Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes wish I did n't think so much about what I do , and just pottered along doing it the way it 's always been done ( like the bloke in the next-door room does ! ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you really think so little of yourself that that could be all I wanted ? ’ she stabbed back and was pleased to see dull colour rise in his cheeks . |
| 3 | In 1811 most mule spinners could earn only half of their peak earnings ; even so this was in most cases more than the earnings of fully employed weavers . |
| 4 | The current drug of choice is oxybutynin , which in divided daily doses of between 5 and 15 mg may improve symptoms in up to 70% of patients but will make only half of them continent . |
| 5 | He opposed the new clause because it would cover only half of the Scottish bus industry — that half which the Bill will privatise . |
| 6 | If you know that a dessert is likely to be particularly rich but it is something you relish , then do not eat so much of the main course ; you will then be hungry enough to enjoy the dessert without feeling sick or bloated . |
| 7 | After all , I can only eat so much of the same thing . |
| 8 | We did laugh so much during those months — you must have seen us sometimes at the cafe . |
| 9 | After making us laugh so much in Norway , almost everyone assumed Our Boys would beat the mighty USA . |
| 10 | May be I will eat only half of it . |
| 11 | The package of tax and national insurance changes that we actually propose will include lifting the ceiling on national insurance contributions , which will affect only those on individual earnings of £405 a week , or £21,000 a year , from April ; introducing a new top rate tax of 50p in the pound , which will affect only those on individual earnings well above £30,000 a year . |
| 12 | The package of tax and national insurance changes that we actually propose will include lifting the ceiling on national insurance contributions , which will affect only those on individual earnings of £405 a week , or £21,000 a year , from April ; introducing a new top rate tax of 50p in the pound , which will affect only those on individual earnings well above £30,000 a year . |
| 13 | Without greater honesty , we shall not combat effectively some of the extreme and ugly negativism which is widespread and which is epitomised by the derogatory phrases which Isaacs ( 1981 ) describes as ‘ defamatory ’ like ‘ old Crumble ’ . |
| 14 | Direct , the same as erm fertiliser coming in , a lot of lorries would come down there and get the fertiliser , different say merchants , different farmers , they used to go through the agent and they 'd buy so much off the agent , this different fertiliser if could n't supply it , what they wanted . |
| 15 | How could he write such things ? she wondered dumbly ; how could he know so much about sex , so much about sin ? |
| 16 | ‘ How do you know so much about it , anyway ? ’ he mumbled . |
| 17 | ‘ How on earth do you know so much about it ? |
| 18 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 19 | It 's a common disease , so why do we know so little about it ? |
| 20 | It does seem to me that there are still relatively few women who become professional scientists , and today I hope that you two ladies will help me explore perhaps some of the reasons why this is the case . |
| 21 | The council can fund only half of next year 's grants . |
| 22 | Because he 'd wound so much of it around his hand , the bundle went with some weight and accuracy and then tumbled , unravelling like a falling spider , on the other side . |
| 23 | I wo n't need just all of it , so |
| 24 | It may flesh-out Burbank 's story , and it may strip away some of the glory from the Shakespearian version of Antony 's . |
| 25 | Yeah I know , did n't count hardly any of them did we ? |
| 26 | Bock , owner of the Kempinski luxury hotels chain , will buy nearly half of Rowland 's 15 per cent stake worth £50 million with an option to buy the remainder in three years . |
| 27 | What you must do is preserve as much of that space as you can , especially downwind of you . |
| 28 | Did she know as much about cigars as she did about sweets ? ’ |
| 29 | The creep will also say things like , ‘ Oh , I know just how you feel ’ or ‘ I hear what you say ’ , and by the end of the interview you 'll know as much about them as they know about you . |
| 30 | It may know as much about its suppliers ( and their Competitors ) as it does about its own markets . |