Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , I 'd rather wait until you know till |
| 2 | So I suppose I 'm introducing something that would only exist if you started next week . |
| 3 | Why then can you pass the ball into the '22 , a situation which will only arise if you have support there to pass to . |
| 4 | We 'd better disappear before he comes to collect , ’ Nails said . |
| 5 | Even if someone else comes up to us and tips us off about a possible shoplifter we can only act if we see the person steal again , ’ she adds . |
| 6 | They can only act as he has taught them . |
| 7 | But we will only win if you vote for us on 3rd May . |
| 8 | But we will only win if you vote for us on 3rd May . |
| 9 | Do n't you think you better wait till she comes back ? |
| 10 | They regarded the occupation of land as the essential base of family and community life , but at the same time , they knew they could only survive if they had wage-earning employment as well . |
| 11 | Lothian Highways can only survive if it operates as a TEAM . |
| 12 | There is tremendous customer loyalty involved in the fortunes of Champagne , but this loyalty can only survive if it has a two-way traffic . |
| 13 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 14 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 15 | There 's a lot of emphasis these days about individuals growing as individuals , but are you really saying that because women are obviously individuals they ought to be given the opportunity of growing in a way that they could only do if they had jobs ? |
| 16 | If I 'd less sense than I have , I 'd have believed them . |
| 17 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 18 | I 'm sure such generalisations are unjust , but I can only speak as I find ! |
| 19 | I did not want to go , but Dana said we had better do as they asked . |
| 20 | As such , they are part of an extremely ancient tradition for Assyrian mothers who used to scare recalcitrant children with the scarecrow Narses ; and a warning widely repeated today is very similar : ‘ You 'd better do as I say , or the boogeyman will get you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd better do as I say , Shih Herrick and get me out of here . |
| 22 | Come on , you 'd better do as he says and look after me , or you 'll end up in trouble . |
| 23 | ‘ But you 'd better do as he tells you . |
| 24 | We 'd better do as she says or we 'll not get a cup o' tea . |
| 25 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 26 | Dana darted after him but Roman did n't appear to notice her , or to hear her calling him , and she could only watch as he drove away . |
| 27 | ‘ Of all the stupid , careless — ’ Flinching beneath contemptuous anger that gave each word the force of a blow , Polly could only watch as he made a visible effort to control himself . |
| 28 | I could only watch as he changed . |
| 29 | Students at that time could apparently choose when they wished to be examined ( after the continental custom ) as there was no fixed examination schedule as we know it . |
| 30 | I do n't necessarily feel like I invented anything ; I always played what I wanted to play . |