Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was gon na do look in that did you say you looked in that Argos book for darts did you , or ? |
| 2 | Eliot must have heard of his arrest during or just after his visit to Paris at the beginning of that month since , on his return , he immediately sent a cable to Archibald MacLeish , the poet who was then Assistant Secretary of State , saying that he was eager to help Pound in any way he could . |
| 3 | If we do think in this unilinear way , we will be inclined to dismiss or devalue evidence that is important for our understanding of language history , just as some of our predecessors have done . |
| 4 | The particular clays he has in mind do exist in many different crystalline forms . |
| 5 | Of course , these conditions do exist in some schools and in some classrooms already . |
| 6 | While the exercise about to be described was a theoretical model , not an empirical test , its results indicate that positive NPV opportunities probably do exist in some ‘ cash cows ’ and that an integration of DCF and portfolio-grid analyses may lead to a more careful and sophisticated use of portfolio grids . |
| 7 | In the long term , yes , but what we 're currently doing as part of the assessment of the Finmere application is just checking the resources that do exist in those four areas , to , to make sure that we 're still able to meet our targets . |
| 8 | What did remain in that paper , that year , was a hankering after what had survived from 1967 , exemplified in the prose of John Peel . |
| 9 | We shall see , by the end of this book , that a simple and practical distinction between fabliau and exemplum can be drawn , but that the same stories often do service in both categories . |
| 10 | To be sure , bitterness which did exist in some quarters between Protestants and Catholics both then and now has not affected Jews , thankfully . |
| 11 | It did exist in those parts of ‘ modernizing ’ industry which were part of the engineering industry and involved skilled labour in manufacture , as distinct from the Fordist production practices of process plants . |
| 12 | It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics . |
| 13 | ‘ I am dead in law ’ — but of the girl he denied that he had ‘ attempted to vitiate her at Nine years old ’ ; for ‘ upon the word of a dying man , both her Eyes did see , and her Hands did act in all that was done ’ . |
| 14 | It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state . |
| 15 | There is thus little duplication of Mr Williamson 's earlier Knights of the Iron Cross , and the entries for the 14 men who do appear in both volumes have been subsequently expanded . |
| 16 | Truth be told , I ca n't really remember what I did do in those six months . |
| 17 | However , as we have seen , there is little evidence that such poverty did decline in this period ; indeed the survival of more mouths to fed may have increased it . |
| 18 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 19 | The promises and statements made in election programmes are the basis of all those made in the campaign , so by relating these to government statements of their legislative programme , and even more so to actual behaviour in office , we can see if party-based democracies actually do work in this way . |
| 20 | ‘ Er , ’ Gurder said , ‘ we did look in all the rooms , did n't we ? ’ |
| 21 | But I say I believe in in one respect alright , she 's got the car she can whip in and out but I do believe in another respect she 's got to the point where she ca n't be bothered ! |
| 22 | He did believe in that . |
| 23 | This view of the decade is now very widely accepted , and with reason : political and other stresses at the time did encourage in many quarters a rejection of modernism in favour of documentary , realistic forms more obviously attuned to the contemporary crisis . |
| 24 | There was very little else we did have in those days . |
| 25 | It 's possible that trade with China in the Middle Ages and later may have caused the genes of the two types to mix somewhat , but they definitely did mix in another way . |
| 26 | But , largely for that very reason , assets do vary in both their expected returns and their riskiness . |
| 27 | I did notice in that they sell , sell erm cushion covers with the sofas |
| 28 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 29 | Do n't you wee wee in that paddy mind . |
| 30 | And one thing we will learn from it I think , if we 're honest with ourselves , and we put , and try and save up and have a piece on the end there , but the one thing I think we will perhaps come to , and the one conclusion we may come to , is the fact that whilst we , we do live in this world and I absolutely agree that if somebody says , look I need to see a new as well , I need to see you now , or I need to see you tomorrow , that 'll be difficult , O K , and that 's the immediacy of the business . |