Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They even get angry and suggest these are lies put about by foreigners who do not understand how deeply attuned they are to Mother Africa . |
| 2 | True , it was not so spectacular as earlier assaults on it , such as the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 , so it is hardly surprising that Israeli leaders should have so contemptuously dismissed it , so patently failed to understand its revolutionary import : that , for the first time , the enemy was offering the prospect of the civilised , peaceful , negotiated settlement for which Israel had clamoured since its foundation . |
| 3 | Eliot 's 1921 meeting with Dr Roger Vittoz in Lausanne must have once more forced him to confront his own history and ambitions . |
| 4 | You 'd have well basically timesed it by three . |
| 5 | Well I could have quite easily hit him last night . |
| 6 | It was mikva night , and the last thing in the world that she felt like doing was making love to her husband — she could have quite cheerfully strangled him ! |
| 7 | ‘ Course I do or I would n't have bloody well asked yer , would I ? ’ |