Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I 'll go and give mum and dad a quick ring and then let them know . |
| 2 | Open her mouth and just let her suck it . |
| 3 | Take in breath quickly through the mouth and then let it escape in an even hiss . |
| 4 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 5 | They was on making a good living and still do I think . |
| 6 | Anything which makes rigging and de-rigging more difficult increases the risk of someone getting tired of holding up a wing-tip and so letting it droop or even drop . |
| 7 | Want to sort of put on the top of the wardrobe and then make it drop |
| 8 | They forced him to draw money from a cash machine and then made him drive to his home in Moulton where they threatened his parents with a kitchen knife . |
| 9 | The Chairman , Charles Holmes , Vice Chairman Frank Scott , Secratary John Potter , their wives and all the other members we met gave us an exceptionally warm welcome and instantly made us feel at home . |
| 10 | It sets the scene and then helps us work together to improve our situation . |
| 11 | Viewer , the add-in that lets you see the contents of files still on disk , has been improved and now allows the import of ASCII text and now lets you save the current worksheet and retrieve a new file in a single command — so reducing the risk of +:F7 you loosing the work you had just been doing before using it ! |
| 12 | When I went to that stress management course we were told to use physical resources like deep breathing and actually making yourself sit down and making yourself go floppy . |
| 13 | If we stopped trying to rig the market in money and instead let it change hands between willing borrowers and willing lenders , its price would certainly tumble and might just about halve . |
| 14 | Kelly stared at the pathetic figure for a moment and then let him go . |
| 15 | He squeezed her hand for a moment and then let it go . |
| 16 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |
| 17 | We 're sticking to our original plan , and they 'll have to accept it , although I sometimes think that , if we knew we were about to die , I 'd rather post Oliver through the nearest letter-box and just let him take pot luck . |
| 18 | Using mirrored doors also helped to add light to the room and now makes it appear more spacious . |
| 19 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 20 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a COSE desktop toolkit . |
| 21 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a Common Open Software Environment desktop toolkit . |
| 22 | The horse must be taught to lower his head which in turn will loosen his back and so help him understand how to engage his hocks . |
| 23 | Note that to get the divisions to operate as we wish , all we have to do is to impose a transfer price and then let them get on with it . |
| 24 | She led Midnight to a clear patch and then let him walk on the long rein , so that she stayed still and he walked round her in a circle at the end of the rein . |
| 25 | ‘ He taught me how to tie a package with very little twine and very little paper and still make it look nice , ’ Walton later recalled . |
| 26 | Also , what you generally find is that if somebody is reading as opposed to refreshing their memory from looking at a piece of paper and then letting it flow , if they 're reading from it it 's dull , it lacks sparkle . |
| 27 | And I remember just sort of leaping onto some grass and just letting it go , you know , could of been . |
| 28 | Maria made a tiny whimpering sound as Luke moved a hand to the tautness of one high breast and then let it drop to rest a moment on her lap . |
| 29 | The staff , too , could see her moves to stroke the dog and finally let me approach her . |
| 30 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |