Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] [coord] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Lord said to Abraham , ‘ Why did Sarah laugh and say ‘ Shall I indeed bear a child when I am old ? ’ |
| 2 | Slowly let your fingers unfurl and let the barbell roll down to your fingertips . |
| 3 | We were also surprised and disappointed that some of the reporting of the conference seemed to trivialise the issues in a way that is only too familiar us — these are age old techniques which help oppression remain and flourish . |
| 4 | Once the dry rot attacking the building has been dealt with , they plan to create music , drama , craft and local history rooms on the upper floors to help clients explore and develop their creativity . |
| 5 | Croner has published Environmental management , to help industry identify and meet its increasing environmental obligations . |
| 6 | The troublesome lamps flank the couch , where constituents sit and watch their congressman appear and disappear ; and the only thing that saved Orton from rushing to the floor to cast phantom votes when his clock buzzer went off was the fall-back alarm system , a personal bleeper . |
| 7 | When your voice is ‘ forward ’ , this should make the lips vibrate and cause a tingling sensation . |
| 8 | And to her shame and horror Shiona felt her nipples tighten and press hard against the softness of her dress . |
| 9 | She lay watching the eyes appear and disappear . |
| 10 | She lay watching the eyes appear and disappear . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) Does the witness understand why you need their help and how their evidence will help your client obtain justice ? ( 2 ) Does the witness understand and accept that they may be required to give evidence in court and under oath ? ( 3 ) Have you done all that you can to ensure that the witness is put to as little trouble and expense as possible ? |
| 12 | Sit comfortably in a chair consciously letting your shoulders drop and move outward to widen the chest . |
| 13 | If sterling were not in Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) , the chancellor , Norman Lamont , might be tempted to cut interest rates , let the pound slide and worry about the inflationary consequences later . |
| 14 | When that disk is in a drive the drive head to read the disk which causes a small fire inside disk drive ha ha ha ha , let the fuckhead try and fix that . |
| 15 | The reason for using cold water is that hot water will make the blood congeal and make it harder to get out of the needle and syringe . |
| 16 | It made Bella shriek and wave her arms about and it set Joe drumming his fingers on the table with that quiet disapproval that was worse than anything Bella could do . |
| 17 | As he ran he grabbed a torch , and Tallis watched its flame bob and weave into the darkness , soon lost among the trees . |
| 18 | No , she would enjoy this evening , she would let André entertain and amuse her , and she would not give in to useless introspection . |
| 19 | In a warm blizzard of drowsiness he watches the snow sud and curdle over the roofs and spires of the New Town , mounting up the slope of Old Odborough , up the hill of the Main Street , till it reaches Mount Pleasant . |
| 20 | Mary Finnigan : It was at this time , when David flew out to Malta , then not only were we organising the Arts Lab but a free open air festival in Beckenham , David , having flown out to the Maltese song festival had sent Angie a postcard saying something to the effect that he was going to be in Italy and why did n't Angie come and join him , which she did , leaving me to sort out both the folk club and the free festival organised for Beckenham Park the following Sunday . ’ |
| 21 | And they said erm if you would like to see the designs write and ask for a sample so we wrote and I have n't actually received any samples yet . |
| 22 | I opened the can and poured the Coke , and Mrs Young , who happened to be sitting alone at the next table , turned round and said to Xanthe sweetly that she , Mrs Young , would pay for the Coke , and would n't Xanthe come and join her ? |
| 23 | ‘ Let the vixen come and face us , and beg from us here ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Are you all right ? ’ he demanded , and Maria made the shocked discovery that the mere sound of his voice could still make her pulses leap and race , and her heart clench with love and longing . |
| 25 | I am particularly pleased to have seen these relationships mature and strengthen . |
| 26 | Ronni felt her blood leap and burn within her as he held it for a moment , squeezing gently , then , almost as though the gesture was an afterthought , allowing his thumb to graze lightly against the burning peak . |
| 27 | They are basic to the growing subject of computational linguistics , which aims to let computers talk and make sense of human language ; but before that arose , they proved invaluable for computer languages like Basic , Pascal and Prolog . |
| 28 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 29 | They took a soaking no doubt relieved in an attitude of ‘ rather you than me , mate ’ as they watched the canoeists jump and sit in one motion the way they had practised boarding . |
| 30 | He missed wandering about the corridors but the thought of walking made his feet throb and ache even more . |