Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm now we advise you to fill that in once you do return to work because at least then they can let you know if you are going to exceed the limit . |
| 2 | He was soft and more used than he dared admit to indolence and good food . |
| 3 | Because there are so many English folk now in every community and we do tend to sort of doctor up the language a bit you know when we talk to them . |
| 4 | ‘ Our understanding is that if it does go to court , the hearing will be next year . ’ |
| 5 | Even if it did lead to danger , as the signpost clearly said , she was determined to follow it , even though she was scared . |
| 6 | As a textile man I do n't mind woolliness too much but I do object to vagueness because this motion is so vague that it can mean as much as you want it to mean while , at the same time , it says to little as to leave an escape route for it 's supporters . |
| 7 | There were , how ever , considerable practical problems for the Central Authority in disciplining this instinct by devising measures of performance alternative to the profit yardstick , The Area Board barons liked to keep the Central Authority distant from their own fiefs , but they did come to court to bargain on the issues which had to be resolved between them ; and when they did this personal and political factors could be as important as commercial or economic ones . |
| 8 | But he did go to church , so perhaps she was right . |
| 9 | but he did go to sleep about then |
| 10 | But he did bow to tradition by topping his wacky gear with the gown and a mortar board . |
| 11 | But it does apply to endowment policies and , since many good-value mortgage offers depend on you also taking out an endowment policy , FIMBRA registration is important . |
| 12 | When I do go to sleep , I see Geraldine 's face , and she 's always crying … ’ |
| 13 | When I did go to sleep , I went I do n't remember but it was a long while . |
| 14 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 15 | When she did go to sleep , she had a nightmare . |
| 16 | She had n't had an early night for ages and when she did get to bed she did n't sleep but just lay there thinking about Karl . |
| 17 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 18 | Moreover when he does refer to ideology it is not to develop the concept or incorporate it into his analysis of capitalism but to refer back to the tyranny of ideas and the emptiness of idealism ( e.g. in the Grundrisse , Marx 1973 : 164 ) . |
| 19 | Last year he scored 259 to make sure of the 1991 County championship , and plodded off unemotionally : though he did concede to emotion on the balcony when the victory was eventually sealed . |