Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 But there will be situations where you really feel you may be defending a lost cause , because after all things do go quite disastrously wrong .
2 And it 's not just the businesses that are obviously involved with the tourist industry , because after all visitors do spend money .
3 This was how the visual comedy of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was conceived , although this was not to be the opening episode of the series ; Michael Mills felt the couple needed to be introduced in another story , which saw Frank go for a job as a door-to-door salesman — one of many jobs — and bungle the practice session in his own inimitable way .
4 Ware , widely regarded as Britain 's top TV stunt artist and arranger , ran an agency called Havoc , which advised Crawford on his dangerous routines throughout the first two series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em .
5 Although Crawford had intended to do only one series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , for fear of becoming typecast , the impact of Frank Spencer persuaded him to make another six episodes , which were broadcast at the end of 1973 .
6 As the second series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was about to begin , he drove to Birmingham to appear as a guest celebrity in the TV show What 's My Line .
7 After a year 's break , Crawford was back at the BBC , making a final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and a play that would show his more serious side to a large audience in the way that only television could do .
8 Before making another series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , he starred in a BBC Play for Today double-bill , Private View and Audience , under the umbrella title Sorry …
9 Crawford was seen in Play for Today after the first two episodes in the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had already been shown .
10 Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must .
11 When the third series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em ended , Crawford decided to hang up Frank Spencer 's beret and raincoat for ever .
12 Dr Sharp , part of the ear nose and throat team writing in the British Medical Journal , reported that the hearing of some patients did improve a little after wax removal , but there was n't a dramatic change .
13 Predictably , a greater than average proportion of such children do develop symptoms of schizophrenia — or of some related ‘ borderline ’ condition , such as schizotypal personality disorder .
14 Although definitions of ‘ poverty ’ and adequate nutrition were ( and are ) debatable , the accumulation of these findings did make an impression and convinced more people of the need for family allowances , particularly when viewed against the background of a declining population at home and the pro-natalist policies of our competitors abroad .
15 All of these predictions do match real usage as shown in ( 66 ) and ( 67 ) ( underlining , on this occasion , indicates the section of the structure which is to be questioned ) ; we add ( 68 ) to offer the parallel with an explicit clause : ( 66 ) she needs the application translated what does she need ? ( 67 ) ( a ) I would consider the tea-boy ( to be ) reliable what would you consider the tea-boy to be ? ( 67 ) ( b ) I would consider the tea-boy ( to be ) reliable who would you consider ( to be ) reliable
16 All of these mosaics do exhibit more general affinities , however .
17 There are even differences between cultures in the development of task and maintenance behaviours , even though the actual emergence of these roles does appear to be universal .
18 But one aspect of the history of these years does deserve to be recalled .
19 of all divers seen have been moving east up the coast .
20 And many of those things do have dangers attached to them but they also have , potentially , a bit of f er er fun attached
21 Another mishap , this time from his younger days , might have found its way into Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em .
22 Initiates into these clubs did undertake to join in deeds most foule to Christian Man .
23 Casual observation gives grounds for suspicion that excessive spending under these heads does take place , though establishing definitively the absence of an underlying profit justification is obviously problematical .
24 However , although we believe that a reform along these lines does offer the best way forward , it is appropriate to note some of the possible drawbacks .
25 James Cossins , who had worked with Crawford on stage in The Anniversary and in the film How I Won the War , remembered his guest appearance in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em as a pompous man running a public relations weekend course that Frank attended .
26 Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game .
27 258 it had been held that a request for money in such circumstances did constitute an offence under the Larceny Act 1916 , s.29(1) ( i ) .
28 Furthermore , it is said , as native speakers of a language seem able to recognize correct and incorrect sentences , the idea of there being language rules exemplified in such sentences does seem to correspond to some kind of reality , even if people do not always speak according to these abstracted rules .
29 But given the fact that names in such cases do behave as rigid designators , the question is , does the referential rigidity provide a sufficient criterion for distinguishing names from descriptions , and the answer to this clearly must be that it does not .
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