Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 2 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 3 | They did n't like the EVO column one bit and finally they made me choose between them and it . ’ |
| 4 | Ten minutes later she drove into the main entrance of Conway House and gradually she felt her anger ebb away . |
| 5 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 6 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 7 | And then of course we had the mower and then we got a binder and now I see they 've er a harvester . |
| 8 | But Travis was as immovable as a mountain , and angrily she let him go . |
| 9 | In his " titanic struggle with the Shipping Federation , Wilson was utterly reckless in his statements , with the result that writs for libel were showered upon him and often we helped him escape being served with those most unpleasing documents by giving him a " leg up " over the backyard wall " . |
| 10 | No problem when you 're switching round , okay , and then we do something like erm , let's say we do ten takeaway seven ? |
| 11 | And then they make you do it — with a gun pointed at the back of your neck . |
| 12 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 13 | yeah , yeah I must admit it 's a poor do when they know exactly where the criminal 's going to be at a certain time and then they let 'em go |
| 14 | For the length of a heartbeat his tall figure remained stiff and unyielding , and then she heard him swear harshly under his breath , and felt his strong arms enfolding her trembling figure . |
| 15 | Her lips parted to tell him so , and then she heard herself say , to her own amazement , ‘ Take me to Les Hiboux , please . ’ |
| 16 | And then she felt him move away and she lifted her head and saw that he was going towards the door . |
| 17 | His Mum went to open it and then he heard it close again . |
| 18 | And then he saw them come into the amber flicker of the firelight with the flames lighting green lamps in their heads . |
| 19 | And then he let her go . |
| 20 | His hands tightened on her for an instant , and then he let her go . |
| 21 | And then you see you come along where you 're pushing them to live on their own and you make suggestions . |
| 22 | As he tried to grab me , I feinted , slipped back to make him follow me , knowing he would think I was afraid , and then I let him have a classic straight left that hit him on the point of the jaw . |
| 23 | And sometimes he lets me pull the strings . |
| 24 | Ibrahim 's got a video and sometimes he lets me watch it . |
| 25 | Sometimes this pleased him and sometimes it made him feel frightened , though he could not have said why . |
| 26 | Sometimes she piled it up , sometimes she pulled it forward in a fringe , and sometimes she let it hang straight , like her mother 's . |
| 27 | Ignoring the dig , Lucy said , ‘ Paula keeps a small sailing boat with an outboard motor , and now and again she lets me use it . |
| 28 | I wanted desperately to be with him , to comfort him , but somehow I made myself keep walking , and when a coach passed , I arranged to travel on it as far as my money would pay for . |
| 29 | Lewis thinks he has a scoop , but once we let everyone know the truth then he 'll have nothing left to play around with . |
| 30 | But dimly she heard him say again , ‘ Are n't you going to let me in ? ’ |