Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of 10 minute routines will not only make you look and feel in better shape but supplement your fitness . |
| 2 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 3 | Doing so allows them to experience and interact with their environment and other people . |
| 4 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 5 | He was in better spirits and colour now , for he had been out walking several times with Luch since she had gently persuaded him to dress and go to the wedding . |
| 6 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 7 | Or do they merely invite us to count and compare our scars ? |
| 8 | She had the feeling that if she could only get him to turn and look at her she 'd recognise him . |
| 9 | Not only did he build and restore churches and monasteries , but also he repaired the city walls ; he corresponded with Caesarius of Clermont about laying underground water-pipes , and he was responsible for severing road-communications with the south to prevent the spread of plague . |
| 10 | In 1785 alone , not only did he survey and engrave the series of charts mentioned above , but he also found time to make a series of estate plans for Patrick Kerr of Abbotrule ( which Kerr failed to pay for ) , to survey a line for a canal from the Forth to the Clyde for Robert Whitworth , and to engrave several plans for the court of session in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | Oh yes not too far away so did you go and see him often ? |
| 12 | Almost , but not quite , enough to make me go and buy a set of reproduction Book-of-Hours Christmas cards from a small-format ‘ gift ’ catalogue … . |
| 13 | Right let me go and get the it 's next to the wall . |
| 14 | He would just make me go and wipe it all off . |
| 15 | just let me go and put the baby in the car and I 'll be back for you in a minute , alright ? |
| 16 | Just let me go and get the cups from the kitchen . |
| 17 | Oh it was funny with Alison when I first saw her on when she was still a terrible state she let it all out in a great scream and I just let her talk and talk and talk |
| 18 | always ask me never never just let it go and think , Oh well perhaps I 'll understand it later . |
| 19 | See at I can just let her go and play out on the park , or at anything , you know with the other kids , but round here you ca n't . |
| 20 | Why do n't you just let me come and live up here as your guest ? |
| 21 | She says she could walk away from it all tomorrow ; ‘ I could just let it go and start all over again . |
| 22 | He was to add that the French should also be glad to be allied to the Scots , ‘ for from Scotland we may repulse the English , and from thence enter easily into their country , which gives no great odds against them , and thus enables us to curb and check them . ’ |
| 23 | Those who misinterpret this in the interests of encouraging a ‘ leap of faith ’ also ignore the fact that Jesus still invited him to touch and see , unnecessary as it was . |
| 24 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |
| 25 | He has come to discuss things with me on many occasions and I am always asking him to come and do just one concert with the orchestra . |
| 26 | They were always asking him to come and join them , although he did not like the sea and did not fish . |
| 27 | I looked at the buttons next to the fruit stall because what I usually do I go and get the fruit and vegetables , if Jim 's on the right shift he takes them home , otherwise I buy them while it 's quieter , the man keeps them for me , I go straight across the leisure centre to soft clay cos it 's only open on Wednesdays and then on the way back one of them walks |
| 28 | They were always changing them to try and balance up the take I suppose , on each , each leg of the route and there was always was the chief clerk then and him and I got on very well together and he really initiated me into running times . |
| 29 | ‘ Whether yer believe it or not , do n't ever let me see or know yer 've 'ad anything to do with 'er agen , ’ she concluded . |
| 30 | I probably told him to go and jump in the river . ’ |