Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 've got to act fairly quickly so can we decide in principle whether we 're going to do this or not and let them know that we either are or we are n't . |
| 2 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 3 | So so so I say that first because we have in the past had people who felt worried by this attitude , they felt you know that they really they were people who perhaps had a background in the National Trust and who really felt that it was their job to say , oh no do n't touch that . |
| 4 | And if all else failed it would probably be an effective , if unsubtle way of letting his wife know that something rather more serious than Marriage Guidance was required to get them out of their marital difficulties . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man . |
| 6 | Instead , she let him know that she never took guys home on a first date . |
| 7 | And the older you get , and you should know that you just take the nice bits out of life . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you know that he also saved my life at the very time we met ? ’ |
| 9 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 10 | Do we even know that he ever reached Turkey ? |
| 11 | They still had more right than she did to own anything her father had left , but she desperately wanted something , something to be able to look at , something to let her know that he really had existed and that he had needed her after all . |
| 12 | I feel it is important that you , your readers and the tennis public should know that I no longer take part in any decision making relating to the business of the company or the centre and therefore I take no responsibility , for either the success or failure of Junior Tennis Centre Ltd nor Sutton Junior Tennis Centre . |
| 13 | I was flooded with joy , and all at once it seemed the most important thing in the world that he should know that I still loved him , too . |
| 14 | Count Hubner thought that the Empress was ‘ more beautiful than ever ’ , and Lord Cowley , the English ambassador , said : ‘ I do not know that I ever witnessed a finer sight than the baptismal ceremonies . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know that I ever 'ad one , the orphanage never said I did , but they did say me birthday was December the second , and that I was born in 1889 . ’ |
| 16 | erm , and erm , I do n't know that I ever did this , but I never heard anybody heard anybody walking the street , whistling the National Anthem . |
| 17 | Do you know that I once beat Ulrike Meyfarth ! ’ |
| 18 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 19 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 20 | He is all the better as a witness , since one can not doubt that he genuinely sought instruction . |
| 21 | You do n't buy that there so |
| 22 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 23 | Though the existence of a variety of competing perspectives in sociology can sometimes be confusing and a little frustrating to the new student , he or she must recognise that there simply is no nice , neat package of ‘ sociology ’ which is universally accepted and which provides all the answers . |
| 24 | It is not surprising , therefore , that not only did he consider that he alone would set the pace , but also that the pace he chose to set was that of a dilatory gastropod . |
| 25 | Does not that remark demonstrate that we never had an independent nuclear deterrent , as neither President Yeltsin nor anyone else in the Soviet Union accepted it as a deterrent ; and that we have poured tens of billions of pounds down the drain trying to maintain that mystique ? |
| 26 | Theoretically , they can only both be true if we can demonstrate that they truthfully reflect a genuinely contradictory reality , in terms of their competing contributions to the structure and dynamic of a complex system of ideas and propositions , established to theorize that reality . |
| 27 | The thing is , with this I do n't think half the people listen to you 're meant to know you 're meant to , in these exams you 're meant to have everything you should know and everything else |
| 28 | Now erm you will already know and I certainly would 've told you on the phone that er you are not responsible for setting the assignments up . |
| 29 | Instead of concentrating on the lines of the dance — which they will need if they ever dance in Ashton 's Symphonic Variations or Monotones , MacMillan 's Requiem or Bintley 's Consort Lessons — students spend more time loosening up to meet the demands of modern choreographers . |
| 30 | So you 're not writing an essay , what you 're doing is saying , well if this question came up , this is how I would answer it , then what I will do is give you feedback there and then on wh what else you can include and what else you ca n't . |