Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like to borrow her tomorrow evening , ’ said Clovis lightly . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , very few people will appreciate just how much time , effort and sheer innovative thinking has gone into making the engine look similar to how it would look had we merely pressure washed the outside and mounted it for display . |
| 3 | Fenna might have given her both appetite and menstruation in his parting , but neither of them seemed as though they were worth the effort . |
| 4 | One may presume that the standard of living of both these groups was above the national average , and that this could have given them better resistance to disease than their poorer neighbours . |
| 5 | ‘ But there was nothing untoward going on that could have given anyone any offence . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Jarvis , who spent £40m expanding the chain on the Continent in recent years , said the decision followed Whitbread 's inability to negotiate a new exit clause in the franchise agreement which would have given it more protection . |
| 7 | It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good . |
| 8 | They seemed to her unearthly ; a new combination of loss , pain and fear : they were howls she would have made herself only half-an-hour before , if she had known how . |
| 9 | So I 'll have to prepare it tomorrow morning . |
| 10 | Irritating as Miss Kenton 's behaviour was , I could not afford to give it much thought , for by then the first of the guests had arrived . |
| 11 | In other words there is always the danger that an inexperienced class , given too free a hand , will fail to give themselves any kind of dramatic or authentic experience . |
| 12 | And even if I had , I do n't think I 'd 've paid it much attention . |