Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [vb infin] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet we experience a great sense of loss , if we only let go of this intellect reluctantly and in fact would rather nurture it than shed it .
2 For example , in the sentence People have and still do disagree on this matter the form disagree can not follow both have and do .
3 The correct sentence would be People have disagreed and still do disagree on this matter .
4 It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state .
5 Mother Teresa said : ‘ The way the Mirror readers responded to this appeal shows that people really do care about each other . ’
6 I mean , it 's , it 's , I really do feel on these tendency to come on all the reports , I think we want , I think we want to hear that jobs and wages will undoubtedly go up , it 's erm this is absolutely inevitable that wages will go up and rise in the situation .
7 We shall see , by the end of this book , that a simple and practical distinction between fabliau and exemplum can be drawn , but that the same stories often do service in both categories .
8 He prodded once more his attaché case — which I felt inclined to keep my eyes averted from — and said : ‘ I suppose you 've been wondering why I never let go of this case .
9 The promises and statements made in election programmes are the basis of all those made in the campaign , so by relating these to government statements of their legislative programme , and even more so to actual behaviour in office , we can see if party-based democracies actually do work in this way .
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