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 . |