Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candles burned on the table where they were to dine and as she sat down at the table she banished the sob for evermore . |
| 2 | Her explanation : ‘ He was going to tour but when it got closer he realised he did n't want to . |
| 3 | I mean the w the pelican crossing case started with , when I was a councillor before nineteen eighty eight an and it 's a difficult one to detect but if you have n't occasionally come back late at night and there 's no traffic that you can spot it because no vehicle d detect vehicles when there are n't any . |
| 4 | They say that it 's easy to denigrate but when you hate as much as JOHN BITUMEN the problem is one of selection . |
| 5 | The dog is commanded to sit and if he does n't do it the first time , he is pushed gently into position . |
| 6 | I fetch them all in , stick them on clothes horse , they 're all round fire while I 'm on lollipop and then nip to shop and when I come in within half an hour they were bone dry . |
| 7 | Whether he had to walk or whether I do n't know . |
| 8 | The only question is whether they will tell the Labour leader what he wants to hear or whether he does not even know what he believes about the state of Britain after 13 years of Tory rule . |
| 9 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 10 | Actually it started to rain and when we had just got in the then we had to get out again . |
| 11 | But it is nice if they are asked , sometimes it 's sometimes they are just expected to do and if they have n't been officially asked . |
| 12 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 13 | The government guidance er in P G three makes it very clear now that it 's an issue we do have to address and if we do n't for land requirement . |
| 14 | He bellowed at the Sikhs to retreat and as they stumbled back under a cross-fire from the other side of the hall , two of them fell dead and another mortally wounded . |
| 15 | It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect . |
| 16 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 17 | Yes I have , I mean , firstly my colleagues have been very supportive , and my company , Sea Search Editions , but the er local businesses , the other local businesses have started to respond and although I 've only put , I 've got piles of envelopes at home to deliver still , I am getting some success , I 'm rapidly getting near that 512 pounds . |
| 18 | The result is that after a period of free movement the material begins to harden and if one goes on deforming it it will become brittle . |
| 19 | It 's not my job to decide but if we do well hopefully it ( his captaincy ) might continue . ’ |
| 20 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 21 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 22 | Her father 's conviction unhinged what precarious stability she 'd managed to maintain and after she came out of the psychiatric hospital she got in touch with me and I gave her a job . |
| 23 | If she did n't stop to rest she did n't have to think and if she did n't think she did n't have to feel and if she did n't have to feel she did n't have to grieve the death of her husband . |
| 24 | By refreshing the pixels with new instructions , images can be made to change and if they do so sufficiently quickly , one result can be animation , computer-generated motion . |
| 25 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 26 | graces could be an embarrassment , for he had no polite small-talk and did not pretend to any ; his visits to Windsor were an ordeal for guest and hosts alike , to him because he disliked formality and to his hosts because he was so difficult to entertain and because he did not mince words with the King . |
| 27 | Hawkbit was the last to return and as he came up Hazel set off at once . |
| 28 | And we 'll see what they have to say and if you feel so moved you can ring back and shout at them Katherine . |
| 29 | This was not because I did n't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly . |
| 30 | Yet few educationists would argue that they do not figure in their overall goals for what they wish pupils to achieve or that they do not impinge fundamentally on pupils ' potential success or failure . |