Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's told you that you 're not , we 're not getting a fair share of the business with him , but the figures I see do n't do n't say that at all |
| 2 | do n't no do n't say that to her or I 'll be in the dog house |
| 3 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 4 | The young boy did not appear after about September , but as the winters were so severe on the moors Ackroyd was not surprised . |
| 5 | Given the diversity of tribunals , commissions , authorities , ministers and inquiries which constitute our administrative system , it would be surprising if we did not conclude that in some instances the rational basis test was the correct stance and in others a test of substitution of judgment . |
| 6 | He added that while the evangelicals had their part in the Church he did not think that on the whole they had the qualities suitable for being bishops . ’ |
| 7 | No longer would a viewer pay for what he/she did not watch or for a service which he/she did not use . |
| 8 | Wycliffe did not answer and after a pause Maurice went on : ‘ What will happen now ? ’ |
| 9 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 10 | His mother was tight-fisted with the money from the brewery and he did not marry until after her death . |
| 11 | And yet there is his tribute , as late as the Pisan years , to Blunt ; there is the fact that his friendship with Yeats did not end except with Yeats 's death ; and there is above all the fact that his disenchantment with mass democracy kept pace with Yeats 's , and culminated for him as for Yeats in the false alternative of Fascism . |
| 12 | Again , she did not sleep and for once was glad when Mr Landor called out , cursing the heat and wanting cold , cold water at once — even seeing to the old man 's wants was preferable to lying awake worrying . |
| 13 | Stools with very large diameters , very hard stools , and stools that clogged the toilet were reported significantly more commonly in both groups of children who did not recover than in the recovered group ( p<0.02 ) . |
| 14 | Ltd. v. United Dominions Trust Ltd. ( 1988 C.A. ) the buyer had discovered that the car had a leak but did not discover until after the contract the gravity of the leak or that it was incurable . |
| 15 | ‘ Before dinner , and did not return until after Prime this morning when we heard of Sir Ralph 's death . |
| 16 | For example , the program did not specify that in the year 1815 a battle would be fought near Waterloo and that the French would be defeated , but only that man is aggressive by nature , that he is condemned to wage war and that technical progress would make war more and more terrible . |
| 17 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 18 | Melissa touched her arm ; still she did not move but as if a tap had been opened , tears spilt from her eyes and began streaming down her face . |
| 19 | The French police said the number they had called did not exist but in fact it was a special number allocated to the DGSE . |
| 20 | Jackson and Robinson found that the hoped for reduction in social divisiveness and the wider range of educational opportunity following the introduction of comprehensive education did not materialise because of sub-group norms and emotional upset at being away from home . |
| 21 | He also supported a catholic Church council presided over by Caesarius of Arles at Agde in 506 , and he approved the holding of another council in the following year , although it did not meet because of the king 's defeat and death at the hands of Clovis . |
| 22 | But Modigliani did not forget and in 1915 , when Indenbaum met him in Montparnasse , looking pale and unshaven , Modi came up to him and said in a hoarse voice , ‘ I 'm going to paint your portrait . ’ |
| 23 | The DSS argued that intention did not matter and under legal aid regulations they were entitled to treat Mr Saunders as having a notional £407,000 . |
| 24 | I pointed out that I did not limp or at least not so much that anyone had previously noticed . |
| 25 | Although the Dwarfs often tried to recapture Karak Eight Peaks they did not succeed until about the Imperial year 2470 , when Belegar established a fortified bridgehead in the old citadel . |
| 26 | Consequently , it has been suggested that Aldfrith did not succeed until after 14 December 685 . |
| 27 | Regular air services , by aeroplane , did not start until after the First World War . |
| 28 | As the Superintendent put it , ‘ Rehabilitation means learning to work ’ , which included work which they did not like or to which they were not suited . |
| 29 | A modest upturn in rig move activity did not occur until towards the year end and competition was aggressive . |
| 30 | Other than in Ipswich , where the WEA branch was among the small group of vigorous , active and well-organised centres in the District , there appeared to be little prospect for development without LEA-funded support in the pre-war years and , as in West Suffolk , the development of a substantial WEA presence did not occur until after the 1939–45 war . |