Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Over the coming years , I want to see us widen and extend our membership and our networking incorporation with other charities even further . |
| 3 | He also had a computer at home with simple tailor-made programmes designed to help him find and match words . |
| 4 | Well alright he 's gon na turn left , er just pause let him clear and then follow the way t follow the way through . |
| 5 | It was the first time she 'd seen him smile and , though it obviously was n't intended to charm , it took her breath away and made her pulses quicken . |
| 6 | I came to help you escape and you have insulted me , me and all true free dragons with your petty invitation . |
| 7 | Would you like to help me try and take some ? |
| 8 | The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again . |
| 9 | But what we 've done now they 've agreed to let me pay and I pay cost price for the drinks . |
| 10 | tell us about breathing , no you 're not getting my voice on that thing he says , I , I do n't like hearing me voice and everything , and he threw it on the settee . |
| 11 | … is that it tends to make us perceive and evaluate formula literature simply as an inferior or perverted form of something better , instead of seeing the ‘ escapist ’ characteristics as aspects of an artistic type with its own purposes and justification . |
| 12 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 13 | So they agreed to let me play and I asked them where they wanted me . |
| 14 | He side-stepped to let her pass and they collided . |
| 15 | Right I shall have let me go and get the matches . |
| 16 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 17 | they must have seen it land or something like that . |
| 18 | The possibility that she might have been raped should have made him pause and perhaps pity , but his savage jealousy allowed no room for it . |
| 19 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 20 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 21 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 22 | But Joe did n't let the remark hang , as if it was something that he 'd felt compelled to let her know but did n't want to discuss any further ; he said , ‘ Are we going to stay here , or move somewhere warmer ? |
| 23 | With reluctance , she decided to let him sleep and moved away . |
| 24 | But he we 'll have to live apart , we 'll have to make us try and make our marriage work by living apart . |
| 25 | Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see . |
| 26 | Never yes so I thought let them come and they wanted you to be there and then I could n't rid of I just could n't get them to change their minds you know they just wanted you there and I said |
| 27 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 28 | S so I mean do you try and u do you use things around the area ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |