Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , since this is , after all , my first sermon as curate here — in fact , it 's my first sermon ever — I 'd better stop or the Bishop will be posting me back to Rosstrevor . |
| 2 | I 'd better explain that a commune is a sizable place , in this case with a population of 26,000 , including a small town and many villages . |
| 3 | I 'd better check that the nursing staff are up to date on her meal and insulin timetable . ’ |
| 4 | Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I 'd better say that the Steering Committee did n't seem to believe I saw an inspector . |
| 6 | You 'd better wait until the others come back , and ask them . ’ |
| 7 | I du n no whether a price would be a feature or a benefit . |
| 8 | I du n no because the school I think ends early I do n't know earlier than sort of I think sort of like June or something , but I mean I do n't know . |
| 9 | I do rather feel that the Montagues and Capulets music is a little too hectic , but the other episodes are beautifully managed . |
| 10 | While I fully accept that the poor have become a cause by which many politicians and intellectuals can further their personal ambitions , I do nevertheless find that the Hayekian case is deficient . |
| 11 | Though the Daily News has continued to publish without its workers , managers did not expect that the unions would persuade news-stands , sometimes with strong-arm tactics , to stop selling the paper . |
| 12 | In Lambie [ 1982 ] AC 449 and MPC v Charles [ 1977 ] AC 177 , the payee did not care whether the accused 's account was in the red because he was going to be paid anyway in accordance with his contract with the bank or credit card company which provided the cheque card or credit card . |
| 13 | The shopowner did not care whether the accused was authorised or not because he was paid anyway , provided that the conditions of the card were fulfilled . |
| 14 | The court held that he was not guilty because the customers did not care whether the sandwiches were his or British Rail 's . |
| 15 | She did not care because a cold misery was seeping into her bones as surely as the damp seeped through her thin shoes . |
| 16 | The Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) did not co-operate because the assembly failed to offer them the opportunity of power-sharing which they gained in 1973 . |
| 17 | The next step was to admit indirect words : a trust did not demand that the trustee should be addressed with a properly phrased request . |
| 18 | In other words , it did not appear that the ending of a temporary job increased the likelihood of long-term unemployment . |
| 19 | Mr Lockwood did not appear and the daughter went to his home and demanded to know why . |
| 20 | They did not realise that the obligations they were taking on left them with no leeway to cope with worsening market conditions . |
| 21 | A number of the respondents did not realise that the ATB offered such a wide range of training . |
| 22 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 23 | In cases of " innocent publication " , where the defendant has not intended to criticise the plaintiff ( either because the defendant did not realise that the words would be understood to refer to the plaintiff or the defendant is unaware of special circumstances which make them defamatory ) liability may be avoided by making an " offer of amends " under s4 of the 1952 Defamation Act . |
| 24 | Could this be because the EPA , like the UK Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health , did not conclude that an effect of ‘ passive smoking ’ was demonstrated ? ’ |
| 25 | He compiled the first useful tables of travel times of seismic phases and used them to show that wave speeds increase smoothly with depth , up to a point where they suffer a sharp decrease , which he identified with the boundary of a central core ‘ possessing radically different physical properties ’ , though he did not conclude that the core was liquid . |
| 26 | The Danakil did not hunt and the Abyssinians , who had wiped out most of the game elsewhere , were afraid to venture into their country , since among the Danakil a man 's standing depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated . |
| 27 | Certainly the fascists did not pass and the numbers involved showed the depth of popular hostility against fascism and anti-semitism . |
| 28 | For the same reason , it did not pass when the merchant drew up outside her house . |
| 29 | Thus , in our example , property did not pass when the merchant moved the six bags towards the edge of the lorry 's platform . |
| 30 | ( a ) Property did not pass when the contract to buy was made . |