Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Hazlitt , ‘ Man is the only species who can laugh or cry because he is the only being who knows the difference between what is and what should be ’ . |
| 2 | They never kill except for protection of their young , they do n't eat or drink unless they need to : that 's living in harmony . |
| 3 | Father said she 'd not eat or drink till she gave in ? |
| 4 | There is absolutely nothing you can not eat or drink if you want to . |
| 5 | Faye could not paint or draw while lying in bed , but in the mornings Belinda usually read to her for an hour while she rested her eyes , then left her alone for the remainder of the morning to rest or scribble ideas for future painting projects . |
| 6 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
| 7 | He did n't know or care whether Dickens liked this stuff , but he was damned certain he did n't . |
| 8 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 9 | That commitment can waver or disappear if the arguments of the philosopher or the historian appear to destroy its rational basis . |
| 10 | Thin or topped chip A lot of golfers will thin or top when they have to play a delicate shot over a hazard . |
| 11 | It is when we do not act and behave as Jesus ' followers that adultery can take place , followed by legal proceedings for divorce . |
| 12 | They 'll they 'll weld , they 'll weld together Robert and that 'll stiffen , stiffen and stiffen as the years go on . |
| 13 | Without Prince to carry loads , John Durbeyfield could not buy and sell as he used to . |
| 14 | Dem can buy an sell till dem gu to Hell |
| 15 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 16 | But heat-resistant hotelware , earthenware , crockery and china may be used provided it does not have metallic decoration which will blacken and spoil if used with microwave energy . |
| 17 | Other countries are not saying , ’ Let us wait and see if convergence happens ; let us wait and see whether performance improves . ’ |
| 18 | All I all I think I would say at this stage is let's wait and see whether the county and one district are in line on the question of the the new settlement . |
| 19 | He would wait and see if Mr McWhirter arrived , or if he would have to fill in . |
| 20 | Other countries are not saying , ’ Let us wait and see if convergence happens ; let us wait and see whether performance improves . ’ |
| 21 | Now Faldo and his European colleagues can only wait and see if the hard work and application pays off at the weekend . |
| 22 | Anyway I 'm not saying a word to him , I 'm gon na wait and see if and what he says because I say it 's making me angry . |
| 23 | We looked so thin on the ground , I thought we 'd sit and wait and see if everyone 's coming , but erm we 'll have to get started anyway . |
| 24 | well , like I 'd say I 'd go down to post office , I say no I 'll go with ya , it was raining last Thursday , I said no I 'll go with ya , so I said I 'll wait and see if it 'll , it 'll be fine , but he 's not like that he 's an old , I would n't , well |
| 25 | Old galvanized water tanks , glazed porcelain sinks ( Fig. 4a ) , or baths with their outlets plugged with putty are all extremely serviceable when sunk in the ground , although the first will corrode and leak unless protected initially with a good rubber-based paint . |
| 26 | One of the difficulties that the senior police officer must consider when deciding whether or not disruption is serious is that , if it seems likely that very large numbers of marchers will be involved , the strength of public support in favour of the particular cause must be weighed against the degree of disruption caused . |
| 27 | I mean , it was a windy day as well and I do n't think that helped because the wind was sort of blowing into the mike but er and when he took it to college there was this noise all the time , he must have had it clipped under here somewhere ! |
| 28 | Now , what 's a typical , who can tell me what the typical body language is that you would prese present or portray if you said I do n't know ? |
| 29 | A spokesman for the British Army of the Rhine would not confirm or deny whether the documents were genuine , saying yesterday : ‘ We do not comment about these matters . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We will have to wait until next month before we can confirm or deny whether this is so or make a more informed assessment , ’ he said . |