Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must beg therefore to give up the appointment and request you to accept my Resignation . |
| 2 | Accordingly she wrote to her favourite niece Lilian Baylis , then in South Africa , requesting that she should return home to take over the management of the theatre . |
| 3 | I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom ! |
| 4 | ‘ My daughters said I should come here to help clear this thing up , to find who really did this because unless it is cleared up then history will say that we were sent to our deaths by Britain , and that means the British people and the British army and they do n't deserve that because it is out of character . ’ |
| 5 | The highest ranking muderrises-those at the Suleymaniye medreses -go to certain named kadiliks such as Damascus and Aleppo , for example , while the muderrises of the next two lower classes — the and the — may choose either to take up kadiliks such as those of Jerusalem , Baghdad and Filibe , or to go to the next higher rank of medrese . |
| 6 | Such is the state of computer technology for the registration and running of club membership lists that hobby-based clubs for children or adults like this , run by publishers , could well proliferate , and lively booksellers might do well to get in on the act . |
| 7 | But it might do well to look very carefully at the IASC 's work . |
| 8 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 9 | For the time being , however , investors might do better to clear out their portfolios than to add to them . |
| 10 | I 'll try harder to keep out of your way , try not to annoy you . |
| 11 | Well there is but I mean it 'll take forever to get there ! |
| 12 | I 'll get then to ring Alright . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll come home to get well and then we 'll think of something else for you . ’ |
| 14 | If I might turn briefly to see how such a scheme might possibly work . |
| 15 | Right will you you may work together to work out . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd do best to meet away from the office , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd do well to think better of it , and come home . |
| 18 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 19 | Because I mind our Dad saying : ‘ She 'd do better to take on a class o' twelve-years-olds than take on Walter Machin ! ’ |
| 20 | I 'd do better to jog home than drive . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd do better to look where we 're going , ’ she snapped , ‘ rather than trying to work out my vital statistics ! ’ |
| 22 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 23 | You 'd do better to buy in from outside . |
| 24 | A man of ever-changing whims , and now I see you 're freed from your fearful collar , Midnight , you 'd do better to sign on . |
| 25 | But those about to leave the damp and wintry British Isles for sunnier climes could do well to reflect on just two products from one of ICI 's most successful businesses which derive , ultimately , from salt deposits found beneath the Cheshire countryside and the technology used to extract useful materials from it . |
| 26 | And then over the page it actually then , puts through gives us the quite nicely , erm a document that we could use just to send out and and do . |
| 27 | I 'd like just to pop round to my sister 's — that sort of thing … |
| 28 | See you just start off by going through them one by one and consider what point is being made in each and those of you who 'd like just to move round and join these two ladies . |
| 29 | He meant he 'd find somewhere to doss down , and that included me . |
| 30 | However , because of the low levels of provision of rural council houses and small owner-occupied bungalows , especially purpose-built accommodation for the elderly , people who want to move out of accommodation that is too large may have nowhere to go locally . |