Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am almost tempted to produce some enormous prize for any bookseller who can furnish me with a list of the shortlisted titles , or even let me know if they have the winning title in stock : I feel confident that I would have no takers . |
| 2 | He continued as if she had n't spoken , his voice dropping to a level of intimacy that suddenly made it feel as though they were alone , not being listened to by thousands of people . |
| 3 | Though the effect is purely symbolic , even poetic , as well as chilling , much of its force depends on rapidly cutting away to Marion 's car being pulled out of the lake — a banal , everyday detail of the investigation that almost makes us doubt whether we really saw that skull , previously forced on the viewer with horrifying shock impact in the cellar scene . |
| 4 | The lack of a determiner before these nouns makes them generic , and so makes us feel that the human forces that impinge on Titus 's life are vague and insubstantial . |
| 5 | So psychology often binds us to our weaknesses and failure by showing us how to ‘ pass the buck ’ and so makes us believe that we should feel good when we have done so . |
| 6 | Anything which makes rigging and de-rigging more difficult increases the risk of someone getting tired of holding up a wing-tip and so letting it droop or even drop . |
| 7 | ‘ But we must try and see them — if only to let them know that we 're here , in the States , and that they have no need to worry about Emma and Sophie . ’ |
| 8 | If not does it mean that we only have Dorigo on the left . |
| 9 | What do the children know about the Hindu culture of their communities and how do they interpret and evaluate that knowledge ? |
| 10 | Well who are the Kuwaitis and how do they differ and how are they different from the Saudi Arabians and the southern Iraquis ? |
| 11 | ‘ And how do we know that everything in this dump has n't fallen off the back of a lorry ? ’ |
| 12 | How do you do and how do you do and how do you do again ! |
| 13 | ‘ And how do you check that the guest will be able to talk once he or she is on the show ? |
| 14 | And how do you assess whether a breach is ‘ material ’ especially when the pre-completion period is relatively short ? |
| 15 | And how do you know that he knows ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 17 | I wept and I hugged my father and I even hugged Diggs , smelling his hard-blue uniform fabric as I did so and almost feeling him melt and believe me . |
| 18 | Why did they come on raids and why did they burn and steal ? |
| 19 | And why did it matter if he had ? |
| 20 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 21 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 22 | ‘ And why do you assume that I wo n't be willing to assist you ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But please let me know whether or not you 'll be home this evening — otherwise I 'll be watching and waiting for you . ’ |
| 24 | But then let us add that sometimes , in the very depth of his love , he ( sic ) may have to resign himself to reading the text and , knowing what he knows , feeling what he feels , passing on in silence . |
| 25 | But how does it happen that you did n't know they were leaving ? |
| 26 | … but how did they feel when the covers came off ? |
| 27 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 28 | No but how did you hear that erm she 's a randy |
| 29 | But how did you know that there was n't some big secret , some big , evil deal going down that involves you but had been kept secret from you ? |
| 30 | But how did you get when it 's usually five ? |