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Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I li , I li , you can only make it this time of year .
2	For all these reasons , the Bosnian government does not much want its own capital to become a safe haven .
3	Better give him some money .
4	they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate .
5	This is one of the main reasons for the statement that an engineer can only do his own job well if he understands those of the other functions in his company .
6	We had better torment our own man next . ’
7	He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’
8	Well I was , there 's nothing to say they 've got to all stick together they can all do their own thing ca n't they ?
9	Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’
10	A special amendment stipulated that Macedonia would henceforth regulate its own balance of payments .
11	Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme .
12	A divorced woman can only use her former husband 's contribution record to establish her right to the basic pension and only provided she contributes in her own right as soon as the marriage ends and she does not remarry ( unless she is divorced over the age of 60 ) .
13	if it was a machine and you can only use your own pin number you see to do everything
14	Later we find Pemberton speculating about his future role with respect to " his little charge " , but at that stage we can only guess what this role will be .
15	We can only hear our own voice as it sounds to us when we speak .
16	At this rate she would have an accident , and she 'd only have her own stubbornness to blame for it .
17	She would only take her own daughter home .
18	So I mean it 's seventy miles so it should only take us another hour .
19	It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design .
20	I ca n't think why you have to constantly provoke me this way . ’
21	She concludes that an individual ‘ can only protect his own patterning from the invasion of others by a kind of wild jay-walking among the traffic , trying not to get run over ’ ( 614 ) .
22	Now I , I think that , you know , if Mr 's got any complaints about that , and he says that that is n't privileged , well I think he can only blame his own administration as well as anybody else 's .
23	He 'd obviously put his own glass down , because he halted her by grabbing her shoulders and bringing her to a halt .
24	well in the sense that they can all adopt their own way of joining words together
25	I 'd better get you some help . ’
26	You 'll naturally find your own level — whether it 's getting into the growing competition circuit or sticking to a local reservoir .
27	The committee 's first leaflet , We Must Win , declared : ‘ We must set out ideals and objectives in clear terms and we must so order our own mode of life and social system that men may know that we offer a happiness , freedom and prosperity which can never flourish under Hitler 's totalitarianism .
28	In fact , we would rather do it that way .
29	Parents who own a cassette player can easily make their own tape — just record the vacuum cleaner or hair dryer for about five minutes .
30	You can easily make your own coffee table and improvise on dining and side tables ( see improvise with flair , page 70 ) until you can afford better , but generous storage and some large healthy plants will make all the difference between a comfortable , relaxing room and a stiff , conventional one .