Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; |
| 2 | The poet 's eyes ( according to Shakespeare 's Theseus ) " in a fine frenzy rolling , doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven " . |
| 3 | The first school he helped build at Khumjung in 1961 started with 40 pupils and one teacher — it now has 400 pupils and 17 teachers . |
| 4 | The exuberance that Minton helped generate at Camberwell was related to a deeper excitement animating the whole school . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 6 | as if he had let go of oars and rudder and now drifted on the dark current of events . |
| 7 | The Woman had let go of Tug 's shoulders as soon as the door opened . |
| 8 | There was also a walled kitchen garden , which had been let go to grass , and a large hole had been knocked into one of the walls to let the tractor in to mow it . |
| 9 | Some relationships have to be let go in order that new ones can flourish . |
| 10 | It let go of Delaney , screaming and clawing at its hooded eyes , as the spray added layer upon layer of foam . |
| 11 | She let go of Adam 's arm and rose ; then looked up at the man who stood there . |
| 12 | Instead he suffered an excruciating pain which made him clasp his heart , and he let go of Sarah so violently she crashed against the newel post . |
| 13 | But he let go of Troy 's neck , and listened . |
| 14 | He let go of Leila who rubbed her wrist , holding it close to her chest . |
| 15 | He remembered a homespun breast rough under his sleepy cheek , and an arm that cradled him , and the steady rocking of the horse under them on the long ride into the fringes of Wales that day ; and suddenly at parting the terrible knowledge in him that , if he let go of Master Harry now , he would never get him back again . |
| 16 | He let go of Garty and shouted : ‘ They be waiting for the Battle this half hour out in St Thomas 's Street . |
| 17 | She let go of Hester and Willie ran to his stepmother , flinging his arms around her . |
| 18 | Oh they they might do that but then er if you can be selective in other words I mean if they 've got competition and the competition 's advertising they 've got to come come to terms with that . |
| 19 | The Chronicle says that in 1009 an opportunity to fall on the enemy was let slip on account of Eadric , " as it always was " . |
| 20 | At the very centre of the ‘ precinct ’ ( pedestrianised in the 1960s ) , the architects have let rip with yards of steel rails , attached to posts and festooned with lights , encircling a ‘ performance area ’ . |
| 21 | She let fly at Geoffrey . |
| 22 | The Hanson chairman earned £1.239m ; the Lonrho chief made do with £1.015m . |
| 23 | Tomorrow never came , and we made do with bread , onions , and a form of processed cheese called La vache qui rit , the Laughing Cow . |
| 24 | David , who had been given a piece of her mind , returned sadly to a state of detumescence and made do with David Attenborough who at least was living vicariously . |
| 25 | She made do with Kleenex and blotted the black mascara off her face . |
| 26 | Incarcerated in Terry 's room , they made do with sandwiches for dinner , and endless cups of tea . |
| 27 | Right , Anthea 's not in her office right now , she 's in Eynsham , so it 'll take all of 75 seconds to get there , so she 'll make do with call parking it anyway . |
| 28 | And until he gets real power he 'll make do with deference — subservience even . |
| 29 | Sometimes youngsters must make do with teachers ' worksheets giving summaries of books they should be studying . |
| 30 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |