Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith has a lot of talent and I think David used to go to him and Keith would rearrange the songs and make them sound good with his bass lines . |
| 2 | They should get off their backsides and let us see what they intend to do about it . |
| 3 | The hot car seats stung the children 's bare legs and made them cry out in protest . |
| 4 | Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed . |
| 5 | Something scratchy nudged against her calves and made her jump . |
| 6 | When he let her go she stared up at him with anguish in her eyes and heard him swear roughly , viciously . |
| 7 | As their two entwined bodies bobbed like corks in the water , Ronni closed her eyes and let herself melt against him . |
| 8 | Now there was no choice but to raise her eyes and let herself see the house . |
| 9 | Held against his heart , feeling the steady beat beneath her cheek , she closed her eyes and let it wash over her in soothing waves . |
| 10 | — When Manjiku comes , she shuts her eyes and lets herself fall down his throat past the barbed teeth and come down to land in the foul bilgewater in his gut . |
| 11 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 12 | When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches . |
| 13 | The smoke was swirling around him , affecting his unprotected eyes and making him choke . |
| 14 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 15 | Her fingers slid inside , rediscovering the hair-roughened wall of his chest , touching the flat male nipples and feeling them harden beneath her tentative exploration . |
| 16 | I set to work with my little bag of magic potions and do you know what I discovered ? ’ |
| 17 | Put such facts as we have before the Sheriff and the Merchant Venturers and let them sort it out . ’ |
| 18 | I took his shoulders and made him look at me . |
| 19 | Something struck her smartly in the middle of her shoulders and made her gasp . |
| 20 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 21 | We shrugged our shoulders and let it go . |
| 22 | Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things . |
| 23 | She came to the last button and , plucking up all her courage , slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor . |
| 24 | When you consider what makes you laugh , try to distinguish between the humour that opens things up , that enables you to confront painful areas and makes you feel stronger , and the humour that operates at the level of the stock response , works on your fear , keeps your defences up and makes you feel weaker . |
| 25 | I wisht I could put you in a cage with about a million mice and let you have fun . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ New entrants put pressure on existing companies and make them change their existing practices , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side . |
| 28 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 29 | She guessed it was pretty obvious that she had nothing to come back with when , his expression grimmer than ever , ‘ We 'll finish this conversation inside , ’ he clipped , and although Fabia would by far have preferred that he simply hand over her car keys and let her go on her way , she realised that there were some responsibilities in life which you just could n't duck . |
| 30 | Sweet and Quine both played guitar for Lloyd Cole back in 1990 — Sweet live , and Quine live and on the record — but while Lloyd Cole kept Quine on a leash , refining his parts and cutting and reconstructing his solos , Sweet just tosses him the keys and lets him rip . |