Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will WONDERS never cease ? |
| 2 | Certain LEAs do indeed seem to have reduced their overall awards budgets this year , but most are continuing to grant awards at about the same levels as in previous years . |
| 3 | During 1986 , Mr Scott did once enter the kitchen , and when he did not see his wife assumed she was visiting relatives . |
| 4 | Now my relationship with David did actually include sex , but it was never initiated on that basis as he 'd come to my flat only as a lodger and during the course of the time he was there , we slept together . |
| 5 | As the packaging suggests , Rex does indeed have a problem . |
| 6 | But in September there were obviously fresh instructions : ‘ The United States does now place a reservation upon all of its pre-Geneva substantive positions , ’ said the delegate . |
| 7 | The reader is both astonished and utterly convinced , as he is later on in the interview when Porfiry plays the dangerous game of saying he has got no real proof , he 's going on hunch and ‘ psychology ’ — so Raskolnikov had better confess . |
| 8 | If what he saw through security did not impress him , Tammuz need never know he 'd had a visitor . |
| 9 | With the support of the likes of Prince Charles and Yehudi Menuhin , the appeal directors hope it wo n't be long before the they can guarantee that the Malvern Hills will forever echo to the sound of Elgar . |
| 10 | By the time Ellie did finally remember she was supposed to be meeting someone in Dublin , the afternoon was well advanced . |
| 11 | Turner did indeed renew the lease but , ( having been suitably bribed beforehand ) , in the name of Buller . |
| 12 | The tyrants of classical Sicily did indeed behave like the kings of hellenistic Greek history , intermarrying ( with a vengeance : they practised polygamy ) , shifting populations around ( Gelon 's transfer of capital and population to Syracuse ) , and building on a heroic scale . |
| 13 | By the end of that evening , after she had sat through a dinner in the large school refectory , listened to Madame Chardin 's opening speech of the term and lain in the dark listening to her new roommates , Katherine did indeed begin to feel if not at home , then at least marginally more comfortable . |
| 14 | The Justice Department , and a number of private litigants , argued that attention should be focused on sub-markets of the computer industry , in many of which IBM did indeed have high market shares . |
| 15 | Stations like those at Atbara , Port Sudan , and El Obeid did indeed have the look of an English country or Scottish Highland station , with the building on an island platform , adorned with travel posters and fine lamps . |
| 16 | On this last point , it is worth emphasizing , in advance of the evidence , that Nietzsche did certainly reject a quantity of material before the final draft , but that few of the " suppressed " passages are at all long and none are strikingly impressive . |
| 17 | The queen of England did no come , but she met instead her husband , Prince Philip , and her daughter , Princess Anne . |
| 18 | England did finally come to terms with their first-half lineout problems . |
| 19 | England did actually begin with a victory , Miller and Willey rather unexpectedly bowling out the Young West Indies XI on the last afternoon . |
| 20 | Although Mr. Philipson demurred when the suggestion was put to him , it is palpably clear that his submission amounts to a direct challenge to Mr. Barnes ' affidavit , which contains the clearest possible evidence that the Bank of England did indeed require these documents for the purposes of its own supervisory functions ; this will of course involve collaboration and co-ordination with the Federal Reserve Board 's supervision , on which , as he states expressly in paragraph 13(b) , the Bank of England is in part dependent . |
| 21 | What was discussed between the two has not been revealed , although Tcherkassoff did modestly state to the press that ‘ the cheloviek in the white hat has a bigger following than I do . ’ |
| 22 | All we can do is hope that Mrs W. will cool off and in the meantime , Edward , I 'm sorry but honestly I think Mary or Janice had better take over Junior Biology . ’ |
| 23 | If Andrew Orkney does indeed lead over Anchor Bridge , jumps the last two obstacles cleanly and wins the great event it will be a story entirely appropriate to its ridiculously romantic pattern . |
| 24 | Courtney ‘ Chris ’ Fairclough does indeed play a Batty role now in defensive midfield and does it quietly and efficiently . |
| 25 | Toyota need only have one team inventing electric cars or ceramic engines . |
| 26 | ‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped . |
| 27 | ‘ Th 'd better watch th'words , Jack , or th'missus 'll give thee a trouncing ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Th 'd better soap th'tongue . |
| 29 | ‘ Th 'd better mind th'words , Sally Dade . |
| 30 | ‘ Th 'd better take note , Sally . |