Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're so lovely , ’ he said huskily , and her throat had a great lump in it suddenly that threatened to choke her . |
| 2 | Opening her door , she edged inside and tried to close it . |
| 3 | We love her so much and want to give her a lovely home . |
| 4 | I told her that I loved her very much and wanted to marry her . |
| 5 | The phone rang , and she rose lethargically and went to answer it . |
| 6 | Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers . |
| 7 | ANC president Nelson Mandela was informed by Bush of his decision personally and tried to dissuade him . |
| 8 | I wondered , if Jean-Claude were there , why the child had not said so and gone to fetch him for me ? |
| 9 | Maurice clasped his hands together and seemed to study them . |
| 10 | The doctor brought his hands together and seemed to study them . |
| 11 | Perhaps one agrees that expansion of the money supply and inflation do often go together but refuses to accept it as significant unless told why . |
| 12 | It is much easier to prevent this situation developing by being firm from the outset , rather than trying to remedy it later . |
| 13 | Just write the minus two all the way across there cos it allows you to do the calculation much easier rather than trying to remember it . |
| 14 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 15 | By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern . |
| 16 | Therefore corrections must be extremely small and like the localiser , what you are aiming at is a steady indication of the GP needle , rather than trying to put it dead in the centre . |
| 17 | Britain had played a positive role by supporting the Namibia settlement and by talking to South Africa rather than trying to ostracise it , she added . |
| 18 | It is , as we saw clearly during the Gulf war , the very sophistication of America 's procurement and the new technology of weaponry that demand that we count the Americans as friends and allies rather than trying to go it alone . |
| 19 | Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns . |
| 20 | If you suffer from really severe indoor condensation problems that sensible ventilation will not cure , it may be worth considering dehumidification — removing the moisture from the air , rather than trying to disperse it . |
| 21 | I tried to get the trade unions into a form which made my managerial activities easier rather than trying to let them find a consensus between themselves . |
| 22 | but you had a eight to finish with which is finishing and a one , two , three might not be and a better run so I think I would have been tempted to finish with the ace flush there try and stop me rather than trying to win it cos you had nothing else did you ? |
| 23 | What is important is being alive to the tension , rather than trying to avoid it . |
| 24 | Continue the walk as normal , pausing for a time at the spot and call the dog back to you , rather than trying to pursue it . |
| 25 | It would be far better , as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said , to conclude association agreements with those countries and to help them in every way to catch up and to adopt the principles of a single free market rather than trying to integrate them within new political structures . |
| 26 | Where a nailed board refuses to move , it is often easier to punch the mails down into the joist rather than trying to prise them up . |
| 27 | However , rather than serving to dissuade us from finding some base for the notion of students ' academic freedom , the epistemological grounding of the German universities holds some definite clues that are worth pursuing . |
| 28 | He ruled with justice and mercy , befriending the Moors rather than seeking to overpower them with his presence . |
| 29 | Syncretistic vision represents the salient visible details , the hero 's Brylcreemed hair and pocketful of peanuts , rather than seeking to explain him in terms of his social and intellectual background . |
| 30 | Therefore the only satisfaction which the ego can obtain in this way is to lower the tension between itself and whatever superego it has until it brings the ideal down to its own level , rather than aspiring to reach it . |