Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 2 | Did you speak fairly slowly to help them ? |
| 3 | Well , we did n't do too well did we ? |
| 4 | However , in the absence of Dosshell , and as far as hard disk management goes , Menuworks will do very nicely thank you . |
| 5 | ‘ I would like once again to thank you for the major contribution you 've made to our AIDS education programme this year . |
| 6 | I do remember clearly now depressed we became as the weeks went by and we could see , looming ahead , yet another wartime winter with its accompanying cold , damp and bad news . |
| 7 | taking any notice erm Mum will give him titbits occasionally and you 've got ta work hard then to get him out of the habit of it . |
| 8 | But he 'll work late tonight doing it again . |
| 9 | Test ; the yarn must run freely so move it backwards and forwards . |
| 10 | anything , there 's nothing in there which does , just a few er telephone lines er , going across the skyline there but they 're very faint , you can hardly see them , you 've got ta look very closely to see them . |
| 11 | It did n't work very well did it Stuart ? |
| 12 | Does n't work anywhere else does it ? |
| 13 | As long as it does n't look too obviously like you , he 'll be thrilled . |
| 14 | I could not move fast enough to support him . |
| 15 | Did n't sleep very well did you ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter . |
| 18 | It do n't take long now does it ? |
| 19 | While the Secretary of State has tried to assure the House about the problems and implications of recognition of Croatia , will he try once more to reassure us about that recognition ? |
| 20 | Eliot 's 1921 meeting with Dr Roger Vittoz in Lausanne must have once more forced him to confront his own history and ambitions . |
| 21 | You 'd have well basically timesed it by three . |
| 22 | Well I could have quite easily hit him last night . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I did n't have anywhere else to put it at home ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Course I do or I would n't have bloody well asked yer , would I ? ’ |
| 27 | In the NI 's first editorial by a woman , Maggie Black described the beauty of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl she met on the road to Selekleka and mourned the transience of that beauty ‘ if policies do n't change fast enough to avoid her back being bent , her hands calloused , her body broken , by the time she is 30 ’ . |
| 28 | They did n't stay there long did they ? |
| 29 | no oh you did n't stay there long did you ? |
| 30 | Since all three of these matters relate to Personnel , I was wondering if you , Margaret and myself could get together soon to discuss them ? |