Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England 's bowlers clearly save their best deliveries for these five-minute breaks , so would more breaks mean more much-needed wickets for England ? |
| 2 | Lets hope so . |
| 3 | Lawrence runs away from us now , comes in to bowl to and that one he lets go outside is the right pronunciation , you giggle , you look at the B B C pronunciation . |
| 4 | He lets go suddenly and takes off Andrew 's shirt , throwing it quickly into the corner where his own shirt was thrown . |
| 5 | ( 57 ) By God , if he dares come here again , I 'll make him damned sorry he did . |
| 6 | According to John Herbert , who became second Secretary of State in 1600 , it had three principal functions : the business of the Queen , in which it ‘ doth handle principally questions and consultations of state ’ ; disputes between party and party , which might involve either criminal or civil suits or a mixture of the two ; and disputes ‘ wherein the Queen is a party ’ . |
| 7 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 8 | ‘ Methinks the lady doth protest too much ’ , ’ he quoted softly , a strange gleam in his vivid blue eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ Heaven alone knows — but — the lady doth protest too much , methinks . ’ |
| 10 | I might almost say an honoured guest " ( p. 69 ) , but these , and further modesty maxim violations now function as statements of the felicity conditions upon which he bases his threats : Anderson " doth protest too much " , however , and the forcefulness of his language is a far-from-convincing attempt to conceal his insecurity . |
| 11 | To Leslie Hills ( Points of View , 13 March ) I say , ‘ The lady doth protest too much ’ . |
| 12 | it probably does relate pretty well . |
| 13 | He does compare OK with May , Barrett ( as a full-back ) and Austin I suppose . |
| 14 | HOW DOES STRESS REALLY COME ABOUT ? |
| 15 | It does hurt so and I 'm not sure how much longer I can bear the pain . |
| 16 | Taking the election results as his guide , he should decide on a step-by-step approach , building on the fragile trust that does exist rather than risk another failure . |
| 17 | We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so . |
| 18 | So , briefly what does exist now ? |
| 19 | If the agent does exist then it must attack one of the two sub-divisions of the body 's immune system . |
| 20 | I 'll tell you what does exist though , piecemeal short-termism . |
| 21 | Such work as does exist usually approaches the issue by analysis of the language used by teachers and pupils in classroom exchanges ( Mitchell , 1985 ) and this too needs to be integrated in this whole topic of children 's language development . |
| 22 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 23 | The sociologically based interview has thus rather more to it than merely being a test of the reaction to Brand X. Here a difficulty does arise though , and it is best to face up to it right away . |
| 24 | If such a problem does arise there is naturally a heavy onus on the company to rectify the adverse conditions , and dismissal for sickness absence should only be a last resort . |
| 25 | Repeated official and unofficial enquiries have suggested that the foreign exporting sector buys very little that is of Irish manufacture , and even when it does buy locally it tends to buy low value-added goods , like packaging materials and industrial consumables . |
| 26 | ‘ Who does know then ? ’ |
| 27 | What he does describe well are the two faces of excellence as they have characterised JPL . |
| 28 | Corinth 's north-western interests were threatened more directly by the affair of Corcyra , which is one of the two ‘ alleged reasons ’ which Thucydides does describe fully . |
| 29 | Nonetheless Nykrog 's work does demonstrate substantially the extent to which these fabliaux support and respect relative status in the existing late-feudal social scale . |
| 30 | Tokay d'Alsace , or Pinot Gris , is aptly named gris as the skin colour of this grape does fall somewhere between black and white . |