Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And , if so , would he recognise them as a warning that Doreen was not the right woman for him ?
2 He wo n't induct them to a living if he can help it and he certainly would n't put a divorced priest into a canonry . ’
3 If this was n't enough , the state does not recognise you as a mother until you are sixteen , when you are eligible to claim supplementary benefit , maternity grant and milk and vitamin tokens .
4 Once you have rehearsed , you will need to record a demo , especially as many venues wo n't consider you for a gig unless they have heard you on tape .
5 All it says is if you do buy something from a shop and realize it 's faulty , what you should do is take it back to the shop who sold it to you , together with your receipt if you 've still got it or some other proof of purchase .
6 It is important because if you do buy something from a shop and realize there 's something wrong with it , if you take it back the first thing the shop would say to you is can I see your receipt ?
7 Yeah their their funding tends to be they 'll they 'll fund something like a production or they 'll say at you know if you put our name up were give you so much or General Portfolio perhaps will will fund a particular show or a series of show 's or say were prepared to put a thousand pounds could you name six shows and we 'll put our name on those show 's when they 're advertised but no company or other Council 's actually prepared to come along and say were prepared to put money on a regular basis .
8 When a woman has finished her menstrual period and has counted seven days when no fresh bleeding has been apparent , she must immerse herself in a mikva before sexual relations with her husband can resume .
9 A woman who has given birth must immerse herself in a mikva before she can resume sexual relations with her husband .
10 The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time .
11 He wo n't need it for a bit if this weather goes on .
12 ‘ I would n't describe it as an assault but it was certainly reckless and dangerous play .
13 Er what I actually mean is whenever you have an idiom , you can substitute in the position of a whole sentence or of a verb phrase , but you ca n't substitute it for a subject and a verb , leaving the object of the sentence intact .
14 But I hope Madame does n't expect me in a hat and gloves . ’
15 One or two , maybe , and I 'm damned if I see how we 'll identify them in a hurry but … ’
16 ‘ I 'll send someone for a blanket and we 'll get her there in no time at all . ’
17 Very often , puberty for example , that depression will become more enhanced , so it might present itself as a problem that seems to be rising out of puberty , but as time goes on and through school help that does n't seem to be resolving that problem , I think that 's the point at which the specialist within the school , the teacher within the school , must think about , ‘ This does n't seem to be resolving itself .
18 Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there .
19 Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’
20 Were n't you saying in the tent only yesterday : " When Charles has been beaten and stripped of his weapons , I 'll personally tonsure him as a cleric and take him back to Ravenna " ?
21 Who did they rent it from a farmer or something ?
22 Wood lends a feeling of natural warmth to the conservatory , and you can choose it without a conscience if the timber used comes from managed forests .
23 And the second ad the third advocacy will be the supervised mitigation when you 'll do it with a tutor and then have separate individual feedback given to you .
24 I 'm not like some men who ca n't do it with a woman unless they feel emotionally involved with her .
25 Shall I do it with a toothbrush and a ?
26 The car would do it for a minute or two .
27 So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’
28 If you give me leave , I will do it in a way that would not dishonour your forebears . ’
29 Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’
30 If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well .
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