " |
| 14 | In a letter to his lawyers cited by foreign correspondents in Beijing on Feb. 18 , Wang commented on other " leaders and initiators of this movement " who " dared not take responsibility for it and sought to defame it " . |
| 15 | I 'm not , we do normally have porridge for breakfast . |
| 16 | In these circumstances perhaps , they did not reinterpret history in each passing generation : experience of the relationship did not produce contestatory reformulations of knowledge . |
| 17 | What was worse , within minutes people would be walking all over her back-breaking work — it did not bear thinking of . |
| 18 | He came calling for Europe to work towards economic integration to ensure that the democratic hopes of people in the East did not give way to an opposite undertow of disillusion . |
| 19 | ‘ Alice ’ was a jolly girl and did not give way to deep depression as another ‘ Army ’ mother had done on finding that baby would not be a Major as her father was . |
| 20 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 21 | He tried , and felt himself falling into the tree , confused , unable to find a stance that did not give way into clutching twigs and flailing branches . |
| 22 | The appellant did not give evidence on his own behalf . |
| 23 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |
| 24 | The accused , if committed , is given copies of the depositions , but is not provided with copies of the statements taken by the police except when the Crown intends to call a witness who did not give evidence at the preliminary inquiry , in which case the Crown will serve the defence with a notice of intention and a copy of the witness 's statement . |
| 25 | The plaintiff who did not give evidence in the county court failed to recover the excess payments on the ground that they were made voluntarily . |
| 26 | Most of the expenditure was outside the dollar area , and did not give rise to immediate dollar payments . |
| 27 | The German press disappeared after Germany 's defeat in the First World War , while the missionary press , though of some historical interest , did not give rise to publications of any major importance . |
| 28 | But they did not give rise to new grouping systems within or between schools . |
| 29 | On an appeal by the plaintiff the Court of Appeal held ( dismissing the appeal ) that in so far as the rules of the club provided that two of its officers were to be responsible in law for the conduct of the club then ( in the absence of an express provision that the officers were responsible for the condition of the club premises ) the rules did not give rise to a duty of care towards individual members to maintain the club premises in a reasonable state of safety and repair . |
| 30 | My noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , has expressed the opinion that these letters , on their true construction , did not give rise to any such implied agreement . |