Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb base] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 2 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 3 | But , they also go on headed note paper which says Oxford City Council Environmental Health Department and all the other stuff we put on the top , erm and it 's perfectly clear that they do come from the City Department upon your behalf . |
| 4 | I think my question will make it clear that I do understand that . |
| 5 | It is , however , right and proper that we do report to this sub- committee on the activities of the staff commission , and that I do in the paper before you . |
| 6 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 7 | ‘ Yes we are friends , we have known each other since we were both 12 years old and we do spend lots of time together , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Because you 're seen in public and you do sing in public , there 's a lot of people that sing but as you say it 's sometimes just in their own homes or they used to but they would never sing in public , they used to sing in the choir . |
| 9 | We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft . |
| 10 | It has had considerable benefits , it 's had one or two drawbacks and er I think the biggest lesson that we have probably learned so far from the Eurofighter programme , is that we have to be very careful when we make work sharing agreements in future , that er we do n't try to drive the work sharing requirement down to too low a level . |
| 11 | They have now been accepted by the CNAA as being equal and acceptable degree qualifications where appropriate and they do mark a major attempt at the rationalization of art and design education below degree level . |
| 12 | During the early months of the season I catch my breath a bit , but the body is wonderfully adaptable and I do manage to reach parts of the loch others never cover . |
| 13 | We were very fortunate but I do remember the guns used to go off and I , when my so my son was born the , the guns were going off all the time from the castle . |
| 14 | ‘ It is all very sad but I do wish Kevin and the club success . |
| 15 | Teamwork is vital for the tougher , more challenging activities which , whilst less frequent , are more crucial when they do occur . |
| 16 | Still , if Hawking is right and we do find a complete unified theory , we shall really know the mind of God . |
| 17 | On the Quakers ' goal of the season so far , he said : ‘ I ca n't remember a lot about the build up , but the ball sort of bounced just right and I let fly . |
| 18 | Paragraph three , the action plan , er well it will guide itself evidence this , the statements made under the action plan , from section three of the report will guide our activities over the next three years and of course paragraph four performance the critical success factors , by the seven criteria we will be judged in the highway service and each one is a challenge in its own right and I do hope to receive in order to carry out these er , these er promises in fact , that erm , I 'd be given the relevant level of financial staff and resources |
| 19 | Cos erm , apparently erm Trevor was working for Bettaware for Avon and they had the Social Services round to say that I hear that your working and they do toy parties and they said no , I mean there not making a living out of it , it 's was just |
| 20 | Well , you 're always sorry if you let slip someone you think might be a leader . |
| 21 | There 's no need to feel guilty if you do use baby foods but try not to rely on them . |
| 22 | The playhouse in the Harlow is about the people in Harlow and about the people that come in from outside of Harlow I 'm very conscious that we do serve a very wide community and I am pleased that people with other sounds come and support the theatre has been rightly said if they did n't come in to Harlow to support the theatre we would have major problems . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 24 | He 'll be very quick and I do regret that he 's not here . |
| 25 | Well after extensive tests it can be revealed that they are human and they do have a heart . |
| 26 | He 's sick if you help pick him up . |
| 27 | It 's quite dangerous , as well , because you want to be objective and you do get sucked into the picture they 're presenting to you . |
| 28 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 29 | ‘ And I never get time to read , or think , or do anything worthwhile , and I 'm always so sleepy when I do get to the classes that I ca n't take in very much . |
| 30 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |