Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [conj] the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take two or three of these before meals and let me know if the symptoms do n't clear up . ’ |
| 2 | Should I wait until the highlights have grown out or could I have a colour put on top ? |
| 3 | Do you think that the spotlights have |
| 4 | Why do you think that the stories have continued even to this day about the supposed link between the tax case and the gift of funds to build the National Gallery ? |
| 5 | When recording single cell activity there is an additional question : how do you know that the changes detected by an experimenter are detectable by other parts of the brain ? |
| 6 | Just what do you do when the neighbours become difficult to live with . |
| 7 | " What will you do if the police come ? " |
| 8 | And do you care if the pigeons sit in the trees ? |
| 9 | Did you say that the ratepayers approved ? |
| 10 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
| 11 | Should one assume that the parties take notice in the original position of their own fallibility , and agree on constitutional arrangements that will be self-correcting if it turns out that the fundamental beliefs concerning human nature , on which their substantive principles of justice are based , turn out to be wrong , or not ? |
| 12 | Can we start when the others come back ? |
| 13 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 14 | … but how did they feel when the covers came off ? |
| 15 | How would they fare if the decisions had to be made in split seconds ? |
| 16 | Adam heard him curse and the others laugh at his misfortune . |
| 17 | It the method you used in those days did tha did they change as the years went on or , or |
| 18 | The second thing was that almost never did it matter since the whips ran the show . |
| 19 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 20 | Only then did it emerge that the settlers did not really know what they intended to do . |
| 21 | Corbett let it drop as the trumpets brayed again and royal serjeants-at-arms , staves in their hands , moved into the hall and began to impose order . |
| 22 | Does he realise that the islanders have run the ferry for many years and that until this year they received not a penny of subsidy , unlike the Scottish ferries ? |
| 23 | I 've heard them say if the owners gave them their fare home from Lowestoft to Darsham , that 's all they had . |
| 24 | Let us suppose that the tiles have numbers 1 , 2 , 3 , … 8 , and that the goal is the configuration where the empty space is in the middle . |
| 25 | Let us suppose that the animals contest a resource which is worth W points to the winner , and zero to the loser . |