Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 2 | Dress shop assistants grow supercilious , aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment . |
| 3 | He had inched his way to the dark bathroom , and stood slumped over the sink , feeling lost , depersonalized , and trying to soothe or tether himself with the running water . |
| 4 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 5 | It is impossible to force or encourage someone into a different sexuality from that which pertains to them . ' |
| 6 | Music had been important to her and the shelves held a catholic collection of records with which he could refresh or console himself during the two weeks ' holiday . |
| 7 | For now , the Strongs wil just have to wait and prepare themselves for the next weekend that Purcell comes home . |
| 8 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 9 | Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal . |
| 10 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 11 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 12 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 13 | Left alone , Meredith ignored her shaking legs and managed to strip off and ease herself into the heavy waist petticoats from beside the chest . |
| 14 | Let me be able to wash and dress myself to the last . |
| 15 | First of all , presumably , you lose your normal time structure of having to go off and do something on a regular basis . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never had any doubts about my scoring ability but I have still got to go out and do it on a consistent basis . ’ |
| 17 | Another way of creating a bad impression at a social interview is by being so self-conscious and aware of what is going on that you are unable to act naturally and show yourself in the best possible light . |
| 18 | Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success . |
| 19 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 20 | I 'll come and see you in the mental hospital if you promise not to cause a scene . |
| 21 | can if you want , in the it 's not that far to go around and use one for the whole day . |
| 22 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |
| 23 | Most officers will be happy to help and provide you with the necessary information . |
| 24 | Dorothy would leave and abandon her at the very idea . |
| 25 | So that 's why we said well let's get on and decide which of the next four homes to be refurbished . |
| 26 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 27 | Everyone wants to be able to design and create something with an individual touch , whether it 's an outfit to wear or soft furnishings for the home . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel I should write and thank you for the smooth transition and vast improvement to the standard of cleaning at our premises . |
| 29 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 30 | is er , Robert you can come up and take us through the four steps of selling . |