Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unchanging first part of the sentence is always : What country or people do you think of when the conversation is about … ? |
| 2 | What country or people do you think of when the conversation is about boomerangs ? |
| 3 | Underestimated in England , because everywhere Kingmaker have visited abroad has taken the NME 's word as gospel — far more seriously than people do who read the NME in England . |
| 4 | MENTION big-time tennis venues round here and folk let you prattle on about Wimbledon , Roland Garros , Flushing Meadow and Flinders Park and then press a few claims of their own . |
| 5 | However , 44% of you feel that these reports should leave the gory details out and 39% feel they encourage copycat crimes . |
| 6 | If people hear you come from Blackbird Leys you get condemned for it . |
| 7 | I know it 's a different subject like this is drugs and the other thing is smoking but like it 's still the same if people see you do it people take things off you . |
| 8 | Now I 've told this tale before and some bright spark said Aye but th do you know there are five in the British Isles ? |
| 9 | She looked faintly stunned , as people do who have observed the misshapen : there is no Schadenfreude to ease the witnessing of deformity . |
| 10 | ‘ Devilishly handsome ’ Des , gushes his press release , will set ‘ hearts reeling ’ when people see him put the kettle on in the second Nescafe ‘ Fresh Start ’ ad . |