Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was scolded for an hour by Bessie as the most ungrateful child in the world , and indeed with so much hate in my heart I did feel wicked . |
| 2 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 3 | ‘ The tables are fun to use and after 10 one-hour sessions I did feel slimmer and more enthusiastic about exercise in general , ’ she said . |
| 4 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 5 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that there is one section of the department which does have regular problems of robbery and criminal damage — our Parking Section . |
| 6 | The 29.5 per cent of the electorate who did vote Tory under the circumstances of February 1974 must have known what they were doing — contesting the ‘ unconstitutional claims of the disruptive sectional union interests ’ — but they did not form a sufficiently large social bloc . |
| 7 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
| 8 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |
| 9 | It is devastatingly hard to work out , but on the plus side you do get more than a year in which to solve the problem . |
| 10 | Very rarely do we distribute demo 's of commercial games , but as a service to our readers we do make one or two exceptions . |
| 11 | You actually make up a structure like this tetraneedle carbon we did have another one but er , obviously there 's some students have erm decided to do something different with the er things that 's all that 's left ! |
| 12 | Certainly for cause and effect we do need two things , things that in the most fundamental sense are two in number . |
| 13 | ‘ On the upside we do get some new associations to replace the old , ’ says Henderson , who is happy to welcome the Anglo-Mongolian Society , among others . |
| 14 | In some respects they do have some characteristics that are similar to the French ones . |
| 15 | It must be borne in mind that the majority of these data have been derived from subjects younger than 65 years ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) so that the effect of hypotensive drugs in the older age-groups regardless of their blood-pressure status was largely unknown until the recent publication of the European Working Party Trial which did show significant benefits in the elderly ( Amery et al , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Moreover , Lyons himself does make explicit appeal to the characteristics of literacy in his description of ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 17 | While in former years parents were encouraged to stay together for the sake of their children , more recently emphasis has been put on the damage done to children by parents who do stay married but are in constant conflict . |
| 18 | Dominic you do look strange since |
| 19 | For housewives who do receive appreciative comments from husbands , this positive reward is often conditional , and therefore hardly an improvement on a situation in which only failure is referred to : |
| 20 | If you do not have DC Operations privilege , you should use option 2.5.0 — Change Ownership Of DC , to pass the DC to a user who does have this privilege . |
| 21 | If you do not have DC Operations privilege , you should use option 2.5.0 — Change Ownership Of DC , to pass the DC to a user who does have this privilege . |
| 22 | If the user does not have DC OPERATIONS privilege , he may use option 2.5.0 , Change Ownership of DC , to pass the DC to a user who does have this privilege . |
| 23 | Always take a friend who can drive your transport in case you do get injured or the poor organisers will be left with unattached horses and vehicles all over the place ! |
| 24 | Following the precedent of other studies , but also the dictates of the survey itself ( which showed that most employers who do engage fixed-term contract or agency workers engage only one or two of them ) , we conducted our analysis largely in terms of a comparison of " users " and " non-users " . |
| 25 | Of course you do make extra , holiday time . |
| 26 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a strange situation , ’ he continues , ‘ When I go and see a band I do feel conspicuous because of my age . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a strange situation , ’ he continues , ‘ When I go and see a band I do feel conspicuous because of my age . |
| 29 | No more than the answer she gave in the Crime and Punishment which did get printed , to the not quite taunting question ‘ And what does God do for you ? ’ |
| 30 | A fabulous package which helps organise those chaotic lists of ideas or prioritised jobs . |