Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |
| 2 | You can also use your yarn for weaving , which by combining it with another fine yarn , will lighten , darken or brighten it up considerably and leave you with a beautiful fine fabric . |
| 3 | I was living up Redruth way and I used to go and see her as often as I could , because I sort of sensed she was n't all that happy . |
| 4 | I think it would be easier to try and draw them together so that we have got this document with the position so far , as we have a lot . |
| 5 | But if you want my opinion , I think you 're ill-advised to try and force him out simply because you 've got a legal case . |
| 6 | He would thrust and persuade it as far as he could towards an ending . |
| 7 | Should she try and get him back again or buy a newspaper first and try to find out what in the world he had been talking about ? |
| 8 | She asked the person who answered her to try and find him as soon as possible and to ask him to contact her in Cairo immediately as there is an extremely urgent matter she needs to talk to him about . |
| 9 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |