Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 2 | ‘ Thank you for allowing me to go through his papers . ’ |
| 3 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 4 | In another instance , a Portsmouth docker 's daughter had grown close to her grandmother through helping her go out to shop or visit , or just sitting with her — ‘ her and I were never separated . ’ |
| 5 | To John , for taking the snaps , and to all the others for keeping us going with cups of tea . |
| 6 | Which ever way we look at it , its nature 's way of keeping us going , its , its what 's there to keep us surviving as a species , so its , its very clever , the , it worked , worked , nature worked it out very cleverly indeed that we should have this wonderful passion for someone and it should become love and then we should have children and then it becomes a , the whole cycle and that 's , that 's how it all goes . |
| 7 | I think its a bit of a simplification to say that its , its nature 's way of keeping us going , because actually er ro , the idea that romantic love is the start of a life long relationship that produces off spring is really quite recent , erm for , for most of history er marriage 's were on the basis of continuing er lines , continuing property and people had to erm some how or other cope with living with ano another person that might not necessarily have been the person that they would of chosen from love and , and this is still true in many societies and situations now . |
| 8 | In terms of an apparently satisfactory way of explaining what goes on we are far less confident than in the good old days of AIDA — but at least we know that AIDA was as inadequate as a theory as her operatic namesake was ill-starred in love . |
| 9 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 10 | The other sister , Mary , was four years younger than Eleanor , and Froissart tells the story that Thomas took responsibility for educating Mary in the hope of persuading her to go into a nunnery , so that he would receive the entire Bohun inheritance . |
| 11 | But not even the acknowledgement of that could make the pain of losing him go away . |
| 12 | The fingers tightened round her arm , biting deep into her flesh as she continued to struggle , and Fran knew as clearly as she knew her own name that he had no intention of letting her go . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't believe it ! ’ he cried , but held on to her firmly so that she had a very concrete impression that , if it happened that it was the truth , he had no intention of letting her go , not now . |
| 14 | The red bitch 's jaws were clamped to his leg in an iron grip and she 'd no intention of letting him go . |
| 15 | ‘ We have no intention of letting him go and I would like him to stay on after his present contract expires . |
| 16 | Graham still bore the mental scars of his tragedy but he had proved to be an excellent operative and Philpott had no intention of letting him go . |
| 17 | ‘ We were on the verge of letting him go because we had George Reilly and a couple of other strikers on the books . |
| 18 | He refused to take the responsibility of letting me go with only fifteen , and intended to recall his men . |
| 19 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 20 | These guidelines shape who we are , our beliefs , values and attitudes , and we are understandably terrified of letting them go , whether we react in compliance with them or against them . |
| 21 | Are you capable of letting it go and walking away ? |
| 22 | This can be difficult because the consumer has no means of knowing what goes on ( or went on ) in the factory . |
| 23 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 24 | To find out , we need empirical and statistical techniques for sampling what goes on in offices . |
| 25 | I told myself , she loves me , yes , but she 's having sensible second thoughts about getting something going with a washed-up ex-racing driver . ’ |
| 26 | Corporal Steve Giles has somehow talked his Platoon Commander into letting him go on a familiarisation helicopter flight around the Sector perimeter . |
| 27 | Neither Croatia nor Slovenia could afford to bribe Serbia into letting them go . |
| 28 | ‘ Mr Edgar will blame me for letting her go to your house . ’ |
| 29 | Philip was sick with himself for letting him go . |
| 30 | And Mum : Mum , thanks for letting me go to the fair . ’ |