Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many people , though , who can not bear to delve too deeply into this vast and painful subject , although they are anxious to know enough about it to enable them to act wisely when called upon to support and console a relative who has suffered a major loss . |
| 2 | I do n't think I have ever before felt quite so much in control and it 's really a powerful sensation … ’ |
| 3 | The shoe feels exactly the same afterwards , which is the main reason runners want them resoled rather than buying a brand new pair . ’ |
| 4 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 5 | Would they accept what he had said and let them go rather than cause a scene ? |
| 6 | Apparently they had no friends , with the possible exception of Roger — and she had seen him stiffen slightly when referred to as ‘ old Rodge ’ . |
| 7 | However , it would certainly confuse the fox , thereby causing it to run erratically as described . |
| 8 | Its purpose is best served if the person concerned can take up this attitude , be with it for as long as is required , and then let it go again when stepping back into ordinary life , then there is no risk of becoming over-identified with it . |
| 9 | Rachel could have brought the snow in and let it melt so as to distract attention from herself . |
| 10 | Get them involved pro-actively as opposed to letting them sit there and snide at you cos they know more about it than you do . |
| 11 | The West has opted for letting it happen rather than making it happen |
| 12 | Not only would it make her feel almost as grown up as Paula and Louise , but Pete Jackson , with whom Sally was hopelessly in love , was certain to be there . |
| 13 | Those callings that live to the spirit of critical-path analysis might introduce more order and efficiency to homesteading , but they could also lead one to break rather than bend . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , he had cast the Marshal a grateful look when he saw him standing there as promised , watching with his big , slightly bulging eyes . |
| 15 | Have less hard cheese ; use it grated rather than having slabs of it . |
| 16 | You no longer signal when you 're pulling out to overtake , ( unless to warn fast-approaching traffic behind you ) ; nor do you signal right when pulling out from the kerb . |
| 17 | You will be better off saying your piece and seeing what happens rather than keep bottling things up . |
| 18 | Please permit her to do so as arranged with you by phone . |
| 19 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 20 | A good proportion of Rousettus 's clicks are clearly audible to us ( which by definition makes them sound rather than ultrasound : ultrasound is just the same as sound except that it is too high for humans to hear ) . |
| 21 | Obviously , they had made up their minds that they would have to make us eat rather than tell their bosses what had happened . |