Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did you do to let the thoughts remain or to rid yourself of them ? |
| 2 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 3 | It has the power to suspend or expel them from college . |
| 4 | Like Matthew , we will keep creating realities which coax or provoke us into feeling anger — by being hurt , by suffering from injustice , by seeing a world full of hatred and cruelty . |
| 5 | It 's not been for us to tell people what they should or should n't eat or do anything with , because the , in , in one respect that 's a nann nannying attitude from er , whether it 's the legislators saying we 're not going to approve the right legislation so that you have that information , but on the other hand by manufacturers and others saying you trust us . |
| 6 | The makeshift bomb lobbed into an upstairs bedroom was packed with nuts , bolts and glass in an attempt to kill or maim anyone in the room . |
| 7 | As time goes on the need for such support will , obviously , diminish — it 's more than likely that your staff will become more conversant with the product than the person who either sold or trained them on it . |
| 8 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 9 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 10 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 11 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 12 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 13 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 14 | There are eight shades of Varnish or Cream which can be mixed or applied one on top of another |
| 15 | Hindus revere nature but never feel any need to marshal or mould it into a design of their own : a banyan tree will almost be encouraged to spread its drooping creepers into the middle of any village market , or to block any backwoods track . |
| 16 | Check the prices against what you can buy or install yourself before ordering . |
| 17 | The blastocyst will now implant or embed itself in the endometrium , losing its membrane . |
| 18 | But we do n't need or love you as an organ gone sour that stinks in the wind . |
| 19 | It was her apartment , paid for with her own money , and she did n't need or want him in her life any more . |
| 20 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 21 | They move around the tank , scattering the smaller fish in all directions , although they do n't attack or harm them in any way . |
| 22 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 23 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 24 | Community Care Grants are to enable people to establish or maintain themselves in the community rather than having to be in hospitals , nursing homes and residential care homes etc . |
| 25 | You must not subsequently display or offer it for sale as your own work ! |
| 26 | If this has no effect , try expressing some milk before the morning feed ; refrigerate or freeze it for use later . |
| 27 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 28 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 29 | 5 Corps was still under orders not to provoke or resist them by force , for the reasons Macmillan had explained on his visit on 13 May , and on the evening of 14 May Gen McCreery confirmed this in a message to Gen Keightley [ KP 106 ] : agreement confirmed that Maj Dubajic would remain at Kappel with Lt Lochhead of 6 SF ( SOE ) to make arrangements for the hand-over of further 10,000 Croats by 23 May making a total of 13,000 Croats to be repatriated . |
| 30 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |