Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] and [pers pn] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the trucks failed to appear and they learned that talks will be held today with the telecommunications consortium . |
| 2 | ‘ I just want to play and it looks as though I will . ’ |
| 3 | I presided over a the Criminal Law Revision Committee when we reviewed the law relating to rape and we discovered that there was this myth that women asked for rape . |
| 4 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 5 | I have to confess that I had not anticipated the direction that your inquiries were going to take and I feel that my immediate responses were fragmented and unhelpful . |
| 6 | There is one final point I would like to make and I know that many people may not accept it , but I think there will not be any significant improvement here while violence persists . |
| 7 | The S.N.M. declined to attend and it seems that General Aidid did not do so either . |
| 8 | Such evidence is now beginning to appear and I believe that my hon. Friends and I will be proved to have been right all along in our predictions of the effect of the student loan scheme . |
| 9 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 10 | The sanctions really are beginning to bite and I wonder if Saddam feels that er he may be able to ask a favour or two from the West , in return for the release of these three British men . |
| 11 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 12 | But anyway , we jumped to it and started to jive and I decided that we were quite sympathetic and we got along quite well — a similar sense of humour , and lewd attitude towards women — we just basically got along well . |
| 13 | But we started to chat and I thought that , in spite of the rotten conditions , there might be some fun in it after all . |
| 14 | He said but I sit at night he said when she 's gone to work and he said and help them with their drawings and things they 're doing . |
| 15 | I must tell the House and the Minister that there are only 15 minutes left for this debate ; other hon. Members wish to participate and I hope that they will get the chance to do so . |
| 16 | Still the Japanese refused to surrender and it appeared that the war might drag on for months , even years , at terrible cost . |
| 17 | And er she erm she said , I know what you wanted to say and I appreciate that you find it difficult to put it into words |