Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [pron] [verb] " 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 | During the last year of her life , when she knew herself to be mortally ill , she resolutely avoided seeing anyone she knew . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Stuart never makes me feel his pride is riding on whether we do what I suggest or what he suggests . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ But why , ’ he insisted , ‘ should you have supposed that what you saw concerned the unicorn ? ’ |
| 11 | I suggest that what I have summarized in this paragraph is what lies behind Kuhn 's claim that rival paradigms are ‘ incommensurable ’ . |
| 12 | going to do anything , or are suggest that they you know , do the bare nece the bare necessity of work . |
| 13 | If he had , he would know that what he has said is not right . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The sufferer must know that what you say is the whole of what you believe and want to transmit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Did n't you know that everything you learn , and everything you suffer , will come in useful at some time in your life ? " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I never let nobody know that I I walked home . |
| 20 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 21 | To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse . |
| 22 | For one thing , he found it hard to accept that anyone who lacked the advantage of being American could pose much of a threat , and for another , he needed every scrap of material he could get from any quarter , even the newspapers , to sustain the nonstop barrage of reports he was firing into headquarters . |
| 23 | I am prepared to accept that anyone who knows me may dislike me , but when someone who can not dislike me because they do n't know me , attacks me , I collapse inside , I lose eloquence , I get frightened , sometimes I cry . |
| 24 | It was pointed out that candidates obtaining low marks in public examinations were demonstrating more of what they did not know than what they did know . |
| 25 | Thus , it is reasonable to argue , instead of trying to determine what class is by theoretical disputation , let us recognise that what we have here is a concept which probably indicates something significant about social behaviour , but precisely what that is is not clear . |
| 26 | However , the lady in question corrected this error , explaining that what they had seen on the X-ray was actually her ‘ pessaire anti-conceptionnel ’ . |
| 27 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 28 | Some religious traditions emphasise that certain events in the world can be considered to be God 's actions , and have claimed that what we know of God is derived from our interpretation of these events . |
| 29 | The Collector had shown such enthusiasm for its hollow wonders that he himself had been tempted and misled ; he had allowed his own small stirrings of doubt , which he recognized now to have been stirrings of conscience , to be smothered . |
| 30 | He waves his fist in the air , and I realise that what he sees is three men on the grass , with a fourth going through their pockets . |