Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I do go to sleep , I see Geraldine 's face , and she 's always crying … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I do go to bed with Victoria on occasion . |
| 3 | As a textile man I do n't mind woolliness too much but I do object to vagueness because this motion is so vague that it can mean as much as you want it to mean while , at the same time , it says to little as to leave an escape route for it 's supporters . |
| 4 | When I did go to sleep , I went I do n't remember but it was a long while . |
| 5 | I did go to night school there to learn joinery . |
| 6 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 7 | Well do you know I never knew this I was recently hit by a car and , although not seriously hurt , I did go to casualty to have some cuts cleaned and an X-ray taken to check I had n't broken my ankle . |
| 8 | And I I , I did say to Bet oh my bleeding mouth I was gon na say . |
| 9 | She felt beautiful , needed , and alone she dared admit to feeling loved . |
| 10 | You did go to sleep did n't you for a long time ? |
| 11 | Erm now we advise you to fill that in once you do return to work because at least then they can let you know if you are going to exceed the limit . |
| 12 | Yes it 's not erm you do have to sort of take your sock and shoe off , but only of one foot . |
| 13 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 14 | When she did go to sleep , she had a nightmare . |
| 15 | She had n't had an early night for ages and when she did get to bed she did n't sleep but just lay there thinking about Karl . |
| 16 | Because there are so many English folk now in every community and we do tend to sort of doctor up the language a bit you know when we talk to them . |
| 17 | We agreed to a spending on capital statement , we do agree to spending six hundred thousand pounds for the much needed paper and look at the council rate monies spent later this year . |
| 18 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 19 | There were , how ever , considerable practical problems for the Central Authority in disciplining this instinct by devising measures of performance alternative to the profit yardstick , The Area Board barons liked to keep the Central Authority distant from their own fiefs , but they did come to court to bargain on the issues which had to be resolved between them ; and when they did this personal and political factors could be as important as commercial or economic ones . |
| 20 | But he did go to church , so perhaps she was right . |
| 21 | He did go to school |
| 22 | but he did go to sleep about then |
| 23 | Last year he scored 259 to make sure of the 1991 County championship , and plodded off unemotionally : though he did concede to emotion on the balcony when the victory was eventually sealed . |
| 24 | But he did bow to tradition by topping his wacky gear with the gown and a mortar board . |
| 25 | Even if it did lead to danger , as the signpost clearly said , she was determined to follow it , even though she was scared . |
| 26 | So the law was , was implemented , it became fa clear fairly quickly that , in the process of that implementation , it did lead to encroachment on the r middle peasant . |
| 27 | He was soft and more used than he dared admit to indolence and good food . |
| 28 | Moreover when he does refer to ideology it is not to develop the concept or incorporate it into his analysis of capitalism but to refer back to the tyranny of ideas and the emptiness of idealism ( e.g. in the Grundrisse , Marx 1973 : 164 ) . |
| 29 | However , it does lead to competition , and neither milkman levies a delivery charge ( at least explicitly ) whereas the newsagent does . |
| 30 | Experience of life suggests that evil does ravage our capacity to listen to God and hear him ; it does lead to deterioration of character and to further separation from God . |