Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An individual event which normally gives a particular ERP may sometimes yield nothing and the ERP may sometimes occur in the absence of the evoking event . |
| 2 | Bringing back capital punishment would do nothing if the drug problem was not solved . |
| 3 | Bringing back capital punishment would do nothing if the drug problem was not solved . |
| 4 | The illustrations must do something that the text has not done or that the text can not do : ‘ You must never illustrate exactly what is written . |
| 5 | Thou shalt do everything that the church says thou shalt not . |
| 6 | Anyway we went up there but we could n't do anything because the ground had taken fire do you see , all this peat . |
| 7 | ‘ Call yourself Mamur Zapt and you ca n't do anything when the woman you claim you love pleads to you for justice ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't do anything if the team does n't do things for me . ’ |
| 9 | But now , Holly , you 're in Hut 2 of ZhKh 385/3/I , and nobody did do anything and the hut is reality . |
| 10 | Well cos , for the sake of ten days there er er er erm Martin was gon na fix the problem , erm within ten days but we do n't wan na have to go back and reprint everything cos the unit statement 's perfectly valid . |
| 11 | Why should women believe anything that the Government say ? |
| 12 | Dare we believe anything that the Secretary of State for Wales will say ? |
| 13 | ‘ I said I did n't want one and the nurse said ‘ Why are you down here anyway ? ’ |
| 14 | You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying . |
| 15 | He probably did not hear anything until the intruder was doing the bedroom … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Asking the wrong question ’ or ‘ irrelevancy ’ tell one that an error has been made , but they do not tell one whether the error is jurisdictional . |
| 17 | ‘ Asking the wrong question ’ or ‘ irrelevancy ’ tells one that an error has been made but it does not tell one whether the error is jurisdictional . |
| 18 | She did n't tell anyone that the woman called Benny was stealing away from the group ; had found one of the perimeter doors ; had slipped through it , and had gone . |
| 19 | 8 Do n't let the student imitate anyone but the teacher . |
| 20 | He politely declined to pose for pictures with Nesta and added : ‘ I have nothing else to say today … but I will say plenty when the time comes . ’ |