Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't lets knock it to death do n't lets kick it this place saved my life I almost killed myself trying to fulfil those that we 've been talking about . |
| 2 | By remaining intensely , almost pleasurably absorbed by their intractability , woman-centred psychology often helps sustain them in their present state . |
| 3 | Come on buddy , lets take you up the path ay ? |
| 4 | It is certainly helped by the fact that the spadefoot toad 's eggs are black , covered by a pigment called melanin which helps protect them from the sun 's rays ( the same pigment is responsible for tanning in human beings ) . |
| 5 | Although the last sentence in that passage could be read as covering any demand for payment in purported reliance upon a statute Martin B. does relate it to a ‘ service rendered ’ and the following interjection by him during argument , at p. 629 , suggests that he was thinking of a demand colore officii in the sense referred to by Isaacs and Windeyer JJ. : |
| 6 | But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining . |
| 7 | In terms of the the A nineteen also I think scores reasonably highly on this criterion , the A nineteen south cos again I I would have thought that it does lend itself to assimilation of a new settlement . |
| 8 | ‘ Where a man , having the animus furandi ( see ante , para. 1469 ) , obtains possession of goods by frightening the owner , as by threatening him with temporary imprisonment unless he delivers up his goods , and the owner does deliver them under the influence of the fear inspired by his threat , this is considered such a taking ( although there is a delivery in fact ) as to constitute larceny : Reg. v. Lovell ( 1881 ) 8 Q.B.D. 185 . |
| 9 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 10 | And then , she might well say either she does want something from them or she ai n't ! |
| 11 | It does need plenty of room in which to grow properly . |
| 12 | However , this does need lots of practice to get right . |
| 13 | But she does do them for her family and friends . |
| 14 | So again there are n't many things that do complete , swimming I think I far as I can see is the only one that does , but then again that depends on how you use the swimming , it , it just , just cos you bathes every week does n't necessarily mean that it does do it for you , it depends what you do , okay ? |
| 15 | It does prevent us from assuming that students are being educated because they are at a university , irrespective of what their studies are . |
| 16 | It does prevent us from daring to say that a subject becomes part of education because you teach it in a school , or at a CAT or in a university . |
| 17 | The Profitboss does not run Quality Circles , hut he does surround himself with circles of high-quality people capable of injecting quality into the products and services provided . |
| 18 | The tremendous variety of metal artefacts in use during the Roman Occupation of Britain does present something of a challenge to the detector user in the identification and evaluation of his finds . |
| 19 | A is indeed more precise , but only in a trivial sense , for in B does present us with the same referent as in A. If , on the other hand , the lines changed places , so that we read : |
| 20 | And he does give it to charity . |
| 21 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 22 | And if he does bring it to the attention of the authorities , the problem then arises that in many cases , and I 've seen it in my experience , he will be dissuaded |
| 23 | I 'm a great believer in putting house plants out in the garden for a ‘ summer holiday ’ but this does provide something of an open invitation to the vine weevils to lay their eggs in the pots . |
| 24 | Therefore this simple technique of counting vessels as an assessment of angiogenesis does provide us with additional prognostic information and is good for patients . |
| 25 | The basic premise upon which much of this work is based is most succinctly expressed by William Downes : While Downes 's statement alludes to an unfashionable humanist notion of dramatic character , it does provide us with a valuable starting point for the present discussion . |
| 26 | The pressure for daily or weekly production may often trivialise their comments but it does keep them in touch with what is going on . |
| 27 | But of course that does keep them in a job . |
| 28 | Even pride , the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised , even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation . |
| 29 | That being moved by imagining from a sufferer 's viewpoint does draw me towards his goals is sufficiently shown by my impulse to shrink from imagining as painful in itself , and liable to draw me into action against my own interests . |
| 30 | when he , when they do discover it , when he does discover it for himself , he thinks , hey , I can do this and I invented this myself . |