Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm so sorry I would n't listen to you , ’ she said at last . |
| 2 | I am so sorry I could not revert to the ‘ phone at the very moment you rang on Thursday . |
| 3 | If it 's like promoting the idea of killing cops as being a good thing , if this band wanted to do a song like that I would n't want to be in the band . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm afraid I ca n't subscribe to the theory that man should always be ‘ bloody , bold and resolute ’ ; but rather , I confess , that it 's very comforting to lean on you sometimes … more especially as I 've a funny instinct that if I follow your ways I ca n't go wrong , whereas my own existence is apt to be hardening , as you can see that it must be . |
| 5 | Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess . |
| 6 | In this he could not trust to what he felt , for feeling had failed him . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid he ca n't settle to any business else ’ . |
| 8 | To be quite honest I could just go to bed . |
| 9 | ‘ It is my experience of the journalistic fraternity that there is no question too intimate or too personal they will not stoop to . |
| 10 | no lots of six they 'll both come to nothing . |
| 11 | Should England come second they would then go to Genoa to play the runners-up from Group B , who are more likely to be Argentina or the Soviet Union than Romania or Cameroun , although this does look the toughest , tightest group of all . |
| 12 | Sam Corry and his medics carried the wounded who could not walk to the top of the rock above the landing beach , to which they were then lowered , down the rock face , on stretchers . |
| 13 | Probably if you 're having a new home built or something like that you may not have to recourse to those because while you 're having , you 're having your home built you can say to the electrician , alright I want X number of power points here . |
| 14 | ‘ When he serves like that you can not get to the ball , ’ said the Swede . |
| 15 | However , adulthood begins at 18 rather than 21 , and once again we have an example of a desire to shield those aged under 21 which may actually lead to the penalization of some brothers and sisters of that age . |
| 16 | As space is very tight it would probably have to be limited to one page . |
| 17 | I think that one would probably need to be clarified directly with them |
| 18 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 19 | ‘ Sorry we ca n't run to champagne , ’ said Rosie , passing round sticky buns and pouring fizzy lemonade . |
| 20 | Although while we are alive we can never return to Eden , we can benefit from the ever-flowing waters of Eden . |
| 21 | You wo n't forget your husband — and I 'm sure you would n't want to — but you will manage to rebuild a life without him . |
| 22 | Similarly , for the teenage girl from a strongly Catholic family it might be particularly important that she avoid pregnancy in a relationship with a boy to whom she felt sure she would not like to be married . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not sure she could n't go to ten , and she 'd certainly be ten in looks if she smiled more often . ’ |
| 24 | In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sure they wo n't try to . |
| 26 | The response we 've had indicates that our clients are confident they will not come to any harm . ’ |
| 27 | Exactly as had happened in Normandy forty years before , I was quite sure it would n't happen to me . |
| 28 | Those who would not bow to him in life , it says , now go down on their knees to his bones . |
| 29 | Those who could stand the pace flourished ; those who could not went to the wall . |
| 30 | This is an intolerable situation and society has to remove those who will not conform to reasonable standards of behaviour . |