Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half Fisherman 's rib is a stitch that does need good , even weighting . |
| 2 | A rule that does hold good , however , concerns crossing branches and stems ; these inevitably result in rubbed , chafed and damaged stems . |
| 3 | She was not primarily a warship but did carry eight ‘ patteroes ’ , anti-personnel guns which fired a lethal scattering of stones . |
| 4 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 5 | She had trained as a teacher and did supply teaching for Orkney Islands Council . |
| 6 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 7 | I think it 's part and parcel of sex , and so , yes , I do think it is very important and I think it is a process that does have to , have to be started very young , and is on-going throughout our education . |
| 8 | It was as if he was dropping a hint or letting slip a little clue thinking that one day someone would read his diaries just as I was doing . ’ |
| 9 | According to the Men 's Movement , second only to the father is the older male who will help teach a young man what it means to be a man and help remove him from his father 's influence . |
| 10 | And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite . |
| 11 | Is that that one that lives in a caravan or did live in one ? |
| 12 | I appreciate the minister 's difficulty representing the Home Office with no specific responsibility for these matters as far as er er Europe is concerned er but nevertheless this is a matter that does affect the electorate and one that I think the house should take er notice of . |
| 13 | A stocky , red-faced fellow with hairy warts round his mouth grinned a gap-toothed smile , pulled open a shutter and let fly with a huge arbalest . |
| 14 | Or if a wife was earning , working or had a pension and did use her allowances , but the husband was paying forty percent , the same switch of investments , transferring income to the wife , even though it was chargeable at twenty percent or twenty five , was relieving the husband 's forty percent . |
| 15 | A boring-bit and saw have been identified at cemeteries in East Anglia ( Wilson 1968 ; Dunning 1959 ) . |
| 16 | But would a a erm apprentice squad Was it known , or was it common , or was it known at all , for an apprentice squad to start off as apprentices like you start off in maybe four or five years become apprentice squad and work as a squad and do light jobs that you 're talking about , would |
| 17 | A note about symbols : the usual convention for the syllabic mark is that it should be placed below symbols that do not come below the line , for example , but above a symbol that does come below the line , for example . |
| 18 | I do n't see the SAS stopping its campaigning until the sewage problem is completely dealt with — the good thing is that this is a problem that does have a solution . |
| 19 | But in History , of course , what is called , other' is an alterity that does settle down , that falls into the dialectical circle . |
| 20 | During July , the entire area paid lasting tribute to an aircraft that helped open up not just this town , but hundreds like it all over Canada . |
| 21 | So I think it it is an issue that perhaps has n't been addressed in our discussions erm hitherto and and and seems to me from from past evidence to sugg to be an issue that does need to be to be looked at . |