Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course . |
| 2 | So if do you have that information on your computer , I was think that if you did that consistently over a year . |
| 3 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 4 | As it went down it tripped two levers or weighbridges which by means of linkwork connections released a gate at the top of the wheel so as to let it move on by just one scoop . |
| 5 | New books and dictionaries are expected to contain the new spellings , while Proust , Racine and the rest will gradually be re-edited so as to make them conform . |
| 6 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 7 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |
| 8 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 9 | The other is an insider 's , told so as to make us understand what the events mean , in a sense distinct from any meaning found in unearthing the laws of nature . |
| 10 | Write so that he can not twist your meaning so as to make you agree to opinions the opposite of those you hold . |
| 11 | I think this happened in when did it happen this in between and Jericho , somewhere around that region , where was it |
| 12 | In practice , as we have seen , it is British policy to subsidise the polluting farmers rather than make them pay to clean up the pollution . ) |
| 13 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 14 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 15 | She heard rather than saw him dive into the water and a moment later he surfaced beside her . |
| 16 | She felt rather than heard him say her name . |
| 17 | ‘ At least then the drummer feels he 's done something ; it 's using technology to help him , rather than making him feel he 's being replaced . ’ |
| 18 | Joan Bower of the voluntary organisation Age Concern told me how her local branch takes services to its clients , rather than making them travel . |
| 19 | The veto , yes we touched upon that , that 's that 's stopping the congress from doing something rather than making them do something . |
| 20 | 2 ) The need for someone to work within our community as a challenge to attitudes and reflecting perceptions of those overseas rather than making us feel comfortable . |
| 21 | The West has opted for letting it happen rather than making it happen |
| 22 | As Adam Smith remarks in 1759 : ‘ When a person comes into his chamber , and finds the chairs all standing in the middle of the room , he is angry with his servant , and rather than see them continue in that disorder , perhaps takes the trouble himself to set them all in their places with their backs to the wall . |
| 23 | But he was well liked , and his colleagues , rather than see him lose his job , would roll the old man into a hollow , covering him with heather to keep out the damp , and leave him sleeping soundly until the end of the day . |
| 24 | I will grant the most hardened criminal a reprieve rather than see him hang . |
| 25 | I have worked for you in all ways practically from the moment you were born and I 'd die rather than see you throw yourself away on the likes of her ; for she is scum , and I repeat it , scum . |
| 26 | Basically , it provided that they would be investing in her rather than letting her buy this or that security for them . |
| 27 | rather than letting it get dried out and cracked . |
| 28 | They were prepared to kill the journalist Broom-Parker rather than let him talk to me . |
| 29 | Rather than let me do it . ’ |
| 30 | And I knew , out there , that he would have killed me rather than let me get away . |