Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not , miraculously , through any major blood vessels , or I would by now have bled internally to death . |
| 2 | In some ways it was easier having him around where she could at least keep an eye on what he was doing . |
| 3 | Or she could at least get it over in the registry office with a couple of rounds of Spanish bubbly in the pub later ? |
| 4 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 5 | Or he could at least have appeared to accept it and put on a show : he was already capable enough of that . |
| 6 | It may have been because the school was voluntary-aided that the head also wanted religious education to have an important place , not so much in shaping the school but in underlining the requirement that everyone should at least think about his or her religious belief . |
| 7 | The registrar was saying that I must at least remember the year . |
| 8 | And it is through my understanding of drawing , control of the pencil , and study of design , that I can at least set out my figures well . |
| 9 | I hated it , and Dr Kelleher got some of them taken down so that I could at least see the daylight . |
| 10 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 11 | And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking . |
| 12 | Why could n't Joe let her sit in the fireside armchair in the living-room so that she 'd at least have company ? |
| 13 | The model agency office was in a tall old house in Clifton and Paula splashed out some of her savings on a taxi so that she could at least arrive in style . |
| 14 | Make as full a list as possible of what kinds of answer would be possible ( to your main question and also to your other questions ) , so that you can at least consider candidates that your essay may then reject . |
| 15 | The guarantee that you will at least receive an amount equal to your original investment at the end of five years will be unaffected by any change in the rate of tax on policyholders ' funds applicable to Life Insurance Companies . |
| 16 | However , as with most decisions there are advantages and disadvantages on either side and it is important that you should at least know what the choices are . |
| 17 | It guarantees than you will at least double your speed and yet retain much more . |
| 18 | So it would actually be very straightforward to do this , although not a couple of problems in this model that we ought to just say something about alright , the specification of four does present a couple of problems right . |
| 19 | The other thing that we ought to perhaps consider is whether you should change the timetable at all Richard to look at jobs that people expect will be taught . |
| 20 | In the case of Rose of Lima , who is simply a very extreme and therefore very demanding example of a more widespread phenomenon , it seems that we must at least understand , even if we do not wish to reclaim and emulate , the ideas about purity which governed her life . |
| 21 | ‘ We were often so hungry that we used to actually lick the vaseline mixture that was smeared over our bodies to stop the skin chapping . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But since we 're both going to have to stay under this roof for a couple of days , perhaps even longer , maybe we 'd better lay down some ground rules so that we can at least avoid open warfare . ’ |
| 23 | Well one that we can at least discuss as to whether this was Marxism or not . |
| 24 | I had the support of Anne Winterton , so we could at least talk together and walk through the lobbies together to give each other support . |
| 25 | I agree with the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington ( Mr. Forman ) that by far the most useful thing that we could do in the short run would be to fund a payments union among the commonwealth of independent states so that they could at least have a currency in which to trade with one another . |
| 26 | Do n't you think that they should at least nod in the direction ? |
| 27 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |
| 28 | He had called for Etienne some time ago , and was still waiting ; it gratified him to think that he would at least have an excuse to send the stupid pig on ahead of him . |
| 29 | I did not begrudge Wilson this , since I had no wish for my own part to be revealed , but for some reason best known to himself he decided that he would at least claim the credit for having found me . |
| 30 | MacDonald declared that he would at once see the King and advise him to hold a conference on the following morning attended by Baldwin , Samuel and himself . |