Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am a fairly lonely person — I do have friends but I do n't get to see them very often because of my unsociable shift work . |
| 2 | ‘ Mum gets a bit tired ; I go to see them as often as I can : it cheers Dad up , and Mum loves the children . ’ |
| 3 | I try to see them as often as I can . |
| 4 | Did I tell you Madeleine came to see me again shortly after you left ? |
| 5 | Practitioners of such technically adept management , the new ‘ professional managers ’ of United States business schools , have recently been lambasted both for their failure to conceive strategies and to implement them as well as for their systematic choice of self-defeating strategies ( Hayes and Abernathy , 1980 ; see also Hayes and Wheelwright , 1984 ; Hayes et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | If the worms start to move into their burrows when disturbed , do not try to pull them back out as they can grip the sides of the burrow very strongly . |
| 7 | employees think the scheme is unfair , lacks objectivity , is meant to catch them out rather than develop them |
| 8 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
| 9 | Should delivery be delayed we undertake to inform you as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | Modern linguistics is a field full of conflicting theories , and an external observer would be hard put to accept one as better than the rest . |
| 11 | She could n't allow herself that brief moment of hope , only to find herself right back where she had started . |
| 12 | With luck , the Jews would not be able to find him as quickly as that . |
| 13 | I have to shake her quite hard before she wakes up . |
| 14 | Confident as Sara was of her own skill as a horsewoman , she would have had to know him very well before she dared to ride him , but Bunny , she knew , rode him constantly without fear . |
| 15 | And Peper Peter had to accept it not just once you know and then he was a changed man . |
| 16 | ‘ Balladic archetypes ’ sprang to her mind a good phrase , she 'd try to work it in somewhere when she got back to university . |
| 17 | That was quick , that five forty , I was trying to work it out out because I was n't going to cancel it that way , but that 's great . |
| 18 | You do n't have to hammer it out just because we 're being recorded Jeremy ! |
| 19 | During the use of some programs , eg , PIRATES ( see reference 1 ) , if the pace of the lesson is not controlled , so much information is contained in pupil responses and computer responses that it is almost impossible for the teacher to process it as efficiently as he would like . |
| 20 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 21 | Herta comes down to visit me as often as she can , which is not very often , because this is wartime , after all . |
| 22 | By constantly loose feeding loose maggots he was able to keep the fish active in his swim , enabling him to pick them off steadily until he had about 10 lb. 6 oz . |
| 23 | To ensure that his subjects acquired the habit of carrying out his instructions he had to visit them as often as possible , and although the king 's itinerary was normally publicized in advance — so that merchants and tradesmen , as well as petitioners , could frequent his court without difficulty — it was sometimes useful to turn up without warning . |
| 24 | Metal type wears out , and new ‘ founts ’ ( complete sets of a single design ) are expensive — so the best printer in the world is not going to replace them more often than absolutely necessary . |
| 25 | Replacement adsorption pads cost around £5 for three and because of this expense , human nature being what it is , there is a tendency not to replace them as regularly as recommended . |
| 26 | It is as easy for the sportsman to shoot me up here as down there . |
| 27 | Our task now is to work to persuade him to reverse them as soon as possible , so that legal aid can once again serve its purpose of enabling all those unable to afford legal advice and representation to have access to justice ’ . |
| 28 | This requires him to immerse himself as thoroughly as he can in the life of the community he is trying to understand . |
| 29 | You must allow all the horror of the picture to visit you as often as it will . |
| 30 | Mr Dalrymple 's son Joe said the gunmen had been prepared to shoot anybody so long as they were Catholics . |