Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was her sole reason for getting up at all , the only incentive to clothe and feed herself and drag herself from her bedroom where she would much prefer to stay . |
| 2 | This enables you to decide where your strengths lie and where you would ultimately like to work . |
| 3 | A desert , Menzies thought , a wilderness where you might just manage to survive for forty days and forty nights , especially if there was an angel at hand to minister to you . |
| 4 | The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me . |
| 5 | But I would say that for recording I 'd use the passive sound ; it 's warmer , more mellow , and would sound good — although I 'd still prefer to gig with the Vester . |
| 6 | It is more sad and dispiriting than I could ever begin to explain and you would ever believe . |
| 7 | His memory goes back further than I could possibly hope to remember . |
| 8 | When I saw the room , I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off , but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it . |
| 9 | Er And nothing should happen but we have n't heard , but also after that date we are high and dry again so I would quite like to keep as much in the kitty from the money we 've raised , for the admin course you know , the future of the admin course , as possible . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's so difficult to remember , but I 've said this before , so I 'll probably have to stick to it . ’ |
| 11 | Well I 'll be round Saturday so I can usually manage to get to her . |
| 12 | ‘ I still love rugby so I will probably attempt to play a game . |
| 13 | I 've never had any family at all , so I 'd really like to have an aunt . |
| 14 | Although she would dearly love to know if it was the norm for women to follow him home ! |
| 15 | If you 're after a touch of colour , ‘ false ’ curtains , which do n't draw but hang for decoration only , are one possibility — although you will also need to ventilate the room , opening the window slightly when showering or having a bath . |
| 16 | This reduces the amount of memory your file needs , speeds things up and gives a much better result at the end of the day than you could ever hope to achieve with a scanner . |
| 17 | Today the natural hospitality and the beauty of the mountains is supplemented by more facilities than you could ever hope to master . |
| 18 | You may even have grandchildren by that stage and so you 'll probably want to help them . |
| 19 | The Copacabana offers an excellent choice of bars , including the lobby bar , a terrace bar and a poolside bar , so you 'll never need to go thirsty ! |
| 20 | So I have a list here now it is n't in the notes so you might just want to make a note of this . |
| 21 | It is very difficult to do this without producing a ‘ blurred-vision ’ effect in the resist — so you may well have to scrap that attempt , recoat the board with resist and start all over again . |
| 22 | You are the person who has the initiative , so you should never need to arrange interviews , even one-off interviews , when you are pressed for time . |
| 23 | Their anger or fear antedates even that of the young infant who is in the process of integrating its pre-verbal behaviour with ill-formed vocal utterances ( although we might well wish to stretch a point and allow the inclusion of the Ameslan apes , particularly Lucy , up to , but not beyond , this point ) . |
| 24 | ‘ If it is full steam ahead for next year , I 'd predict that it wo n't be a marathon slog , although we 'll probably try to do as many countries as possible . |
| 25 | This could explain why we see some quasars much nearer than we would normally expect to see them . |
| 26 | There would be far more activities for Jennifer than we could ever hope to provide for her here . ’ |
| 27 | It does at the moment according to the reports , everything is aimed at the control and the command network and also and obviously at the military targets , so we 'll just have to wait and see |
| 28 | There 'll be all the farm work that Robert is leaving behind , so we could probably afford to pay him , at a pinch . |
| 29 | I think the that the first thing to say is that one of the reason why this option this paper was asked for was that we , so we could actually begin to look to see whether or not trickle transfer made sense in Cambridge . |
| 30 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |