Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will check , McLeish thought , of course it will , someone just has to do it all . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone always has to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 3 | Something always happens and someone always has to deal with ( or avoid ) what has occurred . |
| 4 | I 'm no good at getting into lifts and finding my room so someone always has to show me . |
| 5 | Someone always has to start the clapping and when she did a few others followed . |
| 6 | Someone still has to make a decision about who should be encouraged to reproduce , and as in the past , women still carry the physical , social and emotional burdens of the eugenicists ' plans . |
| 7 | However , if someone wilfully refuses to pay the charge , it is right that he should have to pay the price for his illegal action . |
| 8 | Now on that point , for access someone now needs to pick up and write effectively a simple this is how we project planning on access . |
| 9 | But this time someone indeed appears to have been listening . |
| 10 | but it 's now erm , if the phone rings and he picks it up ah , er and he 's talking to someone on the phone someone else tries to ring |
| 11 | I have always enjoyed holidays alone because they allow me to do what I want to do and not what someone else wants to do . |
| 12 | Then someone else wants to buy the same book — what do you do ? |
| 13 | Someone else wants to know about VAT on thoroughbred horse breeders . |
| 14 | Have I no bays to crown it ? |
| 15 | It is a film in which little seems to happen yet everything changes . |
| 16 | Crealy Country , which eventually wants to build up a data bank on tortoises , can be contacted on 0395 233200 . |
| 17 | Paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries show us a countryside where humans are not dominant but co-exist with Nature in the struggle for life ; where cultivated fields are everywhere bounded by the wilderness which constantly threatens to encroach and claim back its own . |
| 18 | A highly selective bibliography produced by the Book Trust , which annually attempts to choose the best children 's books for a range of ages . |
| 19 | A fanciful idea by some toy manufacturer which only goes to underline what was said previously about imagination and licence ! |
| 20 | ( Though if one simply considers ‘ all women ’ as against ‘ all men ’ , such a finding invariably fails to emerge ; which only goes to show that lumping all women together masks important and interesting facts . ) |
| 21 | Illustrated were no less than two aero-engines , one in-line , the other rotary , two motor-cycles , various fuselage insignia and other items , which only goes to show that there is nothing new in collecting such things . |
| 22 | Which only goes to show ( so it is said ) that existential propositions are general propositions , or else they do not qualify as genuine propositions at all . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , I did n't realise it was Lori you were protecting , which only goes to show how mixed up you 'd got me , until the note arrived telling me you had the jade . |
| 24 | I still have the dress , which only goes to prove once again how difficult I find it to throw anything away ! |
| 25 | It 's a white place , like Wigan which only seems to have a Black population on Tuesday nights when the music from the Wigan Pier nightclub 's jazz-funk DJ draws in young Blacks from as far as the Midlands to body-pop . |
| 26 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 27 | She also points to the danger of a new tendency to give attention to affluent active newly-retired people , which only serves to concentrate ageism on older , poorer people . |
| 28 | The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty . |
| 29 | They present a critical agenda involved in a current cultural confrontation — questioning the ideological partiality of a neo-conservative critical perspective , which apparently refuses to confront the terms on which it asserts its authenticity and which limits the range of cultural artefacts it will admit as civilised discourse . |
| 30 | However , he rejects this view on the ground that although the redness of a red object is not something which merely happens to look red to us , since a redness which did not look red would not be redness , nonetheless ‘ red ’ does not mean ‘ looks red ’ since only one who understands ‘ red ’ can know what ‘ looks red ’ means . |