Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Of those firms which did possess such a strategy , a quarter had not reviewed it for more than two years , making it only mildly effective .
2 Er I myself and many others were here for two and a half years and I submit to you that this is a considerable portion of one 's adult lifetime and consequently , the experiences of the last three days have been very meaningful and very moving to those of us who did spend such a portion of our lives here in this place .
3 Then you obviously had a you did say such a lot of in the Radio Times somewhere I was reading today about er colours you wear .
4 But if you do have such a file , be warned — this command will overwrite it without asking you first !
5 If you do get such a change , then you must revise your drift allowance .
6 We did have all the posession without SOUNDING like there were any chances of note in the first half .
7 We do observe such a background of gamma rays : Fig. 7.5 shows how the observed intensity differs at different frequencies ( the number of waves per second ) .
8 In contrast , we do have such a concept .
9 Mind you , they did have all the satellite and all that did n't we ?
10 As we pass the finish line at the end of the first circuit , he lets go all the power in the car 's 333 bhp , the big bonnet lifts , the needle on the rev counter winds towards the red limit and , suddenly , your complacent reporter is hanging onto his seat-belt mounting with white knuckles , his notebook abandoned in the footwell .
11 If it did have such a cause of action , then the court would have power to award interest from the moment it arose by virtue of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 .
12 Jean-Claude Kausmann does n't get involved in laundering in his own home — but he does do all the shopping and cooking .
13 When I visit the veterans , they have such a wealth of experience to tell of the old days , some I may add , from before I was born , and it does seem such a shame they never get an invite to look behind the scenes of a present day JS branch .
14 Ryan 's proposal for a program for automatic story generation which fulfils her three criteria of creativity , aesthetic awareness and understanding will probably remain beyond the boundaries of feasibility for a long time , but it does demonstrate both the need for a greater contribution of ideas from poetics and narratology to developments in artificial intelligence , and the insights that can be gained from the attempt to shape one 's ideas about narrative into a form that can be learnt and applied by computers .
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