Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking aerobically makes you slim and is the perfect weight-management system . |
| 2 | If there 's anything you want just let me know and I 'll do my best . |
| 3 | My famous dog Oggie , who has alternately made me hate and love him for 12 years , has passed his tendency for being naughty on to his children . |
| 4 | From the past , used to come there do you see and feed . |
| 5 | I 'm walking upstairs do you find that I open my sister 's bedroom door and there 's three Chinese girls , there you go , it 's on already |
| 6 | ‘ Ah well , in that case , I 'd better let you know that I 've asked Paul Spence to do some of the revision classes for your part of the course . ’ |
| 7 | The hostile rocks cape in the midst and partly on top of which Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin has been built also made me wonder whether skiers ever think about what might be underneath the snow they are skiing on . |
| 8 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 9 | If you have any of your class members attending please let them know that this payment is now due . |
| 10 | She was right in that he should have either let her die or executed her . |
| 11 | they were laughing and giggling up the corner and er , I mean I did go just to let them know that although I did say I would n't come to every meeting I was quite prepared to still do |
| 12 | In the following sentence , the effect introduced by the use of the to infinitive is even more striking : ( 190 ) … what he saw there made him falter and repeat himself and then suddenly to explode into a cry . |
| 13 | So I just get it cos I 've only heard you say that before I do n't actually really know what it meant . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd always hung around with boys , never really known any men — certainly no man had ever made me feel and think the dreadful things I felt and thought whenever I saw you ! ’ |
| 15 | She had never seen him come and she regarded him worriedly . |
| 16 | She wanted desperately to make him understand that she was n't the kind of girl Giles had labelled her . |
| 17 | Be very careful if offered fish as a ‘ pair ’ unless you have actually seen them breed and raise young , or you personally know the seller . |