Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fifth hurdle was n't quite as smooth as I would have wished , but then I let go from the 200 metres mark . |
| 2 | ‘ The fifth hurdle was n't quite as smooth as I would have wished , but then I let go from the 200 metres mark . |
| 3 | But I do go to the Methodist Chapel in Cotherstone as often as I can and , now and again , support various chapel functions in other places when asked . |
| 4 | county and see whether the family wish currently if it would not benefit from er er being carried er in certain areas and I do apologise for the Chief Fire Officer if throw away to Martin er in any way being thought of as no regrets I am sure . |
| 5 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 6 | ‘ All I do know about the Spanish Civil War is it left a lot of scars that never healed . |
| 7 | What I do say to the honourable gentleman is his argument is rubbish , bad for the third world , bad for the people of Europe and outside Mr Deputy Speaker I 'd be glad to give him his answer although quite rightly to say I ca n't give it here . |
| 8 | Yes well , erm I think I mean I I did check with the various trustees last week and the current position is erm there was basically a four hundred and sixty million that er that was the original missing figure , to which now goes back over two years er recoveries have come to into over a hundred thousand now with the |
| 9 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 10 | It 's a pure technicality , Mr chairman , but I did ask at the previous meeting er , that the erm , director of property services respond to me on a matter relating to Wootton Bassett magistrate 's court , If we have such a large amount of money that we can spend I think the questions that I posed then , er are relevant and I would appreciate a reply . |
| 11 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |
| 12 | Only if none of these targets is available will I open fire on the big battalions with cannon . |
| 13 | Stamp duties , which did fall on the luxury consumption of the better-off , made up only 13 per cent of indirect taxation in 1800 and less than half as much of total revenue . |
| 14 | The list developed for the study reported here ( Woll , 1983 ) contains in its full form 257 items , many of which do appear in the other lists . |
| 15 | Bureaucratic factors have to be considered alongside substantive considerations which do apply to the individual subjects of the law or any other authority . |
| 16 | Here a necessitated event is of course to be understood as an event which does stand in the given relation to some or other antecedent . |
| 17 | The thought that the world might have been different in a certain respect is taken to be the thought that there is a possible world which does differ from the actual world in that respect ( and probably others too ) . |
| 18 | Even if most people will at some time in their lives live in a family which does conform to the cereal-packet image , they will also necessarily spend much of their lives outside it . |
| 19 | The relief of the suffering which does occur in the longer run is the more stable and fundamental as a result of the premature cure being avoided . |
| 20 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
| 21 | We who do battle with the weekly deadline . ’ |
| 22 | And it will be a priority of the AEA Board to ensure that any AEA employees who do move into the private sector do so on terms that are no less favourable than those they currently enjoy . |
| 23 | jobs to go around the people who do migrate to the urban skilled enough to jobs . |
| 24 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 25 | But before you do think of the following : |
| 26 | ‘ Oh Lydia , ’ said Betty , ‘ you do think of the weirdest things . ’ |
| 27 | If you do live in the same house as your landlord and he or she wants you to leave the property then he or she must still give you at least four weeks Notice to Quit on a special form . |
| 28 | What you do have on the furthest extent of Nottingham , are the council estates of Rise Park , Bestwood Park , and Top Valley in the North . |
| 29 | So far as to my specific erm , question is on B one , on the white paper , or other target , the public question , thirteen thousand , five hundred pounds of money you do say in the subsequent paragraph , this is to provide public question time at Council meetings . |
| 30 | However , she did go into the famous Bewley 's Coffee House , for the equally famous potato soup . |