Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 2 | ‘ George Duffield let her breeze along for six furlongs on Saturday morning and she just flew . |
| 3 | Why does her brother Hindley let her run around with such a companion ? ’ wondered Mr Linton . |
| 4 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 5 | Let me carry on with this same erm position of John Major erm meeting the Russian president . |
| 6 | Let me shift out of third-person narrative . |
| 7 | Let me call in as assistant instructor none other than Mr Graham Greene , with the advice I have already mentioned from one of his books of autobiography . |
| 8 | Er let me come back on that issue the er |
| 9 | Seven expansion slots let you expand up to 16 MB RAM , add a fax board , fit a modem . |
| 10 | I let her go back to that flat . ’ |
| 11 | He watched George going into MacDougalls , let him settle down for three minutes and then he 'd strike . |
| 12 | I let it get up to seventy , and then broke the chain in my panic . |
| 13 | let it come out of that thing there . |
| 14 | Now let it rub off on greedy directors of other companies , especially those recently privatised , who have been giving themselves huge rises while keeping down workers ' pay . |
| 15 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 16 | We have already quoted part of the letter to Rohde , written in December , which gives the best testimony to Nietzsche 's state of mind : " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years … |
| 17 | ‘ In that case , ’ said Jaq , ‘ let us drop back into true space . ’ |
| 18 | MEDITATION can make you feel up to 10 years younger , says a new study , published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine , which measured hormone levels in more than 1,600 people . |
| 19 | Try processing all the relevant information contained in the problem to help you come up with one plausible explanation . |
| 20 | Only then will I be able to help you get out of this mess you seem to have got yourself into . ’ |
| 21 | Oh , I did n't see him go up at all . |
| 22 | ‘ To let you find out in such a way … |
| 23 | Not much danger of his Commander letting him slip up on that , he thought drily . |
| 24 | With and without the capital S. You 've heard him go on about those selective hierarchies ? ’ |
| 25 | Trevor has often wondered whether this made him grow up with silly fussy habits which irritated the girls with whom he would like to have been involved . |
| 26 | And if they come out with that line : ‘ Oh but mum , everyone else 's mum lets them stay out until three in the morning/hitch a lift home from Glastonbury/take the short cut across the meadow at night/ride a bike without wearing an orange band … ’ then find out what other parents really think . |
| 27 | Posi is equipped with the most advanced call-beam facility , which lets her link up with other servomechanisms and artificial intelligences , nearby or distant . |
| 28 | ‘ It blows my mind to see it come through like this . |
| 29 | What do I get out of this ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And what do I get out of this ? ’ |