Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More exactly , since these five writers differ not only from other New Critics but also among themselves , I shall for the sake of clarity and simplicity concentrate on two texts , Wimsatt 's The Verbal Icon and Brooks 's The Well-Wrought Urn , referring to the work of the others only insofar as it corroborates or develops what is said there . |
| 2 | Moreover , every member of every discipline has a right , even a duty , to challenge , disprove or modify what has earlier been agreed or just taken for granted . |
| 3 | However , they have never forgiven or forgotten what happened . |
| 4 | So , as soon as the misbehaviour begins , turn away or walk away from your child ; pretend not to see or hear what is going on ; say nothing and try not to show any expression at all ; resist getting into any debate , argument or discussion with your child while he or she is misbehaving . |
| 5 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 6 | In his early work at least , Popper emphasizes the role of decisions made on the part of individuals and groups of individuals to accept or reject what I have called observation statements , and what Popper refers to as ‘ basic statements ’ . |
| 7 | But then the peasants surely should be able to choose to accept or reject what the Party is trying to instil in a way . |
| 8 | Molassi did n't know or care what that meant . |
| 9 | Mr Ryan declined to name the embassies or the foreign countries he had approached or to specify what sums had been raised . |
| 10 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 11 | But whether the separation of powers doctrine implies the existence of that degree of checking or controlling which has come to be known as judicial review in the American sense is not easy to decide . |
| 12 | Even some like-minded philosophers ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 2 ; Sanford , 1985 ) have been ready enough to take it that if c caused e in an ordinary situation then it is true , as we have it in ( 1 ) , that if c had n't occurred , neither would e , but they have omitted or denied what we now have in ( 3 ) , that it is also true that if or since c occurred , so did e . |
| 13 | Freedom of expression was treated in the same way : ‘ Any man may … say or write whatever he likes , subject to the risk of , it may be , severe punishment if he publishes any statement ( either by word of mouth , in writing or in print ) which he is not legally entitled to make ’ . |
| 14 | Possibly , Louis had in mind the old proverb : ‘ It is better to think what we say than to say what we think . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ After I had been criticised for employing ‘ Lady Merchiston ’ and ‘ your ladyship ’ , I finally found that compromise which she accepted . |
| 16 | The ability to modify and alter what has gone before is therefore a necessary part of any system . |
| 17 | ‘ Black people are the original people of the Earth , no one could exist on the planet without us and we must wake up , to struggle and do what we have to do to come into power , ’ announces Chester , striding across the stage , as the audience cheers . |
| 18 | we 've finally won and got what we wanted . |
| 19 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 20 | The latter measure made it worthwhile for the Americans to try and do what the British had failed at , making British films which would go down well in America . |
| 21 | The desire to gain affection and approval from its owner can be a prime motivator for the horse to try and do what we ask of it . |
| 22 | To try and do what makes me happy , dress in a way that makes me happy . |
| 23 | The rest of those in the room have to try and do what the leader does as fast as possible afterwards , but without making obvious who the leader is . |
| 24 | You just have to try and do what got you good results in the first place . |
| 25 | You 've got to try and guess what 's going to happen in three , four or five years ' time . |
| 26 | Too young for you even to try and explain what you were doing , how important it was and how much it took out of you . |
| 27 | One has to try and explain what it is we are about and why we 're doing it and , if necessary , perhaps point out a few distinctions that may exist , for instance , between the professional and the amateur scene , not that I like using those words because I think they 're fraught with all sort of potential misunderstandings . |
| 28 | Against the Director 's advice , he 'd decided to despatch Sylvia into occupied France to try and discover what had happened to them . |
| 29 | Using this method archaeologists have already discovered medieval graves buried under a car park , now they 're extending the search around the blackfriars friary to try and discover what how much more of the city 's history is hidden away under concrete : |
| 30 | 1 Next time you admit a patient use the information you gain about his home circumstances and your knowledge about the operation he is to undergo to try and decide what care he might need when he leaves hospital . |