Example sentences of "[verb] [vb mod] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean let's take one er because of the hyper- inflation in Venezuela you pay fifty percent on debt there . |
| 2 | Simply to observe that a job is running late and the profit margin is being squeezed will achieve nothing . |
| 3 | Where by the order a party is first ordered to do the act , and there is then added a clause in the order that in default of so doing specific consequences will follow , the part that directs the act to be done must use one or other of the above forms of wording . |
| 4 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 5 | After some discussion we have decided to open two separate funds which we hope will give everyone who wishes to make a donation a choice . |
| 6 | But I wish to relate to the council a particular episode , which I hope will convey something to those people who are perhaps still wavering erm , and whilst we all have principle stands on issues it behoves us as members to consider the views of our constituents and the sorts of things that take place in our wards . |
| 7 | The Council I hope will do something about it , but that 's up to the Council , I do n't have the authority to do that . ’ |
| 8 | These things do n't really lose their snap and savour without smoking , but thinking that they might do can distract one from enjoying them properly . |
| 9 | But I knew that the sounds I had heard could have nothing to do with a servant 's dream . |
| 10 | ANYONE with $130m to spare could do something sensible , like buy Cray Research , an American supercomputer maker , or Vickers , a venerable British engineering company . |
| 11 | What is offered may owe something to Brentano 's familiar characterization of consciousness . |
| 12 | The way we speak about Wimpey and the impression we give may influence someone who is thinking of buying a Wimpey home , negotiating with Wimpey Construction , buying materials from Wimpey Minerals or applying for a course in one of our craft training centres . |
| 13 | Firstly , the style used should reflect something of the period and quality of the chosen score ; secondly , the dance should reveal something of its technical construction ; thirdly , the movements should parallel the composer 's treatment and development of the various episodes and the orchestration . |
| 14 | He was neither forgiving nor generous because the heroic figure , the truly great man , having nothing to resent could have nothing to forgive . |
| 15 | Diane sat on the opposite side of the refectory table , watching him , chin in hand , as someone with nothing better to do might watch somebody mending a clock . |
| 16 | I was a bit worried that the jolt it delivers would do something rather more permanent than give Mr Heron a deterrent shock , but apparently not . |
| 17 | But whoever was calling would know someone was here . |
| 18 | We know can do anything on CAD for you . |
| 19 | Saying a picture of somebody crying would make somebody gloomy is prescriptive. it could be just what a person needs to see because they would not feel alone , they could identify with it . |
| 20 | Who , who do you think would want one ? |
| 21 | I think the fact that the Japanese had surrendered must have something to do with it cos then they probably had a chance to attack the people who 'd er collaborated with the Japanese . |
| 22 | But he added : ‘ Displaying banners calling for the manager to be sacked will do nobody any good , and it is best that we all sit down and talk things over . ’ |
| 23 | Those workers who are subject to domestic outwork , seasonal working or extended subcontracting will secure none of the benefits of the much vaunted core workers ( Dore , 1973 ; McMillan , 1984 ) , yet it is upon their ‘ flexibility ’ that the system rests . |
| 24 | ‘ Peer pressure about not talking may have something to do with it . ’ |
| 25 | Reparation is the notion that people who have offended should do something to ‘ repair ’ the wrong they have done , and in so doing acknowledge the wrongness of their actions . |
| 26 | She told herself sternly that the time had passed when sympathy , hope , tender care , even love could have anything to do with the figure on the bed . |
| 27 | The side which lost were reprimanded for their weakness ; the side which won could have anything they wanted from new horses to new leaders . |
| 28 | Indeed , those Berliners to whom he spoke could see nothing but futility in an Anglo-German conflict over Poland . |
| 29 | Yeah that 's what I said he said no it did n't come from me he said but I think they did used to sell something like that . |
| 30 | Something you write could lose somebody their job … |