Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't stand or walk alone and the muscle in his leg had withered badly . |
| 2 | You could die or go bankrupt and the house would stay basically unchanged , still mouldering slowly and running up a ransom of a heating bill … unless you were so fabulously rich that you could afford not to give a shit , in which case all arguments foundered . |
| 3 | If you have to sit down , for example at a meeting , lean forward rather than sit straight-backed because the voice gets more spring . |
| 4 | ( A light , sandy sub-soil , Charlotte learned , provided a first-class ground for crop-marks , since crops growing over ancient foundations tend to ripen and show yellow while the rest of the field is still green . |
| 5 | management responsibilities tend to overlap and become confused as the size of the management structure gets larger . |
| 6 | Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face , though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek . |
| 7 | The tax system extensively encouraged all peasant owners to settle down and get rich because the tax rate remained fixed on grain output from each household but the adjustment of the tax rate was more advantageous to the rich peasant than the poor , especially in view of the fact that the rich peasant still owned proportionately more land than the poor peasant . |
| 8 | He was going to go and get Janine and the baby and if necessary drag her to the flat in Westbourne Park . |