Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This identification was one factor which provoked a major attack on the practice of International Relations which helped usher in a new way of thinking about the subject . |
| 2 | what did you want to do go in a central caravan or what ? |
| 3 | Handling the whole process of letting go in a wise and loving way is probably the most important factor in negotiating the teenage years . |
| 4 | However I did throw in a little bit of doubt , there was a possible objection there that you might have apacked you sound a little bit doubtful Mrs , do you have a problem with that |
| 5 | Of course , where the science fiction writers really go to town is on what happens if you do fall in a black hole , A common suggestion is that if the black hole is rotating , you can fall through a little hole in space-time and out into another region of the universe . |
| 6 | Also , any attempts to kill wild animals , or almost all attempts , do result in a large amount of suffering . |
| 7 | You do speak in a strange way , like the old eagles used to . ’ |
| 8 | As expected , shadowing did result in a significant reduction in right field advantage for the verbal task . |
| 9 | Class Action — Father and daughter Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio do battle in a crowded courtroom . |
| 10 | Others can and do work in a different way . |
| 11 | Since women had for centuries been instructed to use the masculine possessive pronoun when referring to the whole human race , why should n't there be some belated corrective action , even if it did stick in a few ( masculine ) throats ? |
| 12 | In the early 1790s , however , like canals , the trusts did feature in a general investment boom , as they did again in 1809 – 12 . |
| 13 | Bevin did not accept Attlee 's idea of resiting Britain 's main base in Africa , but he did share in a developing view that Africa should play a much greater role in Britain 's imperial policy , especially because of its ( alleged ) economic potential . |
| 14 | They occur in many other lakes and rivers in Africa , but have never lived in the present Victoria ( though they did live in a prehistoric lake on the same site ) . |
| 15 | They seemed silly and childish and so much less wise than us who really did live in a drab and depressing world and yet found happiness in it . |
| 16 | People do live in a certain fear of him and anxiety about how he 'll respond to anything done up there in Inniskeen . |
| 17 | erm I think we do live in a patriarchal society where , even if , for example , some of the single carers that I interviewed — three were men out of eight or nine — and they had an equally hard deal , because the rules are stacked against people caring for dependents , whether the people who care are men or are women . |
| 18 | There is an optional metering scheme , and if you do live in a higher rateable value property , and you do n't use er above average amounts of water , you 'd probably you 'd probably benefit from put a water in or have a water meter installed . |
| 19 | We do n't know , but erm we do live in a confrontational parliamentary system . |
| 20 | Even if individuals do live in a nuclear family group it does not necessarily mean that their closest emotional ties are to be found there . |
| 21 | The evidence does indicate in a high-employment economy the proportion of workers to non-workers can be kept up by keeping more people in full- or part-time work past the current retirement age . |
| 22 | Mr Harker does live in a big house near here , but he 's hardly ever there . |