Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I did so want to dig up a few artichokes this evening . |
| 2 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
| 3 | I would very much like to pick up the ball and run with it as to whether this policy is necessary or not . |
| 4 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 5 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 6 | Let us not constantly try to talk down the coal industry . |
| 7 | This does not necessarily mean paying out a lot of money for several totally new changes of clothes . |
| 8 | She thought of Jonathan , but decided that she must have been too angry and hurt , because she could only manage to summon up the blurriest of images of him . |
| 9 | But if it is cold , a monarch can not work up the energy to fly and can only manage to crawl up the nearest sage brush . |
| 10 | And those local wine and cheese mornings and the open air Shakespeare and the woolly ties and the pot pourri and the comfrey-scented face creams and all those coffee table books about life in Edwardian country houses well , it does all tend to bring out the boor in at least one member . |
| 11 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 12 | I 'd just like to put in a word for Salman Rushdie . |
| 13 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 14 | I 'd just like to pick up the point that 's been made twice that there 's no such thing as an affordable housing problem . |
| 15 | Yeah , but if you would just like to fill in a form , we will be with you as soon as possible |
| 16 | Or , as one football club committee man said : ‘ We 'll just keep filling in the pools coupon . ’ |
| 17 | I mean this they must have got my name through Miriam so they must already have worked out the they were working |
| 18 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |
| 19 | Truthfully , of course ; I 'd see how it sounded , and if it were too reprehensible , well , I 'd just have to think up a good lie , that was all , right now at the outset , and stick to it until perhaps I 'd begin to believe it myself . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll just have to get up a bit earlier , that 's all . ’ |
| 21 | Er , I do n't physically have to type out the labels , but I have physically have to be in the office , to initiate the computer sorts , because under something called personal job insurance scheme , I 've layered the sort of routine under a lot of security codes and I 'm only , the only person who knows where they are . |
| 22 | If the borrower could no longer afford to keep up the payments , the longer he stayed in the home the more the interest bill mounted . |
| 23 | You have no need to worry , though , that this situation will be a permanent one , for as she recovers she will gradually want to take over the reins of her own life again . |
| 24 | ‘ No woman would ever want to walk down the aisle thinking that she was the bet in a silly game of golf . ’ |
| 25 | However , if a taxpayer is preparing to carry out IHT planning by giving property to a trust then he should still consider setting up an overseas trust rather than a UK trust . |
| 26 | At this early stage in getting to know Qbasic you can hardly expect to turn out a master work but to leave you with just Hello World until next month would be cruel . |
| 27 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 28 | No market advisers could ever have dreamed up a better ploy because Laura was only enunciating theories she had always believed in . |
| 29 | Unless the contract is frustrated , the seller will still have to carry out the contract and if he delivers goods which do not comply with it , he will be in breach of contract . |
| 30 | Thorfinn had said , ‘ To get to Dunkeld … to get to anywhere that matters , he would still have to sail up the Tay or march north by the Forth crossing . |