Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope he will eventually dip back into that area . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , would you rather stay here in this prison ? |
| 3 | I 'd rather hang about with some tasty birds like those ones in Bananarama . |
| 4 | I 'd rather hang about with some tasty birds like those ones in Bananarama . |
| 5 | If I can only think back to that precise moment , and recover all the necessary ambient data , I 'll be able to figure it out for myself . |
| 6 | musicians can only count up to four . |
| 7 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 8 | Mr Haraoka predicts that Japanese managers will henceforth act more like Western managers , putting profits before their firms ' market share . |
| 9 | There are a number of international fixed interest unit trusts available , although they do not necessarily specialise entirely in European bonds . |
| 10 | Okay that 's , you 'd better hang on to that one and I 'll |
| 11 | We could only carry on like this for so long , and it all depended on how well we could sleep during the day . |
| 12 | Whilst humans could eat meat , they could only do so after careful selection and preparation of the animal ( Lev . |
| 13 | The total number of people living below the poverty line ( $370 per year ) in the ‘ developing ’ world will only decline slightly from present levels ( 1,125 million ) to about 825 millions by 2000 . |
| 14 | He replaced the receiver and said , ‘ You 'd better do enough for four . ’ |
| 15 | We can only collect up to 2 sacks each week from your house . |
| 16 | Her husband and colleague Dr E.A. Maury writes , ‘ She continues to show the way for those who have been willing to recognise her and will long do so for those who seek a new orientation for their moral and physical well-being ’ . |
| 17 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 18 | And so , it does n't look good if I do n't bring the information in so I 'd better hurry up with that . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd better hurry up with those exercises . ’ |
| 20 | You two girls had better keep away from that part of the world while they 're about . |
| 21 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 22 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 23 | HI-FLI and AFLI are almost the same , the only difference is that they use high-resolution , and can therefore only use up to three different colours ( rather than one ) within a char . |
| 24 | Eg White is down at Man City , Rocky at leeds ) You may only spend up to 20 Million quid . |
| 25 | Because we believe in stable democratic government supported by a majority of the British people , we shall not only campaign wholeheartedly for fair votes in the coming weeks , we also make a pledge for the period after the election . |
| 26 | That 's why we 'd better move on without any delay . ’ |
| 27 | Both give us the sense of oppression and lack of freedom ; if you are confined to a region , you can only move around in that region . |
| 28 | So you know it , it , it 's just , they will actually , the interesting bit is that they 'll only move back to that equilibrium point as you fall down towards them . |
| 29 | The new statutory definition would naturally draw quintessentially upon existing case law and also current aspirations and modern requirements , expressed in general principles , in terms of broad classes . |
| 30 | Luke stayed away for two weeks , during which time Maria had convinced herself that she was unlikely ever to see him again without actively seeking him out , so she could only stare incredulously for several seconds when she opened her apartment door in response to the bell 's summons early on a Friday evening and found him standing there . |