Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 2 | vii , ‘ One woe doth tread upon another 's heel ’ , DS 61 . |
| 3 | The most powerful were imprisoned ; traitors were beheaded and Catholic landowners like the Roscarrocks were fined so heavily that they were forced to sell property and make do with fewer and fewer servants . |
| 4 | My way would be to lay planks and make do with these until I had confirmed that it was in fact a good swim . |
| 5 | make do with this I thought , and then he 's and I did did n't I ? he 'd gone along and |
| 6 | I did n't fancy his biscuits , so I made do with some toast . |
| 7 | Returning now to monism v. pluralism , the central issue , expressed in terms of predicates , reduces to the question whether we can somehow make do without any polyadic predicates , except perhaps those of the " reflexive " variety ? |
| 8 | ‘ They might make do with that . ’ |
| 9 | We in Scotland must make do with such styles as we can accumulate in our professional careers and , by and large , the only other source of styles for non-statutory deeds is the Encyclopaedia of Scottish Legal Styles . |
| 10 | For one person to get more , another must make do with less . |
| 11 | PLEASE let know about any unsold tickets by Friday 8th November . |
| 12 | And how many other women had he made feel like that ? |
| 13 | What will he do look for another or |
| 14 | I was gon na do look in that did you say you looked in that Argos book for darts did you , or ? |
| 15 | So we well this week on Tuesday we 're erm going swim and spa and Rosemary and Anne and all them er Maggie they 're , they are all there so this is what we 're gon na do try for this week and see what it 's like , you know go through all the system there . |
| 16 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 17 | After a bit we let go of each other . |
| 18 | Let go of that one please . |
| 19 | He prodded once more his attaché case — which I felt inclined to keep my eyes averted from — and said : ‘ I suppose you 've been wondering why I never let go of this case . |
| 20 | Yet we experience a great sense of loss , if we only let go of this intellect reluctantly and in fact would rather nurture it than shed it . |
| 21 | Disgust vibrated in her voice as she suddenly let go of some clearly banked-up and held-back emotion . |
| 22 | You 're preaching individuality , intactness , but people let go of these things when they love . |
| 23 | But when I let go of these weapons , how can I fight for my people ? ’ |
| 24 | No one can be healed if at one level ( often on an unconscious level ) they do not wish to be healed , or if they can not trust , or let go of any fears that may be blocking the flow of healing energies . |
| 25 | In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person . |
| 26 | The children at the village school eyed the blank windows speculatively , and the bigger boys fingered the catapults hidden in their pockets , longing to pick up pebbles and let fly at this beautiful sitting target . |
| 27 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 28 | You would n't dare behave like this if your father were still alive . ’ |
| 29 | Eliot must have heard of his arrest during or just after his visit to Paris at the beginning of that month since , on his return , he immediately sent a cable to Archibald MacLeish , the poet who was then Assistant Secretary of State , saying that he was eager to help Pound in any way he could . |
| 30 | The fact that manual workers married on average , and throughout the period , about a year earlier helped contribute to this , as did the fact that there was about fifty per cent more childlessness among non-manual families . |