Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] be [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature ( especially Macdonald 's 1904 account ) is full of references to women 's " pessimistic and listless " attitude to the fight for higher wages , but as we have already noted , women were often inclined to agree that they were not doing the " full job " , a view in which they were daily fortified by both masters and men . |
| 2 | He paused just long enough for her to wonder if he was about to do the decent thing and invite her to join him . |
| 3 | I want to see if he 's actually doing anything . |
| 4 | But that 's not to say that we 're not doing a reasonably good job on the whole ! |
| 5 | And just to actually formalise they 've laid out the plan to say that we are actually doing , we are aware that this does n't combine and we are doing something about it . |