Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not want or need Rachaela any more . |
| 2 | Note here whether any general types of grammatical construction are used to special effect ; eg comparative or superlative constructions ; coordinative or listing constructions ; parenthetical constructions ; appended or interpolated structures such as occur in casual speech . |
| 3 | Managers have to modify or influence behaviour all the time . |
| 4 | So erm I mean the justification for this kind of course I would claim is ultimately to try and make people more realistic about what is possible and er the , because th th the advantage of knowing what 's possible is you can avoid impossible experiments that ultimately result in disaster for everyone . |
| 5 | And we went to try and get Chris some trainers . |
| 6 | By the time he reached the low bridge on to the wharfs , he had decided to try and see Julie that afternoon . |
| 7 | Neo-classical models of the labour market contend that equilibriating mechanisms such as migration should work to eradicate spatial variations in unemployment ( Gleave and Palmer , 1980 ) , but the continuation of wide regional variations in rates of joblessness through the 1980s suggests that these mechanisms are not working very efficiently ( Gleave and Sellens , 1984 ; Green et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | By contrast , the new EXAFS studies show that modifying cations such as Na+ and Ca2+ have an important role to play in the structure of glass . |
| 9 | Is n't it time the Government acknowledged all the hard work mums have done and gave playgroups some official funding ? |
| 10 | Various institutional arrangements both support and reproduce cooperation such as continuous consultation with the union and the practice of delegated decision-making . |
| 11 | Throughout the book I have extolled the virtues of the post office , mainly because , even in the most rural areas you are likely to have a sub post office , where you will be able to deposit and withdraw money all week and on Saturday mornings as well . |
| 12 | And if you pass that test you go back to your police force and you are evaluated and having tests all the time . |
| 13 | In the early days of commercial TV , lots of ads were written as jingles composers such as Johnny Johnson in the UK made a fortune out of them and the best were sung by kids and ad people all over the country . |
| 14 | It was , however , an encouraging week for Norman , golf 's fallen idol , who a month ago had surgery on a knee injury suffered when playing football many years ago . |
| 15 | The student can understand that the discipline is not given in any absolute sense , but has been socially formed and reflects interests both of rival factions within the disciplinary culture and of the wider society . |
| 16 | While there is no doubt that carp can digest and like ingredients such as casein and fishmeal , they do not need such high quality ingredients in their food . |
| 17 | Fagin distrusted everybody , but he hated and distrusted Sikes most of all . |
| 18 | A Smithfield is a leggy type of collie of the sort that bullock drovers used when working cattle half a century ago . |
| 19 | The state government had been forced to intervene and support services such as welfare programmes and county hospitals which might otherwise have collapsed . |
| 20 | We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year . |
| 21 | We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year . |
| 22 | Recognise and name Simple plane figures ; understand and use terms such as side , diagonal , perimeter , area , angle . |
| 23 | It is to be hoped that repeated surveys such as the Social Attitudes Survey will be conducted for many years to come in order to allow these important distinctions to be made . |
| 24 | From this vantage point they will silently spy on travellers , offering wrong directions if asked and placing obstacles such as stones and logs on the path . |
| 25 | I 've got ta go and get Nat some shoes tonight after school . |
| 26 | The first type ( 2a ) is phonologically defined and includes variables such as ( th ) , which concerns deletion of ( ta ; ) intervocalically in a small defined set of lexical items of the type mother , gather , together . |
| 27 | If one were to suggest that in order to learn French we should first practise and watch sentences such as ‘ He makes of the sun ’ in order to prepare the way for the sentence ‘ Il fait du soleil ’ , it would be ridiculed by modern language theorists . |
| 28 | Occam is a natural language for specifying and describing systems such as VLSI circuits . |
| 29 | She smiled and poured Harvey another drink . |
| 30 | Cause you 're talking and explaining things all the time and |