Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun sg] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home .
2 He was n't the imaginative kind , and a man does know how he puts down his own tools .
3 And a and a memo did go out .
4 We even had a hot line set up between the reception at London Weekend and Number 10 , and a call did come through , but thankfully it was after we 'd done the show , when she was having a drink in the hospitality room .
5 The only requirements are patience , a willingness to learn and a readiness to let go of the habits of a lifetime .
6 I never did lose any at all , but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay .
7 But a state does act that way when it accepts a Solomonic checkerboard solution ; it is inconsistency in principle among the acts of the state personified that integrity condemns .
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