Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 2 | I 've just phoned her up just to tell her . |
| 3 | you would have done it early enough to say , oh well , we can invite somebody else . |
| 4 | He 'd hear the engine starting , of course , but , by the time he 'd got himself together enough to do anything about it , she should at least have a head start . |
| 5 | They would n't have had it long enough to clear their own ground rent . |
| 6 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 7 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 8 | As the police in both countries in recent years have relied increasingly on notions of professionalism to defend themselves against political attack , so police organizations have asserted themselves more publicly to promote not only their own organization , but also particular policies regarding law and order which they deem to be necessary . |
| 9 | The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 10 | Lady Morton had no doubt enjoined them not only to look after his every need , but also to report back to her . |
| 11 | ‘ I have not brought you back here to discuss a divorce , or any possible remarriage — to Marissa , or any one else ! ’ he ground out harshly . |
| 12 | She had not known him long enough to become accustomed to the impact of his looks , but she felt confident she could hide any extra fluttering of the pulse which he gave her . |
| 13 | The war in Poland raged tragically , but even the French had pulled themselves together sufficiently to coin triumphalist slogans about their might and will . |
| 14 | I assumed he 'd found us somewhere else to live while it was being rebuilt . |
| 15 | ‘ But this attack has hit him hard enough to call you back at once . |
| 16 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 17 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 18 | I bet he 's not tightened it up properly to seal it . |
| 19 | Despite the fact that he had apparently not put himself out overmuch to get home , he was given a hero 's welcome in Polperro . |
| 20 | It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search . |
| 21 | He had tried his very best to grow . |
| 22 | Blend Six that you 've been trying out here is pretty much my baby , although everything really is a team effort , but that 's why Jason has sent me out here to deal with it . ’ |
| 23 | Unsettled by the riddle , Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace . |
| 24 | Franca thought , he 's sent her on ahead to fix things up , to have things out , to clarify things , to establish the regime , how things are to be from now on . |
| 25 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |