Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 2 | I would n't normally buy my wife flowers unless I was late or had done something wrong . |
| 3 | Right erm good that 's tidied everything up then . |
| 4 | Having something to do was better than sitting doing nothing other than wait for the first shell . |
| 5 | my personal salvation history ( it can be both encouraging and revealing to review one 's life journey and trace the different stages within it . |
| 6 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 7 | He was very tired but had had lots of fun |
| 8 | Morse had looked quickly round the flat but had found nothing much to engage his interest . |
| 9 | The Italian Minister was unable to promise more than having implemented one out of two by the end of the year . |
| 10 | Mike 's too angry and upset to do anything . |
| 11 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 12 | A tiny dignified man wearing a cloak and headdress , they had thought him both tragic and romantic but had known nothing about the background of the struggle . |
| 13 | It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria . |
| 14 | But she did not think about giving anything to Finn ; he lived , now , in a country where presents and affection and loving and giving meant nothing . |
| 15 | So a £4 billion industry can use the product of a £250m one and need pay nothing for the privilege . |
| 16 | It is in fact to be very dogmatic and to try to say something about every other way of knowledge , and every other thing to be known . |
| 17 | I was sure when I started my research that I would be able to say that governments were greedy and liked to sell lots of arms to countries who were very poor and who only needed basic things like food and shelter . |
| 18 | Convocation must be constructive and strive to get something out of the Alumni for everyone in return for the demands it will make ! |
| 19 | It is always easier to stick to the tried and true than to risk doing something different . |
| 20 | He would become irate and irrational , shouting at Caroline and me and from time to time even at the nurses , who were patient and sweet and had done nothing to deserve it . |