Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods . |
| 2 | The result is that Central Europe mist make do with financial subsidies instead , as if it were an undeveloped region of the world . |
| 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 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 5 | Just that the latter will have to lower their expectations and make do with imperfect versions of the former . |
| 6 | My way would be to lay planks and make do with these until I had confirmed that it was in fact a good swim . |
| 7 | In the spa town of Svetlogorsk old German villas are kept for members of the Baltic Fleet ; civilians make do with bleak concrete blocks . |
| 8 | make do with this I thought , and then he 's and I did did n't I ? he 'd gone along and |
| 9 | PLEASE let know about any unsold tickets by Friday 8th November . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | After a bit we let go of each other . |
| 12 | Let go of that one please . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Disgust vibrated in her voice as she suddenly let go of some clearly banked-up and held-back emotion . |
| 16 | You 're preaching individuality , intactness , but people let go of these things when they love . |
| 17 | But when I let go of these weapons , how can I fight for my people ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | OVER a weekend in which John Major said ‘ society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less ’ , and Kenneth Clarke let fly against social workers ‘ mouthing political rhetoric about why children in their care are so delinquent ’ , the message which will stick in my mind was from Anfield , saying simply ‘ Rest in Peace James ’ . |
| 21 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 22 | Just pause there what do think about that girl being tipped out of the bed ? |
| 23 | You , you actually , the estimators do think about these things , believe it or not . |
| 24 | ‘ You do think of all the might have beens , ’ Sandra admits . |
| 25 | So do think of that . |
| 26 | If we do think in this unilinear way , we will be inclined to dismiss or devalue evidence that is important for our understanding of language history , just as some of our predecessors have done . |
| 27 | erm and how we do compare to other companies erm |
| 28 | Sex equality policies are not widespread , yet they do relate to mainstream education practice and funding : for example policies concerned to alter ordinary timetabling processes , counselling systems and resource allocation . |
| 29 | However , the upshot of his research is that differences in motor skills do exist between black and white kids . |
| 30 | The particular clays he has in mind do exist in many different crystalline forms . |