Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [indef pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as making quick botch jobs of things that need careful repair if they are not to fall apart again next week , teachers , when they confront the impossibility of doing everything they ought to do head on , are faced with making some very tough priority decisions . |
| 2 | Instead of carding someone he 'll put his arm round her and say Do n't ! |
| 3 | if she 's refused about having something she 'll set |
| 4 | In in this instance the Harlow Sports Centre been very kind in doing everything they can to host this venue and hopefully in the near future the Harlow playhouse will open their arms also thank you . . |
| 5 | In fact , a multimedia database may be called upon to store anything you can store on a computer or use in an information application . |
| 6 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 7 | Although she was only just learning to speak , on spotting one she would shout ‘ mushoosh , mushoosh ’ ' much to the amusement of passers by . |
| 8 | Like her mother , Constance was a perfectionist and devoted all her energies and efforts to making something she could show Nora with pride and , more importantly , present to Miss Hatherby with confidence . |
| 9 | But even without smashing anything you can have a great break on Corfu . |
| 10 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |