Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Or when did we get that vase ? |
2 | Because she [ the new maths teacher ] did n't know me , she did n't have any confidence in me … but because she did n't have any confidence in me , I did n't have any confidence in myself , and that is the thing that really makes me regret changing schools … at my first school all the teachers knew me and had confidence in me . |
3 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
4 | And the first one is , Is the policy required and if so does it give sufficient guidance . |
5 | But you have to hold it down like that , and not let it burst free and flop trembling onto the table . ’ |
6 | If not do you have any suggestions ? |
7 | Anyway er I went out and I shut the gates and just let them know that you know , they 'd sort of I wa I was checking |
8 | Begin with very light strokes and gradually let them become firmer . |
9 | ‘ He taught me how to tie a package with very little twine and very little paper and still make it look nice , ’ Walton later recalled . |
10 | In Symphony you have to fill in two settings forms — but there is a Group facility which allows you to specify all the series to be charted in a single operation and similarly lets you assign all the legends in a single step . |
11 | Leaders make others feel that what they are doing matters and hence makes them feel good about their work . |
12 | This speeds up calculations , reduces memory requirements and often lets you use narrower columns , so you can fit more on-screen . |
13 | ‘ And whereabouts did you visualize all this happening ? ’ |
14 | Maggie smiled and he bent his dark head and kissed her , holding her hand and simply letting her fall asleep . |
15 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
16 | Just looks like just looks like toffee and they just roll it like that and then do it like that . |
17 | And how do we rescue particular places , or should we leave them to decay ? |
18 | And how do we do that ? |
19 | ‘ And how do we do that with radios and telephone knocked out by the storm ? ’ |
20 | And how do we answer this question ? |
21 | And how do we fix this on now ? |
22 | And how do we muster thousands ? |
23 | ‘ And how do you manage that ? ’ |
24 | And then my father became a very keen gardener and asking Thomas , How do you do th this and how do you do that ? |
25 | So you 've got to get used to advocating with just an ordinary table , and how do you do that ? |
26 | Now I can not say whether you will have a secondary school , and the reason I can not say that er is because the education authority will , quite properly , and quite reasonably , look at the existing pattern of secondary education er in the area , and will bear in mind that secondary school children , not unreasonably , as they do now , can be expected , erm to travel , er some distance , er to a school facility , that is the real world , you can not expect a local education authority to spend vast amounts of money erm on er a high range of facilities , which are not justified by the size , er , of the community , and all these social , recreation , er an an and education facilities appropriate to the size erm of the community , need to be expressed in a pattern of land use which is well integrated , and well designed , in other words , it 's a good design concept er , and how do you do that ? |
27 | And how do you do that ? |
28 | And how do you sex these fish ? |
29 | And how do you expect this to change by the end of the century ? |
30 | Right and how do you spell that ? |