Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah I just it just seems to me such a complete and utter waste of of , his time primarily for fifteen , I mean this being identified a year earlier which we reckon it was you would think that even given all the red tape and everything else
2 Because of the slimness of their bodies it means a shoal of bream , particularly when resting between feeding times , can pack quite tightly together and become a much smaller target than they would present if rotundly shaped .
3 And she also felt slightly nervous lest the large house should suddenly disgorge many other hidden residents , for what would she do if suddenly confronted , at one go , with Amelia , Magnus , Gabriel , and Annunciata , and all their varying wives and husbands ?
4 If this could happen with the CEDA merely exerting pressure upon the government from outside , the Socialist and Republican left wondered , what would the CEDA do if actually admitted to the cabinet ?
5 Working together , we must design and gradually put into place a new architecture for a new era .
6 But he would n't answer and only shifted , rattling the chain .
7 ‘ I do not believe that mathematically constructed pacts and alliances are the way forward either for Liberal Democrats or for others .
8 I wondered who the young girl was , acting the doe for Henry 's buck , but I decided not to wait and see and promptly fled .
9 At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used .
10 Maincrop potatoes , preferably unwashed , will keep if properly stored .
11 The animals will become as well fitted as they can be to the local conditions .
12 Hopefully as we improve our business , we may indeed see TV advertising in future years and we hope that we will become as well known as IBM , 3M or ICI . ’
13 Maybe this annual event will become as well known for rare and fine records as it is for books .
14 In this guise , the computer 's role was to deliver machine-readable information that would supplement that normally found by students in printed form or received by them in the shape of lectures and seminars .
15 They function as a spurious pattern into which the narrative might slide if so allowed .
16 Local banks faced massive demands for withdrawals which they could not possibly meet and promptly declared several bank holidays in a row .
17 At night it was covered with film which made it sweat and again preserved the dampness .
18 To the east of the Elbe the western demand for grain and timber had helped create and then kept in place a series of societies based upon the feudal manorial order of lords and serfs .
19 In terms of an automatic ‘ welfare consensus ’ , the social contours of British society have been altered irrevocably , partly by the Thatcher revolution , partly by deeper economic trends , which Thatcherism did not create but successfully harnessed to its political project .
20 He heard a pheasant call and almost called back from habit .
21 One thing one thing we could do is erm reduce or not not photo-reduce but just cut out the middle of a sheet of the headed notepaper , then you get two two ha er two A five things but that way round .
22 Transmission will stop only after the XOFF character has been recognised and , since the Z88 has an input buffer , this can only happen after previously received characters have been processed .
23 But Earls Court only holds 20,000 and Maine Road football stadium had a capacity of 50,000 , so people looking at the crowds at Manchester always saw one empty or thinly populated stand .
24 They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front .
25 Erm but I think you will find that well covered in Arnold 's book .
26 I know I did in some some detail , particularly in the theory elements , which is n't in Arnold 's book , but er I think you 'll find that well covered there .
27 As he knew there would be no uncertainty about accepting the admission fees from the audience , he told them he would not accept and instead negotiated a nominal fee which at least kept the dancers in work .
28 Formal condolences , he thought , were never easy to speak or accept and usually sounded either banal or insincere .
29 The sun would still rise and still set regardless of the fact that she would never see him again .
30 Again Yorkshire and Humberside er Scotland and Wales tending to lead that erm all of them as I said have got strong output trends erm in terms of Yorkshire and Humberside the orders er seem to be very much domestic rather than export but widely spread between sectors which gives
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