Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the last thing I want to say , because I know we , our guest is here , and so presumably has collected his thoughts and is able to leap into the breach , the last thing I want to say on this is , writing articles , writing pieces , is a game , another area where practice makes perfect . |
| 2 | The slave will not work unless he is made , and therefore he does little ; he is no better , or little better , if he does his work well than if he does it ill , and therefore he rarely cares to do it very well . |
| 3 | Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England . |
| 4 | BECAUSE HE RARELY HAS TO MAKE ONE . |
| 5 | Montgomerie badly wants to finish his season with a win , having been runner-up four times , including the Dunhill Cup team tournament . |
| 6 | The IFC badly wants to double its capital with an injection of $1.3 billion from its government shareholders . |
| 7 | But you can be absolutely sure that , if that is the position of your business , somebody else somewhere has got your card marked as an easy number and is about to take you by surprise . |
| 8 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 9 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
| 10 | They tell little lies to get themselves out of trouble or make themselves look good , but real villains live in a fantasy world . |
| 11 | She works for an Ipswich insurance company but eventually wants to do something ‘ really worthwhile ’ to help others . |
| 12 | The winner 's the player who amasses enough points to create what the rulebook calls a trance-like state . |
| 13 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 14 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 15 | Finally , in location , size and amenities , the private builder ( including to a large degree the housing association ) necessarily builds to suit his customers and thus provides an index of demand . |
| 16 | A fanciful idea by some toy manufacturer which only goes to underline what was said previously about imagination and licence ! |
| 17 | And when the second person starts to speak , the first person goes through the same performance until there is a chance to interrupt and say : ‘ To get back to what I was saying … ’ or ‘ This only goes to prove my point … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That 's a very chauvinistic remark , and only goes to prove you must be associating with the wrong kind of woman . ’ |
| 19 | it 's a fabulous aeroplane , and this excercise only goes to prove it |
| 20 | Gambles of any kind are ‘ adventurist ’ to the Kremlin 's way of thinking , and the episode only goes to show what a maverick figure Khrushchev was . |
| 21 | Then he had some caviar and rang Italy and said , ‘ Sophia , this play I sent that Marlon 's going to do , he only wants to do it with you . |
| 22 | He said he only wants to put himself |
| 23 | Trouble is she only wants to buy it off you cheaply you see , for |
| 24 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 25 | The Glasgow distiller , owned by the mighty American Brands , only needs to advance its 41.3 per cent stake to just over 50 per cent . |
| 26 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 27 | Making hats for a living and looking at them all day long has mellowed her taste somewhat . |
| 28 | Sun apparently wants to move its base to Sparcstation 10s and Tsunamis and the price hike threat should help clear out inventory . |
| 29 | The group apparently wants to bring its accounting policies into line with those of other large international groups . |
| 30 | Lord Byron so loves to hear me play ! ’ |