Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In addition to these , blend dare has also been found with the bare infinitive in a number of other categorizable contexts , all of which can also be shown to be somehow non-assertive : ( 59 ) I only wish I dared write to him .
2 Confidence in the feminine within allows us to let go of the outer image from time to time .
3 No no no no can I no no yes just let just let me pursue pursue the the thing the way I would like to at the moment .
4 Oh , I just hope she does get better next week .
5 Er , he may , he may be , you 'll have to , to ask him , but generally speaking he does have er
6 I 'm just saying it did jolly well .
7 Yeah he just said you did say I can have some more money , I said well yeah .
8 ‘ Laura never got involved in these sorts of negotiations , ’ he said ruefully , ‘ but if you ever asked her to help sort out a problem involving Bernard it was always ‘ my husband right or wrong ’ . ’
9 What criteria should any experiment we made try to meet to satisfy the claim that the process we were studying was a necessary , sufficient and possibly even specific aspect of the memory formation process ?
10 Like means you do like some .
11 That 's the team of management that I , together with one or two others , built up from scratch at the beginning of the Liberal Democrats , and we now in Stockport have a highly successful erm m As I say , tier of management for training , for campaigning , for policy development in Stockport , and as you probably know we do have a good record of winning local council seats .
12 ‘ My parents ’ hotel is very small ; they did n't really need me to help run it .
13 I really believed he did love this suede .
14 Erm , secondly , we will only be able to do that effectively and this is the point you were making about say , erm , school governors and so on , if people really feel they do have some genuine power , locally , it must be about enabling and empowering local groups to have power and take part within their community .
15 I s so I showed him this tin full , I says well look they do break do n't they ?
16 ‘ I should jolly well hope you do see it , ’ Lady Woodleigh snapped .
17 Like you go , even saying I did serve quite a bit faster than her , which I do like , you know she still should o i if the bar done seven fifty she should have , she should have done what two , three and a half ?
18 you can then make it do work for you ?
19 Only then did he dare look back over his shoulder .
20 It is not true I married for a red corduroy jacket belonging to my wife 's father ; but there is no denying he did pass it on to me , as a sort of dowry I believe .
21 The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine .
22 The new government advisory agency , Scottish Natural Heritage , recently invited me to help judge a painting competition for schools .
23 ‘ And he did n't actually say he did believe me , either .
  Next page