Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 2 | I did n't fancy his biscuits , so I made do with some toast . |
| 3 | We in Scotland must make do with such styles as we can accumulate in our professional careers and , by and large , the only other source of styles for non-statutory deeds is the Encyclopaedia of Scottish Legal Styles . |
| 4 | So we well this week on Tuesday we 're erm going swim and spa and Rosemary and Anne and all them er Maggie they 're , they are all there so this is what we 're gon na do try for this week and see what it 's like , you know go through all the system there . |
| 5 | After a bit we let go of each other . |
| 6 | Yet we experience a great sense of loss , if we only let go of this intellect reluctantly and in fact would rather nurture it than shed it . |
| 7 | He prodded once more his attaché case — which I felt inclined to keep my eyes averted from — and said : ‘ I suppose you 've been wondering why I never let go of this case . |
| 8 | You 're preaching individuality , intactness , but people let go of these things when they love . |
| 9 | But when I let go of these weapons , how can I fight for my people ? ’ |
| 10 | No one can be healed if at one level ( often on an unconscious level ) they do not wish to be healed , or if they can not trust , or let go of any fears that may be blocking the flow of healing energies . |
| 11 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 12 | Eliot must have heard of his arrest during or just after his visit to Paris at the beginning of that month since , on his return , he immediately sent a cable to Archibald MacLeish , the poet who was then Assistant Secretary of State , saying that he was eager to help Pound in any way he could . |
| 13 | March wind doth blow for some time to come , according to the coastguard , and believe me it blows hellish hard round Gullholm . ’ |
| 14 | There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics . |
| 15 | In other words you must use your powers of thought alone to let go of any tension that you may feel . |
| 16 | They need to struggle with the thorny issue of whose interests come first , and they must be ready to let go of some aspirations and commitments if they are to enjoy what they decide to do . |
| 17 | Help me Lord now to let go of those things where I still nurse anger and resentment , And , loving Father , please bring your gentle healing to my sensitive and painful inner world . |
| 18 | But a primary condition is that we have to let go of those aspects of our past that are no longer helpful or relevant . |
| 19 | Now ask to meet the part of you which refuses to let go of this relationship — and watch as this sub-personality approaches . |
| 20 | Never letting go of that feeling , even when the flash-fire gut-lurch of In Love seemed distant , ludicrous , incredible . |
| 21 | Thus it was that on 3 January she decided to mark the occasion by letting go of another gasket , this time in one of her auxiliary purification circuits . |
| 22 | Macca lets rip with another beast , merv dives to his left and miracuously the score remains 1–1. |
| 23 | Just pause there what do think about that girl being tipped out of the bed ? |
| 24 | You , you actually , the estimators do think about these things , believe it or not . |
| 25 | We did think about this point last night . |
| 26 | Of course , these conditions do exist in some schools and in some classrooms already . |
| 27 | The planets and moons that do remain within this range have to be just the right distance from the right size of star , and should also be spinning , otherwise the side facing the star becomes extremely hot , and the other side extremely cold . |
| 28 | What did remain in that paper , that year , was a hankering after what had survived from 1967 , exemplified in the prose of John Peel . |
| 29 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 30 | We shall see , by the end of this book , that a simple and practical distinction between fabliau and exemplum can be drawn , but that the same stories often do service in both categories . |