Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Chancellor is ploughing £4 billion into industry to help pull it out of the doldrums . |
| 2 | The Christian Democrats and Socialists did not relish the idea of Cold War in Spring 1947 but their liberal-democratic sensibilities and need for US financial aid helped push them towards co-operation with America ( whose support was also vital in resolving the future of western Germany ) . |
| 3 | he was a different child when he got back , the break did do him good and , and thoroughly enjoyed it |
| 4 | In truth this troupe did not receive the idolatry that his juveniles had aroused the previous year , but they must have pulled up their silk stockings because when they went on tour later one reviewer did describe them as : |
| 5 | The presbytery having dealt with him to bring him to the conviction of the evil of the said practice did appoint him to be publickly rebuked two several Lord 's days in the Kirk of Kilarrow and Kilmeny . |
| 6 | The presbytery having dealt with him to bring him to the conviction of the evil of the said practice did appoint him to be publickly rebuked two several Lord 's days in the Kirk of Kilarrow and Kilmeny . |
| 7 | I have a cup of tea do think he 's on holiday . |
| 8 | You w if your d wheel does move it wo n't move far . |
| 9 | If a car does approach you and you are threatened — scream as loud as you can and run in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | But its nakedness does make it appear extremely ugly to many cat enthusiasts and does not seem to compensate for its oddity-value . |
| 11 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 12 | Christian Aid does support it in some places , and perhaps should look harder for others . |
| 13 | put my meat in freezer let get it for week |
| 14 | A large crowd of spectators from the corner pub helped drag him out of the mud . |
| 15 | ‘ How about Communists in government ? ’ suggested a friend to Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin , who was looking round for an issue to help get him re-elected . |
| 16 | You would not expect a well-made machine like this to be light , and at 2.8kg ( 6.2lb ) it is n't , so you need the two handles moulded into the case of the machine to help hold it . |
| 17 | As the bulbs begin to swell , expose the tops to the sun to help ripen them to a golden colour . |
| 18 | Although never a trouble-maker , Trevor 's drinking did get him into strife — and jail — on occasions . |
| 19 | But you ca n't love words without appreciating these aspects , and it would be a more civilised world if more of those who have to use words extensively in their work did love them . |
| 20 | In the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there is no explicit discussion of the Oedipus complex , though later footnotes added to the work do mention it . |
| 21 | But the power/ knowledge assumptions of his work do place him rather uncomfortably close to his post-structuralist prima-facie opponents . |
| 22 | ‘ The gate guard did say he saw a blanc leave shortly before the explosion . ’ |
| 23 | The ‘ Roman style ’ was not , of course , created by the Council of Trent though the Council did give it a partial façade of quasi-homophonic simplicity . |
| 24 | are , are out , are out now , in , in relation to consultation and user groups and their re or representative organizations , have been asked to comment in relation to the whole process before we go , we get to Panel and P and R er , so that we get , and then full Council , so we will get some indication , and twenty six particularly , so that , maybe those members in the last er , er , Council do realize they might have got , we might have got our fingers burnt in relation to this particular issue . |
| 25 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 26 | It was fairly obvious from the noise coming from behind me that the man in question did remember him fairly clearly . |
| 27 | If you sign the document in your own home , as you would do with a doorstep salesman , er then the law does give you a chance to change your mind , although I hope for goodness sake you would all be very wary about signing any kind of legal document thrust under your nose from a doorstep salesman . |
| 28 | But if you did that the law does give you what they call a cooling off period . |
| 29 | Where the Act does apply it seeks to regulate all the different types of exclusion clause which may be found in a contract . |
| 30 | The boats are blue , the nets are black , and the whole scene does remind me a little of the Adriatic , even if not precisely of Venice . |