Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 19 | Britain offered mediation , based on respect for Spanish sovereignty , in return for open markets and concessions to the rebels : since she would neither intervene against the rebels herself nor let others intervene should concession fail , her talk of Spanish sovereignty seemed hypocritical . |
| 20 | Nor do words like slag , nympho , ballbreaker and pricktease . |
| 21 | The auditors owe a duty of care to the shore share holders collectively , not to individual share holders or what are called stake holders , employees for example , er nor do auditors have a general duty so far as the public interest is concerned . |
| 22 | Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straightforward sense . |
| 23 | Nor did Peter regain effective control of his kingdom as Henry , although defeated at Nájera , staged a political comeback . |
| 24 | West Europeans had no wish to end their growing economic ties with the Eastern bloc , nor did Schmidt wish to damage the relationship built by Brandt and himself with East Germany . |
| 25 | Nor did Alexander accept Lanskoi 's opinion that members of the new committee ought to be " convinced of the need to move towards a new order " . |
| 26 | Nor did Belli hesitate to give his chitarrone-player jagged leaps and , as he confessed , ‘ lots of quavers ’ ( molto serrati di crome ) . |
| 27 | Nor did Russia possess the industrial might of Germany . |
| 28 | Nor did Moscow raise the principles of non-alignment when it transferred arms on a large scale to radical ‘ non-aligned ’ African states in the 1970s or to Afghanistan in the 1980s . |
| 29 | Nor did Yeremi have much option but to gas Tundrish in turn . |
| 30 | Nor did Puritans belong to any one socio-economic group . |