Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [pron] [vb base] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 2 | I know people who do make money from their knitting and they usually concentrate on a particular line . |
| 3 | They bring into focus the dilemmas facing anthropologists who do research in their home territory . |
| 4 | Whilst we do not have clear evidence that heparin confers benefit we do know that where one is administering TPA and aspirin and heparin there is some evidence of an increase in side effects . |
| 5 | The post-industrial middle classes produce symbols which help realize the value of other symbols . |
| 6 | Er the County Council demonstrates that in five years the Hertfordshire erm etc , erm now I think Chairman we do have erm a pretty good strategy into the consultation rather better than the one for the erm current year which was started erm by the previous erm administration . |
| 7 | And some , some of their fa , I mean , if they 're lucky enough to have families who do help them that , er that , that 's fine , but I mean a lot of them do n't have anybody at all , and they really have to pay their gas , electric , rent , poll tax , off an absolute pittance ! |
| 8 | … And I think you 've also got to have people who do bear in mind that they 're about one of the few parts of the authority that are in the forefront of the people and are basically representing the authority . |
| 9 | People think women who do not want to marry unfeminine , people think women who do want to marry immodest — people combine both opinions by regarding it as unfeminine for women not to look forward longingly to wifehood as the hope and purpose of their lives , and ridiculing and condemning any individual woman of their acquaintance whom they suspect of entertaining such a longing . |
| 10 | With the conditional theory of knowledge , and the above explication of clauses 3 and 4 , you can be said to know that you are sitting reading because ( 3 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading you do not believe that you are , and ( 4 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you do believe that you are . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 12 | Where subjects are asked to perform tasks which do involve comprehension , consistent evidence for the interaction of syntactic processing with other kinds of processing has emerged . |
| 13 | Although platelets can not synthesize prostacyclin they do possess the enzyme 9-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase ( Wong et al , 1980 ) . |
| 14 | They admit that to withdraw benefit from the woman when the man is not giving her money may cause ‘ distress and hardship ’ but ‘ to continue to pay it would be unfair to the majority ’ ( DHSS/SBC , 1976a , p. 7 ) — ‘ the majority ’ meaning in this case married couples and those cohabiting males who do accept their ‘ responsibility ’ to give money to the women they sleep with . |