Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To convince the reader of my findings in any subsequent report on the study I would have had to show that the points made by my informants did produce a coherent and logical pattern . |
| 2 | And while my ships does have useful guns of its own , in nose and tail , they were hardly a match for the hundred and twenty flamers ranged against me . |
| 3 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 4 | Yes my children do go to school now and have done for some months now . |
| 5 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 6 | Yes my children do go to school and have done for some months now . |
| 7 | Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 8 | Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now . |
| 9 | Let me send my offerings where I can not go ; my pains to comfort sufferers whom I will never see ; and my sacrifices to help plant the Cross in lands that know not yet of the Crucified . |
| 10 | No , both my sister-in-laws did play at one time for Scottish women 's football . |
| 11 | This approach does not place the emphasis upon the problems with which solicitors do deal , but upon those with which they could deal . |
| 12 | Its history was of minor significance in itself , although its activities did lead to a degree of confrontation which acted as a precursor to the political violence later to become associated with the BUF in the 1930s . |
| 13 | In ‘ Controlling an epidemic ’ Brookbanks & Hampstead describe how they contacted intravenous drug users and their contacts to help stop the spread of an outbreak , and WHO recommend that all health care workers receive vaccination against hepatitis B. |
| 14 | They failed to obtain any long-term understanding on future regional coal price differentials from the National Coal Board , but their discussions did seem to indicate that there would be advantages to shifting away from the high-cost coalfields of Kent , South Wales and Scotland , and towards the cheaper coal of the East Midlands and Yorkshire . |
| 15 | Perhaps they were too well-known to need spelling out ; but it is just as likely that the personal qualities which contemporaries did stress were what really accounted for both men 's influence at the courts of successive Carolingians . |
| 16 | It 's not just that we 're going to write articles about EastEnders , but what we 're interested in is EastEnders , The Bill , Brookside , because a lot of people actually watch these programmes , and there is clearly a way in which programmes do seem to be referencing each other and dealing with similar topics . |
| 17 | Even so , they find that their skills do enable them to get children back to their own homes , although this as yet is a secondary role . |
| 18 | Such prodigies were invariably pupils of the three most prominent schools of the area — Queen 's , Dale and Selborne — whose monumental inter-school rivalries were temporarily suspended when their products did service for the province . |
| 19 | But when these procedures have left gaps , people know they have no right to rely on anything , except that if their activities do provoke litigation judges will decide their fate by constructing what is , in the judges ' opinion at least , the best rule for the future . " |
| 20 | Bachelor Dr Smith , of Northampton , said he and his father had remortgaged their homes to help meet the growing bills . |
| 21 | While we believe that their books do meet the criteria outlined above [ in the preceding paragraphs ] we have no doubt that so too do those of many authors who are favourites with children and teachers . ’ |
| 22 | Finally , at least in the social sciences , there would seem to be strong social influences on which methods do get displayed and which are ignored . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Perhaps if you write into PPC with your tales of which manufacturers do provide an adequate technical advice service and which simply expect you to look elsewhere we might all know who to avoid . |
| 25 | The identification of lust with ‘ brown girls ’ probably had no racial connotations in that innocently discriminatory age ; but the scenes towards the end where the Witch tries to capture John with her wiles do leave the disconcerting impression that Lewis thought of Christianity as little more than a good ‘ cure ’ for lust . |
| 26 | As it happens , cases have been reported recently in which animals do seem to be able to recognize their relatives as such , but that is another story . |
| 27 | It shows , unequivocally , that many men in the last years of their lives do assume roles and perform tasks which have been traditionally associated with women , and it is clear that a substantial number do so with skill and tenderness . |
| 28 | Victims of meningitis have been sharing their experiences to help make people more aware of the disease . |
| 29 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 30 | Their shortcomings help swell the growing numbers of the ‘ new ’ unemployed and the ‘ new ’ poor ; women whose unemployment and poverty remain hidden . |