Example sentences of "[conj] things [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Aristotelian adversary had to admit that things did appear that way when he repeated the observations for himself . |
| 2 | She thought about what Oliver had said and how silly he was and then she thought that things did happen , and not just to wicked people . |
| 3 | The trouble is that whereas actors move and speak as nature would have most of us do ( only rather better ) , in the performance of music we are using tools ( with the exception of the human voice ) which are in some way external ; they have to be mastered from without rather than from within — and things do go wrong . |
| 4 | If things do go wrong , Tebbit adds , Tory voters will say to themselves : |
| 5 | Incidentally , one way to motivate yourself if things do get sticky is to imagine that you have to explain the subject to the class the next day . |
| 6 | If things did go wrong , especially during recording , it was counted major disaster , increasing proportionately in scale the nearer to 10.00 pm the clock ticked . |
| 7 | But things did get eventually get better . |
| 8 | All the things that you 'd had during the Strike , but things did get left , and er tradesmen were very considerate , there was no chasing for m hard for money and er I know we had an insurance that was n't paid and we used the book to have an imaginary shilling on a horse each day . |
| 9 | But things do get to him . |
| 10 | There is nothing very new about it all Alf Ramsey was hounded out despite winning the World Cup , while Don Revie , Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson came in for vilification but things do seem to be getting worse . |
| 11 | Again , even though things do appear differently to different people , this is due to differences in the people , not to there being no reality behind the appearances . |