Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some day , ’ Nicholas said , ‘ You 'll find yourself somewhere where someone does understand Flemish , and they 'll cut your ears off , and then all your red hair , wherever you grow it . |
| 2 | Can I ask , Mr Chairman , in your opinion , had we carry out the erm , works or anything to do suppose to do . |
| 3 | This is what she said to herself , but at the same time she was alarmed , faintly alarmed by the implication that everyone did know such things . |
| 4 | But Nicky , I 've come to tell you that somebody does care . |
| 5 | Although nobody dared suggest to Ceauşescu that he might be mortal or that the victory of socialism might not be permanent , the new Civic Centre in Bucharest had the air of being constructed as a vast set of archaeological remains , whose scale and purpose would baffle future generations like the lost pyramid-cities of the Guatemalan jungle . |
| 6 | ‘ So somebody does come there ? ’ |
| 7 | In the event that one does arise we still have a senior medical crew on board , and I always carry a radio pager . |
| 8 | Diversion — showing that one does have some practical experience of treating alcoholism and other forms of addiction can be guaranteed to result in a change in the topic of conversation . |
| 9 | Even pride , the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised , even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation . |
| 10 | Although one does find parts of courses labelled ‘ theory ’ or ‘ practice ’ in some subjects , more often the contrast is attenuated , perhaps by an often unconscious empiricism . |
| 11 | Unfortunately no situations arose during field-work where the neighbourhood police were required to use these secondary recipes , although one did state how sympathetic he felt towards adolescents in parts of Easton because ‘ they do n't stand a chance ’ there , a feeling which easily translates into sympathetic handling of situations in which youths are involved . |
| 12 | After 300 miles none of our testers reported any discernible wear or compression in either the midsole or the outsole , although one did report a slight separation of the midsole from the outsole around the heel . |
| 13 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 14 | This is a typical conspiracy theory , which adduces the fact that something did happen as evidence that someone meant it to happen . |
| 15 | N Neighbourhood Watch is , is , is trying to establish that type of relationship in , in the area so that everybody does know each other . |
| 16 | If someone does pick on you and you ca n't escape without fighting , have the courage to accept that trouble is inevitable , the foresight to check that your escape route is clear , and the resolve to attack first . |
| 17 | Even if someone does catch the disease , experts say it is extremely treatable and nearly all patients make a full recovery . |
| 18 | If someone does come looking for trouble , he or she will pick a victim who does not look capable of causing any real problem . |
| 19 | Anyhow if someone did see the match Id be interested to hear what happened possession wise during the match … who was in control etc . |
| 20 | Some people even leave radios on in the house , so that there 's not only the light on , but if somebody does walk up the drive intending to knock on the door to test it , before they get to the door they can hear a noise , they turn around and go back . |
| 21 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 22 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 23 | Nobody 's going to know officially and it 's not as if there are hundreds of you or anything — I mean , so what if somebody does find you ? |
| 24 | We 're gon na play these tapes in my car tonight , have a good laugh , especially if somebody does turn up , I 'll say here are listen to this , this is what I think of about all at work today , what I 'm gon na do , mm she 'll say come on then , better get on with it , and I 'll go , yeah |
| 25 | I mean if somebody did grow a tree I mean , it must be harder in that kind of area but but wi with the right will for people to plant a tree and grow it it 's just as easy |
| 26 | The one that I tend to use most of the time is this one not least , because it only three pounds , and it 's quite affordable but a , again , it 's got a loud sound to it , and I found that if you carry one of these with you and somebody does approach you , you 've always got this in your pocket and you can actually aim it them , cos they do n't know what you 've got in your hand . |
| 27 | But now , Holly , you 're in Hut 2 of ZhKh 385/3/I , and nobody did do anything and the hut is reality . |
| 28 | Windowless , roofless and with blackened walls , the manor house was still smoking and nobody dared go inside just yet . |
| 29 | Even if everything does go wrong the interviewer will have forgotten the disasters which seem so catastrophic to you five minutes after you have left the room . |
| 30 | I think the things that have come out of this for me er from Councillor actually is that it would be unlikely that we , we or would be allocating that plan today and I think the amount of traffic has increased through the town centre would make it foolish and one does wonder at the wisdom if all the development went along which had to be serviced then through er Street and through the town centre in to the main areas of employment that happened years ago . |