Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though she was wishing that , after all , she 'd taken a seat , for she suspected he was rather enjoying letting her stew in her own juice . |
| 2 | There is no suggestion that Chief Whip Mr Ryder or his Whips Office colleagues were guilty of this particular brutish behaviour , but many other Euro rebels complained that they were mercilessly browbeaten to make them withdraw their opposition . |
| 3 | I only got to hear him start talking to your Raymond |
| 4 | Nevertheless , I was left to ponder whether to have healing or not to have healing , and so concerned did I become that in the end , a wise man from the Quakers was summoned to give a judgement of Solomon . |
| 5 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |
| 6 | Money and effort that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields has been wasted on power politics and I agree that it 's time surely to put an end to that disgrace now there is a certain logic in Mr amendment , it basically says let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education , let him take executive control and let us take politics out of it and if I thought that that would do what both Mr and myself want to happen I would support . |
| 7 | Mrs Chafer , who has been divorced since the late Seventies , said the prince came to Pammy Jane 's rescue after the divorce and personally offered to let her use one of his tied cottages . |
| 8 | So much time does it take , day after day after day , and nights too , nights in cars , that it becomes your life rather than merely your occupation , especially for those who winter abroad and accordingly know of England little other than cricket . |
| 9 | It disturbed him to think of her father perhaps waking to hear him tiptoe down the passage like a shifty thief afraid of discovery . |
| 10 | She was prickly and sharp with him , and only too obviously relieved to make her escape . |
| 11 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 12 | It only served to make her look more distinguished . |
| 13 | Davidson and the General kept hinting that I would be much better off without it , but I was terrified that without it I should never be able to fly again , so refused to let them touch it . |
| 14 | He does n't really seem to be very careful about distinguishing intellect from the one and , and so forth , does n't really , he 's not , he 's not really focusing on that difference and so seems to let it lapse in a less than useful way . |
| 15 | If a horse stops pulling once he has settled down and works sensibly and correctly after say , 20 minutes of ‘ whoopee ’ then it is a matter of working through the exuberance stage with as many exercises in the form of transitions and ‘ things to do ’ as possible to occupy the horse 's mind and so try to make him concentrate on his work rather than other exciting stimuli . |
| 16 | 2 This only served to make us redouble our efforts and two years later we proved it was possible . |
| 17 | This does not necessarily mean letting everyone do exactly what they want to do … |
| 18 | There was n't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging ; he still had his wallet . |
| 19 | If she had only tried to make him see … |
| 20 | The organisers would like to address the view that the infected are ‘ victims ’ , not just people living with the disease : ‘ A negative input only serves to make them feel they 're under a death sentence . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , he 's celebrity-seeking enough to have made you talk about him . ’ |
| 22 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 23 | KIM WILDE : For allowing herself to be subjected to year after year of pathetic changes of image which only serve to make her look uncomfortable , especially the latest one , with the expensive Marilyn Monroe dress , loads of cleavage and sub-Belinda Carlisle rock balladeering . |
| 24 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 25 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 26 | I did not want to let her go . |
| 27 | The Minister has told us today that he does not want to let us know what his proposals will be when he goes into negotiations . |
| 28 | Mrs. Hamblin had not intended to make it appear that the car belonged to the trader . |
| 29 | They 've got to see you sign the will or at least acknowledge it and in practice see you sign they do n't need to know what 's in the will they just want to see you sign but they 've got to be there it 's no good up the road as one witness did for not for me to her husband who was working in his shop witnessed the signature afterwards . |
| 30 | ‘ You know , Lissa , seeing you tonight has made me realise that I 'd hate to lose contact with you again . |