Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we , once we are out of feudalism and once we have political control we can dictate wherever we want to go and once we 've got full control we will go into socialism . |
| 2 | Today we all have access to the speed , warmth and comfort of cars , buses , trains and planes , if that is we have the money , if there is a service running when we want it to where we want to go and if there is n't already so much traffic ahead of us choking the roads , polluting the atmosphere that we wished we stayed at home . |
| 3 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 4 | And er y you sort of make your list of who has to go and where they 've to come from , take it into the office , and they organize it . |
| 5 | Also , the person asking for the review has to agree that if they lose they will pay the other side 's costs . |
| 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 | We will ensure that the ES is a well managed organisation , where people want to work and where they can realise their potential . |
| 8 | We will ensure that the ES is a well managed organisation , where people want to work and where they can realise their potential . |
| 9 | As a result of sharp cuts in state subsidies prices of essential goods doubled overnight , and increases in the prices of other goods were expected to outstrip that as they found true market levels . |
| 10 | The Purchaser wants to know that when he takes control of the Business at Completion , it accords with what he had previously been told . |
| 11 | They stopped to listen and as they did the knocking stopped . |
| 12 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 13 | Turning away from a regard that seemed faintly menacing , she tried to look as though she knew what she was doing as she rearranged some sweaters . |
| 14 | I do n't know whether they all want to play or whether your dad and granddad wants to stay and watch the football |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By now Kapuscinski is on his ‘ last legs ’ , and he telexes Warsaw to say that he wants to leave and that it is ‘ more or less clear ’ that ‘ the Angolans will win ’ . |
| 18 | To an extent you 're your own master … you can decide what you want to do and when you want to do it … it 's not like being at work when somebody rings you up and you 've got to go down and see them or you 've got to do this and that within half an hour . |
| 19 | I think there 's always exceptions , but I think you 've got to believe in yourself and go and do what you want to do and if you 're saying there 's opposition , there 's gon na be more opposition , if |
| 20 | Make sure that the software is compatible with the other applications you want to run and that it 's the genuine UK version , not a grey import . |
| 21 | Make sure that the software is compatible with the other applications you want to run and that it 's the genuine UK version , not a grey import . |
| 22 | When you get people on to a sort of Noddy Goes Selling course , which is the first one you come on , you are expected to believe that when you leave here anybody who does n't use T N T Express would be absolutely crazy , and that everybody you 're going to talk to is going to bite your arm off as long as you stay with your boyfriend . |
| 23 | It may seem obvious but some appear to forget that if you do n't understand what a question asks you have little chance of answering it ! |
| 24 | These involve the relationship between X and Y and other variables which might be operating ; they are designed to ensure that when we compare groups which differ on X , we are comparing like with like . |
| 25 | The two rows of upholstered seats facing each other were like a pair of matching beds , one for each so they would not again need to share except when they wanted to . |
| 26 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 27 | It stands to reason that if one is claiming to have discovered universal historical laws these should apply to very different societies . |
| 28 | It stands to reason that if you can eradicate the fear the nervousness will subside . |
| 29 | In the imperfect world , where things get misunderstood , a woman has to realise that when she returns from the kitchen with a toasted sandwich and her man barks , ‘ I said cheese and tomato , not just cheese ! ’ he is probably not so much worried about his stomach as about her hearing . |
| 30 | Mark passages to which you want to refer or where you wish to seek clarification . |