Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | Member states were allowed a discretion as to whether to include a state of the art defence and its inclusion is controversial as states which do have the defence could become testing grounds for new products . |
| 3 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 4 | As local Sports Development Groups and Plans can represent a significant source of support for sport I do hope that your organisation will be represented at this meeting . |
| 5 | Perhaps a more sensitive test would be to examine the writings of puritans who did take an interest in science in seventeenth-century England to see what connections they did make in their schemes for reform . |
| 6 | What a curious idea of literature you do have . |
| 7 | Reductions in factor prices do not then engender changing factor proportions , but of course they do reduce costs . |
| 8 | Yes of course they do work properly . |
| 9 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
| 10 | But er nowadays of course they do get a very much better chance . |
| 11 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 12 | Of course we do accept arbitrary distinctions about some matters : zoning , for example . |
| 13 | Of course we do have the right to say how we feel and how we would like to have sex . |
| 14 | Of course we did have gangs , as do as other places : London , Birmingham , Manchester , Liverpool , Cardiff , etc . |
| 15 | Because of course we did put er these proposals , most of these proposals until we 've had to erm at the board meeting er and we did give them full publicity in the Cambridge Evening News a couple of weeks ago . |
| 16 | But of course he did ride . ’ |
| 17 | Of course you do make extra , holiday time . |
| 18 | And of course you do realize with the greenhouse effect anyway the whole of Orford 's gon na disappear under water and Aldringham and Leiston . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course she does have staff to hand around the nosh , ’ Ken told her . |
| 20 | And er but of course she did lose the baby . |
| 21 | And as says , in some cases this becomes a very powerful force in the personality , some people mobilize so much guilt and hatred against themselves of course it does become self-destructive . |
| 22 | Of course it did herald a new era … in the second division . |
| 23 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 24 | its , honestly it was and eventually of course it did come out and there 's always been a gap because the one behind |
| 25 | Well of course I do know that the , the only answer to it , of course , is for the christian way but it 's not what it , that 's going to happen . |
| 26 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 29 | Even of cases which do come to court , a very great many are not concerned with crimes at all but rather with people 's rights as employees , consumers , householders and members of local communities . |
| 30 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |