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 . |