Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , apart from one or two specialist applications , we tend to find that we simply do n't need them ! |
| 2 | ‘ I want to know if you ever wrote to him and asked him to meet you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't a clue why you behave in the way you appear to behave and I honestly do n't give a damn … ’ |
| 4 | It 's just a hobby I really enjoy , journalism is the job I really want to do and you never know drama could come in handy one day ! |
| 5 | It was and they say go and we always run out and hide a find some decent position . |
| 6 | Unless there are any questions you want to ask before we even start . |
| 7 | Its continued presence always surprised him since it served no purpose that he could see except symbolically to cut off the headland and to give travellers pause to consider whether they really wanted to continue . |
| 8 | John 's already stolen my thunder on the straw poll erm that I was going to do but suffice to say that we normally do that at these types of seminars and there 's always a few people in the room who put their hands up and say they 've got more than ten data sources in their organization . |
| 9 | We could also set up an effect-to-cause study in which we match two groups for which the response measurements differ and look to see if they also differ in some previous X-type phenomenon . |
| 10 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a feature we always enjoy compiling as we never fail to learn something from it . |
| 12 | All one can say is that discreet inquiries in the neighbourhood produced nothing , save to show that he certainly appears not to be in the flat now . " |
| 13 | I also think that we must be the place where programmes get made because nobody else wants to make them , nobody else would make them . |
| 14 | If , however , you get elected and you then have to carry out your policies , then of course you face the real world and the you ca n't have your cake and eat it problem . |
| 15 | Erm , if a couple decide to have children , they have children for life , it 's until they erm , get married and I really think we 're given too much of this me , me and my fulfilment of what you can be , and you forget that there 's two people there , or three people who are dependent on you . |
| 16 | They therefore tend to believe that they also have minimal risk of addiction . |
| 17 | And all the time the slang and colloquial idioms of the ordinary English speaker continue to evolve as they always have . |
| 18 | It follows that if A agrees to sell specific goods to B which both A and B believe to exist but which never have existed , section 6 can not apply . |
| 19 | Well well with most word processors , you do n't use return , you just keep typing and it automatically says well I wo n't fit this . |
| 20 | Resist him and keep remembering that he only wants you to further his ambitions … |
| 21 | The snake caught him again savagely round the legs with its jaws , but he managed to tear himself away and keep running until he finally passed out from shock and blood-loss . |
| 22 | Yes keep working while I just explain that if you 've not had it before . |
| 23 | I do suggest that you never lead the mare in or out without having her on a lungeing cavesson and rope or a bridle with reins … a headcollar and rope is INSUFFICIENT . |
| 24 | Eight people each with different views who fail to cohere or who simply proceed by letting the majority view prevail ( as in voting ) are a group ( ie a collection of individuals ) not a team . |
| 25 | Both these examples raise issues other than the question of whether support is one-way , but they do indicate that there certainly have been historical circumstances in which people have felt that the requirement to provide financial support to parents , in circumstances where they were apparently unable to reciprocate , went well beyond their normal expectations of support between kin . |
| 26 | A miracle is called for , but miracles do happen and we just need to find the villa , that 's all . |
| 27 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 28 | However , mass treatment in many countries involves distributing a five-day course of tablets which the recipients usually fail to complete because they often feel better after one or two days . |
| 29 | It would be inept , rude , insubordinate , or whatever , simply to say ‘ I agree ’ or nod to show that one also wished that the window was shut . |
| 30 | I 've realised that you neither required nor merited consideration . |