Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they could only wait and listen for any scrap of news . |
| 2 | It may have brought much comfort ( or much discomfort ! ) , it may have been continuing or a once only meeting but nevertheless was important in that another Christian was alongside to listen and share in such a way that you travelled on encouraged . |
| 3 | If you want to colour the planets , do n't all go and stand round that picture , go and have a look come back and colour them . |
| 4 | In most social research the researcher aims to be detached and not to affect or interfere with that which is being studied . |
| 5 | Thus the pronoun this does not name or refer to any particular entity on all occasions of use ; rather it is a variable or place-holder for some particular entity given by the context ( e.g. by a gesture ) . |
| 6 | But the ordination of women does not stand or fall on that , rather it is related back to our understanding of God and of men and women created and redeemed in that image . |
| 7 | It happens that Mr X 's preferred language is French , but even in that tongue he could not write or spell with any normal level of competence and his grammar was almost non-existent . |
| 8 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 9 | There is another source of light between these walls , a light which can not flicker and die like that from the misshapen lump of white wax dripping into the saucer on my table . |
| 10 | The point is that we can not circumnavigate or dispose of these problems by resorting to the familiar logical ploy of treating questions about experiences as if they were simply questions about the logical properties of sentences in which we ordinarily talk about experiences . |
| 11 | I do n't usually come and talk like this , do I ? |
| 12 | The important feature of both initiatives was that people who normally work independently from each other and who shared a common vision and interest , were brought together also to share and benefit from each other 's expertise . |
| 13 | If he can nae read or write by this time , what 's the point ? ’ |
| 14 | The engineer with the irreverent sense of humour who would n't give houseroom to a defunct machine but who would carefully dismantle and put by any parts that might be of use later on would — this time next year — be helping to nourish the rose beds . |
| 15 | ‘ Ca n't stay and listen to another attack … on my … my … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I wo n't stay and listen to this ! ’ |
| 17 | Yet I am sure that Messrs Noah , Forget and Leconte neither did n't know nor care about that . |
| 18 | There 's piles of junk and stuff in tins the children should n't touch and stuff like that … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't put him next to other horses , but he can see them clearly , only a field away , and he does n't fret or bother at all . |
| 20 | The effect is rather like being in a sensory deprivation tank , in that you ca n't move or react at all . |
| 21 | A woman and that do n't s I mean if you 're having just an argument it 's raised voices but a woman does n't scream and cry like that unless |
| 22 | When they served her with a stallion you see , it was three weeks elapsed then before she if you did n't go and foal with that service it was three weeks elapsed afore you game again . |
| 23 | But sleep did n't come and round about half past three he realised it was n't going to come . |
| 24 | Yeah I do n't say we do n't row , I do n't say we do n't argue and get on each other 's nerves , we do , but when he goes back to work now for a couple of days it 'll take me three or four days to settle down into not having him there . |
| 25 | ‘ I am working hard to try and build on this and so far we have about 16 corporate members . |
| 26 | It is obviously devastating for a parent to watch a child go through misery , but Dorothy Einon points out that children learn how to give and take from such experiences . |
| 27 | Leavis always laid claim to the subtler view of controversy , but his doctrine was always easily open , as he knew , to cruder interpretations , and the fire-and-brimstone of his prose sometimes made it hard to interpret or understand in any other way . |
| 28 | The accord exists because all promises of a ‘ happy ’ after-life are related to ‘ happiness ’ with the meaning it has acquired in the worldly sense , for indeed , it can mean nothing else , as human beings can neither experience nor envisage with any real conviction , any other kind of happiness . |
| 29 | The five foolish virgins with no oil for the lamps could neither buy nor borrow from those who had supplied their own lamps . |
| 30 | It implies that , since subjects can not completely understand or communicate with each other , or even themselves , the full ‘ representation ’ of women by female subjects , or of particular , female-identified subject areas , methods or theories , is impossible . |