Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He must surely have supposed that Alpheus was shown in the southern gable-corner , Cladeus in the north ; and if the designer intended these figures for the rivers he would naturally have set them so .
2 It seems impossible that they could not have known where they were ; they can only have ignored it deliberately , and therefore perhaps for political reasons of their own .
3 Is the contractor entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that if the variation was going to be made in any event at that time , to have been further advanced in the contract programme would only have made it more expensive for the client ?
4 ‘ Dance Energy is only a phase in my life and unless I can do every idea I want on the BBC , then I 'll obviously have to do them somewhere else . ’
5 ‘ I think we 'd better try to get it home , Mrs Lomax , ’ said Tina .
6 There has been a great improvement in the range of goods and cards , I 'm sure you 'll all have noticed it too .
7 In moving towards a satisfying identification of some entity , the mind of a speaker will naturally tend to describe it initially by matching its roughly perceived whole against those properties that are most common in use and perceptually basic .
8 But looking after the stock does n't only mean handling it carefully ; it also means planning stock levels , ordering goods and storing them .
9 The Allied politicians lacked understanding , and yet they did not hesitate to place a barrier to Germany 's growth , and having placed that barrier , did not think to support it effectively in the years to come .
10 I would also like to know how critical the timing of the distributor pump is , as I have tried adjusting it ( by trial and error ) about a couple of degrees , with some improvement in performance , but do not want to take it too far .
11 He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council .
12 He began last night and he knows I do not want to see him again until he is sober .
13 He did not want to see her again , and be faced with his own guilt .
14 You only saw the f oh now oh right so , hands up who saw it all the way through and would not want to see it again as part of the seminar .
15 She would not want to see you again . ’
16 Make sure that you are fully aware of the costs involved and the nature of the deal if you do not want to regret it later on .
17 She may fall ill , or have an accident while you were out , or set the house on fire and herself , so that you would not want to leave her even to go shopping .
18 The soil can be kept in the bag for a day or two if you do not want to use it straight away .
19 And the fact is they will not want to experience it again .
20 Just because he wanted to go to prison , they did not want to send him there .
21 She asked me straight out once what it was , but I did not want to tell her yet .
22 He did not want to win it again because even though ‘ I feel great at the moment , I do n't think it should be won more than once ; the more people who win it , the better ’ .
23 She did not want to catch them unawares again .
24 ‘ Perhaps I do not want to know you either , mademoiselle , ’ he rasped .
25 The RCM held that , if the parents of refugee children had discouraged them from religious practices , their temporary guardians should not presume to treat them differently .
26 When the telescope was first proposed in 1946 , astronomers did not consider siting them abroad , he said .
27 Your information largely confirms what we already knew , and I trust we shall not need to trouble you again . ’
28 I shall not need to trouble you any further .
29 The board of the vendor company also has a duty to deal fairly between all shareholders of the same class , although it does not need to treat them exactly the same if there are particular reasons for different treatment , as in the case of regulatory or exchange control requirements applying to overseas shareholders .
30 We 'll not need to detain you any longer , so when you feel like moving off you do that .
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