Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way .
2 The big problem with this sort of fine-tuning , advisers said , was that it usually did more damage than it corrected .
3 Its only concern has been to ensure that he really does so act , by the general rule which excludes from evidence any confession which is not proved to have been voluntary .
4 The change of emphasis really is n't that major , and you still need more speed than most people think .
5 Please remember that , if you ever need any help , your old friend Dermot is always here .
6 And , of course , if you ever need any help organising dinner parties or entertaining any of Julius 's important business clients , I 'd be delighted to give you some advice .
7 They 've always come out , but they always do then check while they 're there to see whether the property concerned is on the list of private , adopted or unadopted and there can be a mixture .
8 This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship .
9 I told you before you just do flat land .
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