Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could not help respecting the man who still stood firmly for his rights , after having fought and suffered and been defeated in the struggle for their maintenance . ’ |
| 2 | You will need to warn management of the potentially adverse effects of refusing to appear or to comment and this will need to be set against the fact that having a valid argument does not always guarantee a sympathetic audience . |
| 3 | Thursday dawned as dully as the day before and Fabia got out of bed and went through the routine of getting showered and dressed and going down to breakfast with a total lack of enthusiasm or appetite . |
| 4 | Balbinder would be 8 at Christmas and she saw no evidence of the improvement in learning to read and write that she was hoping for . |
| 5 | The effect of the war was , as in many other industries , to force government , employers and unions in shipping to face and to solve as best they could , many problems of relationships and jurisdictions which had been simmering , and from time to time erupting , for many years . |
| 6 | Section 3 provides : ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , a person who , knowing that payment on the spot for any goods supplied or service done is required or expected from him , dishonestly makes off without having paid as required or expected and with intent to avoid payment of the amount due shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 7 | He was not averse to giving slaps and pushes when he considered them necessary . |
| 8 | He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're gon na have to check and see if there are more back at the house . |
| 10 | Or is it because I am worn out by passivity , by having to accept and bear and endure , and because I am quite clever and resourceful , I have just turned , like the proverbial worm ? |