Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yes she keep , goes on and do you know three times a day that poor dog walks |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Now come , Wilson , ’ he said , ‘ sit down and let us talk about this sensibly . ’ |
| 4 | No I always sit down and do me work but sometimes people just distract me all the time . |
| 5 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 6 | New books and dictionaries are expected to contain the new spellings , while Proust , Racine and the rest will gradually be re-edited so as to make them conform . |
| 7 | The Audi was only yards from her now and Donna decided to pull in and let it pass . |
| 8 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
| 9 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I would say to children , ‘ Do you want your father to come home or do you want to go to a funeral as an orphan ? ’ |
| 11 | You are all I 've got , all I 've got left to build my life on ; my life has been one long frustration , and to stand aside and see you throw yourself away on scum like … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
| 13 | You want to scream out and make them stop it , and you want to cringe up your body and hide it somewhere , and there 's nowhere to hide , and the shells keep screaming down and blowing everything up all around you . |
| 14 | I 'm happier to stand back and let him do his bit and I 'll do my bit , as long as we 're talking to each other . |
| 15 | ‘ So I 'm not going to stand by and let you use me and destroy me as you did my brother ! ’ |
| 16 | Would we like to come upstairs and help him fly his pigeons until Dr Jaffery arrived for iftar , the meal eaten at sunset each day during Ramadan ? |
| 17 | We do n't know yet but let us see how we go . |
| 18 | Now detectives can only hope that publicity surrounding the funeral will encourage someone to come forward and help them catch the murderer . |
| 19 | ‘ We would ask them to come forward and help us solve this terrible killing . ’ |
| 20 | It 's those people we 'd appeal to come forward and help us indentify their items . |
| 21 | She wanted the world to go away and let her live with her lover in a secret palace , give herself over to his embrace , to be beyond responsibility and care and hard work and sanity . |
| 22 | When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room . |
| 23 | A waiter came up and made him put it on again . |
| 24 | If you have failed to brief them properly then they have little option but to either put it on hold or send it back as it came out and let you sort it out . |
| 25 | If you got home and let them go , slosh water into them , you 'd soon have some dead 'uns . ’ |
| 26 | run on or does it come to a grinding fucking cock up ? and that 's what I think will happen when is not there |
| 27 | I think this happened in when did it happen this in between and Jericho , somewhere around that region , where was it |
| 28 | While I was in a single room , what I used to do was get hold of sani towels and put my dog ends in and let them smoulder and wave them out the hatch . |
| 29 | Styles and designs vary greatly but to help you make your choice please note : |
| 30 | so I give in and let her come . |