Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A good thing you were near Gullholm when the engine failed or you 'd never have survived . ’ |
| 2 | You will have to be organised or you 'll never find anything but it is worth it . |
| 3 | Counselling skills can be learned but they do require practice and Burnard warns that counselling techniques should not be overused or they may indeed impede listening and communication . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a good thing for you I 'm driving or I might just show you whose woman you really are . |
| 5 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 6 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 7 | By denying that we could empirically identify the linguistic framework employed by other agents ( or , indeed by ourselves ) , Quine challenged the claim that we can have a substantive prior conception of truth which can be used to formulate questions for transcendental reflection . |
| 8 | I contrasted two quotations : an epigram of Goethe , saying that through reading Plutarch he learned that we were all human beings , and a passage from Hegel denying that we can ever understand the men of classical Antiquity because they represent a different stage in the evolution of the human mind . |
| 9 | Some writers suggest that one can easily overestimate the significance and influence of the embryonic pre-independence African press . |
| 10 | N brief , I suggest that we can best understand the form of modern doctrines by situating them in a broader dialogue within liberal political philosophy concerning the relation between the citizen and the state . |
| 11 | Department of Health guidelines ( DHSS , 1988b ) suggest that they should also offer parents an opportunity to have their views and wishes heard and that parents should be invited , where practicable , to attend part , or if appropriate the whole , of the case conference . |
| 12 | cos Jenny did n't even know that you could bloody put on weight by drinking . |
| 13 | But I do n't know that I shall ever make much use of these languages . " |
| 14 | Do n't you know that I would never hurt you ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No one likes playing in the reserves and everyone at Sunderland should know that I would always give 100 per cent . ’ |
| 16 | I do not know the answer , but I do know that I 'd rather win or lose . |
| 17 | However , it must be stressed that you must still practise the manoeuvre if you are to stand any chance of success in an emergency situation . |
| 18 | Celia had already stressed that she would never countenance her husband at the birth . |
| 19 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
| 20 | But proving the necessity of crime requires more than showing that some things that were formerly criminal are now important parts of healthy social life ( even if we were to accept that we can objectively determine what constitutes healthy social life ) . |
| 21 | ‘ The snag was , she found it impossible to accept that anyone could possibly find her less than addictive . |
| 22 | To actually meet a man she did n't find boring , a man who could make her feel , and to know that nothing could ever come of it ? |
| 23 | We want you to know that you will always get a fair deal when you book with us . |
| 24 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 25 | I knew him well enough by now to know that he would never presume to tell me what to do . |
| 26 | , I just want you to know that I shall never change , but I also want you to allow me to come home now and again for a few days . |
| 27 | The same circumstances required that Franca should sleep downstairs ; Franca had herself , promptly forestalling embarrassment , simplified the rearrangement by announcing that she would now occupy her boudoir ; and letting Jack and Alison assent silently , and without having to murmur ‘ please ’ or ‘ thank you ’ . |
| 28 | And what most of the analysis misses is that reports such as this will accelerate the process , persuading those that do n't want to downsize that they will soon have little alternative as vendors put mainframe lines onto care and maintenance . |
| 29 | And what most of the analysis misses is that reports such as this will accelerate the process , persuading those that do n't want to downsize that they will soon have little alternative as vendors put mainframe lines onto care and maintenance . |
| 30 | If that is how we still feel , then we must recognise that we can only think this way because the Enemy is not threatening us . |