Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no point at all in starting to do something you hate or which you find boring because you will never stick to it . |
| 2 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 3 | During the last year of her life , when she knew herself to be mortally ill , she resolutely avoided seeing anyone she knew . |
| 4 | Giving very young children too much choice over when to get up , what to wear or what they eat for breakfast can be a recipe for disaster — acrimonious arguments , delays and tantrums . |
| 5 | However , in the search for origins employing such a term as Welfare State may obscure a real understanding of what the individuals at the time intended or what they created . |
| 6 | That wee lad , and then the one from called about two o'clock he says I says he 's not in so and I says he 's away to swim or something what time did he go at ? |
| 7 | The activity can be taken further by asking them to represent three key moments in a story line ( either one they have heard or one they have themselves developed through drama ) . |
| 8 | Stuart never makes me feel his pride is riding on whether we do what I suggest or what he suggests . |
| 9 | The cars would pass and re-pass each other in a game of motorway weaving , the sons manoeuvring their powerful Mercedes around each other until the women eventually objected or they themselves tired of the sport . |
| 10 | In taking into account the user of the vehicle which they actually found or which they inferred from the practice of the previous owner it seems to me they did not err . |
| 11 | It takes a great deal of sensitivity to provide activities which stimulate the patient 's interest , without exhausting him or making him frustrated if he can not achieve what he wants or what you hope for . |
| 12 | As we engage with the culture in which we are located or which we are seeking to reach , we need to keep a whole range of questions continuously in mind : What elements in this culture reflect gospel values and should consequently be highlighted and affirmed ? |
| 13 | Do the garden or walking or whatever it is . |
| 14 | By consequentialist he means that the moral value or justification of any action is to be found in its consequences , and by eudaemonistic he means that actions are justified when , as a consequence of those actions , people get what they want or what they prefer . |
| 15 | Well another two years car then I 'm free to have what I actually want or what I would like . |
| 16 | ‘ But why , ’ he insisted , ‘ should you have supposed that what you saw concerned the unicorn ? ’ |
| 17 | I suggest that what we are really trying to do is to re-establish contact with the earth spirit through visiting sites , to emphasize pilgrimage rather than tourism . |
| 18 | Tracey and Morrison suggest that what she was trying to achieve in bringing the prosecution ‘ lay not in punishing Lemon , nor in a sense bringing back to life the blasphemy laws . |
| 19 | I suggest that what I have summarized in this paragraph is what lies behind Kuhn 's claim that rival paradigms are ‘ incommensurable ’ . |
| 20 | going to do anything , or are suggest that they you know , do the bare nece the bare necessity of work . |
| 21 | Equally regrettably , they suggest that she who ( presumably ) approved them is not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine : one , moreover , who has been impressed by too many drives down The Bishop 's Avenue , where Hampstead 's temples to new money are built , en route to the Finchley constituency . |
| 22 | How do we know that what we 're drawing into our lungs is n't doing us harm . |
| 23 | In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not . |
| 24 | If he had , he would know that what he has said is not right . |
| 25 | The sufferer must know that what you say is the whole of what you believe and want to transmit . |
| 26 | Do you not know that what you belittle by the name tree is but the mere four-dimensional analogue of a whole multidimensional universe which — no , I can see you do not . |
| 27 | If you know that he is righteous you will know that everything everyone who does what is right has been born of him . |
| 28 | Then if we are taxed with what we said about someone , we shall be calm for we shall know that everything we said was benevolent . |
| 29 | Did n't you know that everything you learn , and everything you suffer , will come in useful at some time in your life ? " |
| 30 | Hopefully , in the near future , I will say that I am cured , but I do know that whatever I have learned about myself , through the Alexander Technique , will always be with me in the future and will help me through any other crisis in the time to come . |