Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regardless of our commitment to joint decision-making most of us will find that there are many decisions where we feel we lack either sufficient interest or qualification and are perfectly happy to leave those decisions to our partner , eg many men would feel primarily responsible for choosing a car but would prefer their wives to pick out the furniture , decorations and plan the kitchen . |
| 2 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 3 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 4 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ She 's begun to be difficult about going to bed , so I let her sleep there . ’ |
| 7 | Funny thing is the whole place seems to run better her way , so I let her get on with it . |
| 8 | It was not possible to hurry downhill in that half-light , so I made myself go slowly , and at last reached the beach and the end of the causeway . |
| 9 | But , you know , I had to live , so I made myself go out . |
| 10 | I 'll give you my home telephone number , and if you do n't find them until after I 've returned , and you 're not successful in persuading Suzie to go back to England , all I ask is that you let me know where I can contact her . |
| 11 | She did n't want to see what she had done to his craggy yet handsome face , so she made him go away . |
| 12 | So we really do have to fight fiercely , and to do that , of course , erm one of the things that we do I think most effectively is to bring waves of foreign journalists here to write about how beautiful erm Britain is and indeed into your area , into the Oxford area , erm we 've got the Canadian T V crew coming next week , who 'll be filming and erm making erm documentary films for Canadian T V , which should be screened fairly quickly . |
| 13 | That they make it sound as natural as breathing is something of an accomplishment . |
| 14 | ‘ and what I particularly like is the way that they make you feel so welcome . |
| 15 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 16 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 17 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 18 | Simply formulating a title of some sort can be a useful achievement , in that it helps you decide how you want to focus your writing . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 20 | Its unique lightweight design is incredibly simple — so simple that it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before ! |
| 21 | I just change the format a little bit here and there so it makes me write differently . |
| 22 | Which means that what did we say yesterday ? |
| 23 | They embraced briefly and I heard her say quietly , ‘ Remember I shall always love you and if there 's anything I can do or that you want , do n't be afraid to come to me . ’ |
| 24 | And then I thought oh that 's Clayton coming in as well and then I thought no it is n't , he 's going out and I heard him go out . |
| 25 | After a while he went out into the hall and I heard him pick up the thing that makes noises and which he talks into when there 's no-one here . |
| 26 | This body of mine in which I had taken no pleasure or pride , he was honouring , saying to it , ‘ I love you , I love you , I love you , ’ believing me to be asleep , and I let him go on believing . |
| 27 | This he had turned into what looked like a camera shop and I let him get well ahead before starting my take-off . |
| 28 | Dad and Mum were out , and I let him come up with me while I changed and then , well , there I was in my bra , and we kissed . |
| 29 | On some days when it looks good and I let it dry naturally it goes curly . |
| 30 | Only once do I allow a man to stay the night , and I make him sleep upstairs . |