Example sentences of "[verb] thing [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I am allowed to say I was deeply disappointed , because he let things go on which I 've never seen before in my time back in England . |
| 2 | All my life , she thought , I have let things pass me by . |
| 3 | Because she was so uncomplaining , he had let things slide . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'll see I have n't let things slide , ’ he said to Carrie , when she was helping him put the shelves straight . |
| 5 | Your wicked Uncle has let things slide ! |
| 6 | Miss Cress should not think she had let things go . |
| 7 | ‘ I know the Japanese are a very clean race , very keen on hygiene , but they had let things go towards the finish and we had to get their working parties to clean the ditches out . ’ |
| 8 | He had let things take their course , like a rider letting go the reins . |
| 9 | Obviously , through the years , Rachaela had let things slip . |
| 10 | ‘ The Italian referee let things go that do n't happen in this country . |
| 11 | ‘ How many times must I tell you that if you let things go too far , nobody can stop what will undoubtedly happen ? |
| 12 | The message was clear : ‘ Let things cool off for a while . ’ |
| 13 | So why not just let things flow on . |
| 14 | Gardening is how I let things wash over me . ’ |
| 15 | Such is our conclusion if we passively let things take their course . |
| 16 | Microchips also let things happen at inhuman speed . |
| 17 | He would have applauded the wisdom of Jung 's ‘ Let things happen . ’ |
| 18 | You prefer to take a more liberal view and just let things happen naturally without keeping a tally ? ’ |
| 19 | You should try not to feel so tense and let things get on top of you . |
| 20 | ‘ I ought never to have kissed you or let things get to this stage , ’ Julia admitted . |
| 21 | I let things get to me . |
| 22 | If I was in charge on the Brit side , I 'd give a little rope , let things get started , then arrest everybody in sight . |
| 23 | If you really let things slip , Maxi-Read reports a figure of 999 as a flag to indicate that sentence complexity is far too high . |
| 24 | ‘ We let things slip badly against Ireland . ’ |
| 25 | You let things lapse for a few days more . |
| 26 | But faith has always played a big part in the game , and in France they have often made things happen simply by believing . |
| 27 | The unfortunate phrasing of his sentence hardly made things sound any better . |
| 28 | I know he 's dead and that , but we could do things like , I du n no , like when you put flowers on someone 's grave when they died . |
| 29 | I came from a pretty poorish background and now it 's nice to be able to give my parents money , and let them do things like go on holiday . |
| 30 | They can do things like tell you black is white and nuclear power is safe . |