Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 … ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Now detectives can only hope that publicity surrounding the funeral will encourage someone to come forward and help them catch the murderer . |
| 5 | ‘ We would ask them to come forward and help us solve this terrible killing . ’ |
| 6 | It 's those people we 'd appeal to come forward and help us indentify their items . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room . |
| 9 | If you got home and let them go , slosh water into them , you 'd soon have some dead 'uns . ’ |
| 10 | and I had Mike ironing them while I was putting 'em up , I said right stand here and watch me hang this curtain , so I 'm showing him how to iron it , so while I 'm upstairs putting 'em up he 's ironing |
| 11 | In the meantime , I 'd be really grateful if you 'd step aside and let me come on board for a while . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Then I 'll step aside and let you pass . ’ |
| 13 | There are those who skulk behind and let us run hither and thither while they watch what we find out . ’ |
| 14 | He does n't just provide us with a general description , he puts forward more significant details and makes us visualise clearly and lets us see for ourselves what it was like . |
| 15 | We 'll cut across and let you see a bit of inland Sardinia . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Aline , be a dear sweet girl and go away and let me die in peace . |
| 18 | Will you go away and let me have a serious discussion with my nephew without these constant interruptions ? |
| 19 | It seemed unbelievable that they would stand aside and let them leave like this . |
| 20 | Do you think I would stand aside and let you suffer , as my mother did ? |
| 21 | you stay here and let them go . |
| 22 | So after that I just lay there and let him do what he wanted and he would complain about that too . |
| 23 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |
| 24 | Are you gon na come home and help me dig this pond out then Mark ? |
| 25 | They should come forward and let us piece together the jigsaw . ’ |
| 26 | They should come forward and let us piece together the jigsaw . ’ |
| 27 | This time in the hotels I particularly noticed how many people of different tongues were also staying there — all babbling away and making me wonder who they were and where they had come from . |
| 28 | She looked down , then began to move on , forcing him to move aside and let her pass . |
| 29 | ‘ Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet , they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson , they shall be as wool . ’ |
| 30 | Martha , come here and help me look at his back ! ’ |