Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if all else failed it would probably be an effective , if unsubtle way of letting his wife know that something rather more serious than Marriage Guidance was required to get them out of their marital difficulties . |
| 2 | I feel it is important that you , your readers and the tennis public should know that I no longer take part in any decision making relating to the business of the company or the centre and therefore I take no responsibility , for either the success or failure of Junior Tennis Centre Ltd nor Sutton Junior Tennis Centre . |
| 3 | I do n't know if they ever fully understood it . |
| 4 | I think that 's a very important thing to do , but I think there 's something else that I think I do n't know if anyone else here would agree with me , but I think women are very bad at pushing themselves forward and particularly bad at planning their career . |
| 5 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 6 | Maybe I do n't know but it just so I would say he should n't snore like he does all night . |
| 7 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 8 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 9 | I should explain that I never once thought that he should ‘ give way to me ’ — as Nonni said he should — because I was ill ; only because , as I told him , I had always thought of him as ‘ a reasonable human being with some pretensions to morality ’ . |
| 10 | Now it 's obviously going to vary from establishment to establishment , but do you feel that we perhaps still have some way to go ? |
| 11 | Mr Bob Clay ( Lab Sunderland N ) asked what British Rail would do if it no longer ended in King 's Cross and the terminal was not needed . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll do as I damn well please ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'm not one and I 'll do as I damn well please ! ’ |
| 14 | So here ended my first tour and I could not claim that I ever actually had a clear view of any German target , save that which we did locate with the aid of Jimmy Marks ' experiment northeast of Rotterdam in mid-June 1940 . |
| 15 | Having shown the sudden , deep interest , how could Mungo now claim that he no longer wanted to visit the stable ? |
| 16 | We do not believe that anyone actually consciously thinks this way , but when we have helped people work through their emotions , in retrospect , that is what it actually boils down to . |
| 17 | I could n't believe that he just about had the audacity to phone this guy up . |
| 18 | Can I suggest that they probably simply do not know , they work in a particular way , a particular level . |
| 19 | In any case , might I suggest that you now forward my subscriber copy in a brown-paper envelope . |
| 20 | Really weird , honestly , when you , you really had the faith it would happen and it quite often |
| 21 | He agrees that we can ask what justifies these beliefs ; but to do so would mean that we no longer treated them as having this special status . |
| 22 | If a batch of a product is close to the specification limit in respect of any parameter at the time of manufacture then even a slight change may mean that it no longer complies with its specification , so that its effective shelf-life is very short . |
| 23 | ‘ Would it mean that you no longer had jurisdiction , sir ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm well aware that my silence over Thomas now means you consider me the pits , but it does n't necessarily mean that you no longer — ’ |
| 25 | However I do not propose that we too quickly problematize the concept out of existence , since some of the questions it begs , even in its inadequate form , are just the sort which need to be asked . |
| 26 | ‘ Although I do n't recall that we ever actually spoke to each other . ’ |
| 27 | Well I thought you 'd come cos I very rarely get many people in much before er |
| 28 | This is what two players would each receive if they both consistently cooperated , scoring 3 points for each of the 200 rounds of the game . |
| 29 | This is what two players would each receive if they both consistently cooperated , scoring 3 points for each of the 200 rounds of the game . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose equality will come when you no longer notice whether it is a man or a woman across the table . ’ |