Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He would n't thieve he would n't he was too timid to do anything like that . |
| 32 | ‘ It 's good to see anyone in such Godforsaken weather . |
| 33 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 34 | ‘ I think it was good to meet lots of different people but on the other hand , I have never really felt settled or had lifelong friends like most people , ’ he says . |
| 35 | They begin to assume that their ageing parents are never satisfied , and may eventually conclude that it might be better to do nothing at all for them . |
| 36 | The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning . |
| 37 | By this time it is already too late to do anything about Mavic Chen , as the three are accidentally transported to the world of Mira by cellular projection . |
| 38 | If homo sapiens is unequivocally demarcated from the rest of the animal kingdom by the language barrier then it would seem reasonable to accord something like honorary status to those existing in its image , as it were , but otherwise enfeebled through age or retardation . |
| 39 | They 're good to watch something like this . |
| 40 | I must say it 's , it must be good to have somebody like that er |
| 41 | It was very good to have someone like that — someone who keeps pushing you and telling you that you can do it and not to be shy . ’ |
| 42 | There his family , like all those in the village , had been too poor to eat anything but black bread , and so bagels , baked with expensive white flour , were the rarest of luxuries . |
| 43 | So I I also think that you know I 'm , I 'm quite happy to see something like that maybe dealt with in a sense as a separate issue , because it 's |
| 44 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 45 | In the Hankses ' cottage , Tom rubbed the steam from the window and peered outside , able to see nothing but heavy snowflakes melting against the windows . |
| 46 | You would n't be able to write anything with any merit at all if you were constantly trying to portray certain groups in a favourable light . ’ |
| 47 | Should the weather be unkind , or fish reluctant to rise , then I am sure that I will be able to find plenty of other sea-borne activities to keep me fully occupied ; and , hopefully , merrily amused . |
| 48 | In many cases they are not able to remember anything at all about the earlier incidents and so all they have are those inner feelings with nothing to counteract them . |
| 49 | McGiven said : ‘ I 'd like to think we 've improved since then , but on his day Le Tissier is virtually unplayable and able to create anything at any time . ’ |
| 50 | When information technology users are in doubt about what to buy , who to buy it from , and whether or not they can afford it , they are apt to buy nothing at all . |
| 51 | While this represents an important development in Parliament 's powers of scrutiny , non-departmental bodies account for only a small part of the work of these committees which are quite unable to exercise anything like detailed oversight . |
| 52 | Her mother described her as a dog waiting for the next command , and all she wanted to do was hold out her arms and say ‘ Come here ’ , but she was completely powerless to do anything at all . |
| 53 | If the parties had not agreed on nominating such authority , or if the nominated authority declines to appoint an arbitrator or is unable to nominate one within sixty days of its receipt of either party 's request to that effect , both parties may ask the Secretary-General of the Permanent Arbitration Court to nominate an appointing authority . |
| 54 | She said : ‘ I like to make people laugh and always wanted to be able to do something for elderly and lonely people . ’ |
| 55 | You could see his brain working I must be able to do something about this , he was thinking , but there was no rule against hair colour , only length . |
| 56 | But we might be able to do something by internal reshuffling at the clinic . |
| 57 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 58 | Since no one seems able to do anything with these people they wo n't mind what I get up to , tee-hee ! ’ |
| 59 | Which he may not be able to do anything for that week but it will ring a bell loud and clear the following weeks . |
| 60 | Or you 're likely not to be able to do anything at all . |