Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would , therefore , be most grateful to hear from anyone who has any memories or anecdotes of the company pre-1959 , whether from customers , employees or other analysts of that era . |
| 2 | ‘ Look , Jenny , ’ said Sheila , ‘ we were all dead sorry to hear about your mother . |
| 3 | That would have exposed tax-dodgers and forced the suspiciously rich to account for their wealth . |
| 4 | If any reader had found any items relating to the Bristol and Gloucestershire volunteers of any period , I should be most interested to hear from them , and would give what advice I could . |
| 5 | It is notoriously difficult to research its prevalence , not least because older people and carers are rarely willing to talk about it . |
| 6 | She found it most distasteful to think of him owing money to the bingo-playing woman in the basement . |
| 7 | Congress , I think it 's only right to draw to your attention that in item five B USDAW that at the last USDAW Conference there was a motion passed saying that there should be recognition for the independent trade union within USDAW which is ourselves , G M B Apex . |
| 8 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 9 | ‘ So sorry to hear about your accident . |
| 10 | I double-checked this with the staff who assured me if would be all right to use on my windows . |
| 11 | Then I twisted the film and note together into a paper towel and went out to try to find Bill Baudelaire , reckoning it might be all right to speak to him casually down on ground level since Filmer was n't there to see . |
| 12 | As a piece this was undoubtedly a composed solo , and although on the record quite a few of the phrases were ‘ dropped in ’ , it is obviously possible to play through it in one pass . |
| 13 | It is meaningless therefore to ask whether people are less willing to look after their elderly relatives than in the past , when this particular dimension of family obligation was simply not put to the test for most people in previous generations . |
| 14 | But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up . |
| 15 | I would be especially interested to hear from anyone who has experience of setting up provision for such people . |
| 16 | Pharmacists are not only willing to talk to you about medicines but about many other aspects of health as well — and in private if you prefer other customers not to hear . |
| 17 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 18 | Where there is no joint action , each member state is entirely free to act on its own . |
| 19 | If the Minister can give us any example from the privatisation programme , in which the Government have been engaged since 1979 , of a Secretary of State coming to the House in order to bring in check private owners who have subsequently done away with the right of the employees of former public companies , I should be extremely interested to hear about it . |
| 20 | Yet there are ingredients that are especially interesting to use by themselves . |
| 21 | The cost per head will be £5.00 ( which allows for a contribution to NCT funds if enough of us go ) and its obviously sensible to arrange for us to share 4–5 cars . |
| 22 | If it were put to us in this way we might be less prone to think of it as imposing a vastly increased burden on the community . |
| 23 | As a keen watersports enthusiast I was greatly alarmed to read in your news pages about the high quantities of toxic algae currently present in many of our inland waterways . |
| 24 | Yet Simmons was extremely fortunate to survive beyond his first over . |
| 25 | You will not find it quite so easy to get round me . ’ |
| 26 | But there is growing consensus that the broader functions of a medical education , which are assuming greater importance in the undergraduate curriculum , are not so easy to learn from someone untrained in educational method . |
| 27 | ‘ If there any doubts … do n't take it ’ advises the book , easy to say , less easy to obey for someone in pain or distress , not so easy w hen it is considered that even too much coffee , cola drink or chocolate will register a positive result . |
| 28 | If you deviate from it , and it 's terribly easy to deviate from it by rejecting certain thoughts , oh that 's silly , that 's not relevant , that 's too obvious , that 's objectionable , erm , that 's too Freudian , you know , if you say that kind of thing to yourself you get nowhere . |
| 29 | Either way I was long overdue to call on them . |
| 30 | It is hard to think of any British rock , for instance , that 's sufficiently ignorant to consist of nothing but screamworthiness alone . |