Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | run on or does it come to a grinding fucking cock up ? and that 's what I think will happen when is not there |
| 2 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 3 | Selkirk pushed him in and made him squat on a stone ledge while he cut free his bound hands only to fasten gyves to his wrists and ankles ; attached by chains to the wall ; these allowed Corbett to move but quickly chafed his wrists and ankles . |
| 4 | But he refused to take no for an answer and after a few unseemly tussles Sally decided it was easier to give in and let him explore inside the leg of her panties . |
| 5 | but I ai n't had chance to say to you , but I was saying to cos when I called in and see you think about it he |
| 6 | Now put her down and let her run about . |
| 7 | Sometimes I lay down and let them dance on my hand , and from time to time children came to play games in my hair . |
| 8 | They would salt them down and let them lie in the brine for a while and they would take them out and dry them . |
| 9 | ‘ Now come , Wilson , ’ he said , ‘ sit down and let us talk about this sensibly . ’ |
| 10 | get off the wave either by sailing down ahead of it or by slowing down and letting it pass under you . |
| 11 | ‘ Please , ’ she asked , genuinely fearful now , it seemed to Hope , who relished the fact , ‘ will you sit down and let me talk to you ? ’ |
| 12 | She 'll lie down and let him walk over her till the end of her days . |
| 13 | To ‘ catch ’ it you might have to slow down and let it come towards you . |
| 14 | The invisible forces brought us together and made us waltz to an unheard tune . |
| 15 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 16 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 17 | Write so that he can not twist your meaning so as to make you agree to opinions the opposite of those you hold . |
| 18 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 19 | She heard rather than saw him dive into the water and a moment later he surfaced beside her . |
| 20 | As Adam Smith remarks in 1759 : ‘ When a person comes into his chamber , and finds the chairs all standing in the middle of the room , he is angry with his servant , and rather than see them continue in that disorder , perhaps takes the trouble himself to set them all in their places with their backs to the wall . |
| 21 | They were prepared to kill the journalist Broom-Parker rather than let him talk to me . |
| 22 | Your parents hate it and would gladly lynch this band rather than let them dabble with your adolescent hormones that ca n't help wanting to shag them senseless in a vat of cold custard . |
| 23 | Rather than let you go to the contessa I thought it wise to let you waste an hour or two at the museum . ’ |
| 24 | You see this thing did you buy this separately or did it come in the Walkman ? |
| 25 | And does this thing go away or does it stay for ? |
| 26 | ‘ Aline , be a dear sweet girl and go away and let me die in peace . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | His superiority over them can not but make them seem to us inferior , innocent , or naïve , dupes who trust too easily and are soon outwitted . |
| 29 | Not but do you think like something like that , what do you think the school 's responsibility is ? |
| 30 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |