Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 2 | The only county on our border without it is Gloucestershire and we 've got one , two , or three areas of our three of our districts , of which two are just poised to get designation , and you 're now beginning to scream and you and your group are beginning to scream about West Oxfordshire and its a situation that you have contributed to . |
| 3 | Thus , while a Luxembourger , an Irishman , a Dutchman or a Belgian may see a European superstate as giving them a much larger stage on which to perform and one that would cost them nothing in sovereignty since what they have is already so diluted , to us it would mean the end of that independence which has allowed us to play a unique and continuing role in world affairs and to have this Gracious Speech setting out our parliamentary programme . |
| 4 | Gender divisions were an obvious and convenient division for teachers to use and one that was not contentious during most of the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Denis patiently instructed Joey in what to do and he and Michael kept him from talking too loudly . |