Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normal verbs , of course , use the auxiliary or helping verb do : I run — I do not run . |
| 2 | Should he talk to her now , he wondered , or let Hank do it ? |
| 3 | ‘ I ought never to have kissed you or let things get to this stage , ’ Julia admitted . |
| 4 | Erm , so if anybody would like to erm put their hand up that would like to go to Denman this coming year er , please do so or let Margaret know . |
| 5 | She did not observe Eochaid , therefore , as he sat quietly watching the King with his stepson , or hear Lulach say , smiling , ‘ You would like to shoot an apple from my head , like Palnatoke , and perhaps miss . |
| 6 | I had decided when in Rome to do as the Romans or in this case , more appropriately , when in Babylon do as the Babylonians — no , I do n't mean I 'm having orgies in the servants ’ quarters , or letting Gooseneck have his way with me . |
| 7 | I was bitterly ashamed of what I was doing , or letting people do to me , but also of course I got to like it , and even crave it , in a manner of speaking . |
| 8 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 9 | This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs . |
| 10 | Dickens also has this habit of making people out to be machines , or making objects become alive . |
| 11 | An America that stopped trying to ‘ solve ’ the conflict could still try to keep it manageable : by promoting arms control , say , or making Israel treat the Palestinians more gently . |
| 12 | The district was determined to get action on long-standing problems , for example , reducing waiting times in certain specialities , or making clinicians travel to patients for outpatient clinics at a peripheral community hospital , rather than make patients travel to the DGH . |
| 13 | Has fertility changed mostly because successive cohorts each grow up with their own characteristic attitude to childbearing ( ‘ cohort ’ effects ) , or do families respond in a more opportunistic way to the economic and social opportunities or problems of the moment ( ‘ period ’ effects ) ? |
| 14 | Was Mario Ángel already born then , or did Rosalli give birth to him afterwards ? ’ |
| 15 | Or does Julie use that sort of language ? |
| 16 | If he plays , who drops out of the midfield which did so well in Albania — or does Wilson move up front alongside the impressive Philip Gray — or Iain Dowie ! |
| 17 | She did n't see Jack appear at the end of the corridor behind her , or see Mick lift his head and meet the level gaze . |
| 18 | And people think more of you if you have nice things — as if you 'd once had a ‘ beautiful home ’ , ’ she gave the words a slightly scornful emphasis that made Ianthe feel uncomfortable . |
| 19 | It was a demoniac sound that made hearts beat too fast , heads and bodies reel . |
| 20 | Rain that made Scotland seem like the Sahara was no sweat , but the midget trees ! |
| 21 | Fen smiled — a fleeting , secretive smile that made Robbie think he must be reminiscing about incidents on that walk — probably the overnight bits . |
| 22 | In his white face , there was nothing but a stillness deeper than the farthest depths of the sea — a quietness that made Ruth think of a drowned body drifting on its slow journey down to the sea bed . |
| 23 | He took them all off and that made Constanza laugh at once , but she did n't have much time for him , she was in love with someone else and he had enlisted . |
| 24 | ‘ I wish I knew , ’ Peter answered with a lack of tact that made Sarella cringe . |
| 25 | It was an awful noise that made Whizzo shift his feet anxiously . |
| 26 | There was a certain tone to it that made Nathan advance more cautiously . |
| 27 | ‘ How are you , old Pat ? ’ he asked , with a solicitous concern that made Patrick fume . |
| 28 | Lori sent him one of her most seductive smiles that made Paige long to warn her to be careful . |
| 29 | It was this detail of organisation that made Trent fear for the Belpan Republic . |
| 30 | ‘ You are at the edge of the first forest , ’ Wyn-rajathuk told her ; there was something about the expression on his wounded face , the slight edginess of his good eye , that made Tallis suspect he was holding back . |