Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 2 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |
| 3 | Erm , because if , if interruptions are coming from the people who work for you , you can , you know , nicely tell them to go away and get on with it , but if they 're coming from the boss , and bosses are sensitive soles , so it 's difficult to actually say to the boss , boss you 're wasting a lot of my time , go away . |
| 4 | At four months they are encouraged to follow their mother on her nightly hunt , though she makes them stay still and hidden during the final stalk to avoid spooking the prey . |
| 5 | He told me to go ahead and finish it . ’ |
| 6 | She told me to go away and stop pestering her . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So they asked me to go away and come back again in a week which gave me breathing space and time at least to learn it properly . |
| 9 | I took this as his Imprimateur , his permission if you like for me to go away and write aqbout what Toad really got up to next rather than being annoyingly good as he is at the end of Wind in the Willows |
| 10 | They told me to go home and talk it over . |
| 11 | ‘ You almost convince me to go home and change ! ’ he teased softly . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're not expecting me to go home and wait till they shoot that boy on Friday ? ’ |
| 13 | So it 's easy for me to sit here and say , we think we 're doing a good job on the environment , because we 're not threatened , we do have to find ways round existing chemicals , we may have to pay , pay a higher price , but we 're not threatened in terms of the the core of our bottom line . |
| 14 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 15 | ‘ Decisions are best when everyone contributes rather than having them imposed from above . |
| 16 | But Pau survived , and in the late 1860s was at its most popular with British and , by this time , some American winterers , with up to I , 500 of them registered yearly as staying or living there . |
| 17 | In Sweden , five ponds were selected , four of them 60–100m apart and connected by a stream , and another 1.9km away . |
| 18 | He informs Fleming that he had had to put them to work elsewhere and hopes that it will not be thought strange that the men are taken away . |
| 19 | Now , they know who they are , and I would like them to come forward and admit their guilt . " |
| 20 | Within our provision for grants for voluntary organizations , we hold an unallocated figure , because we do n't automatically erm , add inflation to grants to voluntary bodies , and in fact we wait for them to come forward and justify the increases of grants we 're giving . |
| 21 | ‘ We would ask them to come forward and help us solve this terrible killing . ’ |
| 22 | McHale revealed : ‘ Basically , it 's down to them to come here and impress . |
| 23 | Parents ' main interest was seen as the opportunity to influence the quality of their children 's education … the view was expressed that the APM should be seen as the climax to a continuous relationship between various parties and an opportunity for them to come together and ask questions about what had happened over the course of the previous 12 months . |
| 24 | Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development . |
| 25 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 26 | And I know it 's very easy for me to stand here and say you know try to keep calm and polite and reasonable . |
| 27 | I asked quickly and walked off with her glass before she could reply . |
| 28 | And although the sex was something I endured rather than enjoyed , it was a learning experience . |
| 29 | So how do you just I mean rather than do it in your head , especially in an exam , just what you 're going to do , put the Add X to both sides say . |
| 30 | I mean rather than do all the photocopying or whatever . |