Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that both incomers and Shetlanders presumed that the researchers did have a clearcut image of conflict in the area and that they were just fiddling about trying to show it , rather than attempting to do something about it ( e.g. putting the incomers somewhere else , helping out the incomers for once , etc . ) . |
| 2 | Districts can buy what they want from a nearby district or a teaching hospital rather than attempt to provide everything in their own area . |
| 3 | It follows that any strategy to protect them and to ensure their future must include all these aspects , rather than attempt to protect one at the expense of others . |
| 4 | In so far as Hartman 's book wants to be read as a form of fiction , one can make the adverse literary-critical point that the prose is dense and cloyingly arch , with a crooning , caressing quality about it , suggesting the tone of a man talking quietly and earnestly to himself rather than trying to communicate anything to others . |
| 5 | There is a general rule that the holder may disclose information held in confidence if necessary to protect his own interests , and it may be that disclosure is justified if needed to protect someone from harm . |
| 6 | he peered into the envelope as if hoping to find something worth having inside , then glanced swiftly through the letter and having read it flipped it and the envelope , with a gesture of disgust , to the ground . |
| 7 | Others ask why the West responded to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait while failing to do anything about Israel 's occupation of Arab land . |