Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least let me stay here for a while until I get my head clear . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 3 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 4 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 5 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 6 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 7 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 8 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 9 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 10 | ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury . |
| 11 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 12 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 13 | ‘ May I stay here for a pot of tea ? ’ |
| 14 | Should I stay out of the sun ? |
| 15 | All the way to the station she asked it , Shall I jump out of the car at the next light and run ? |
| 16 | shall I finish off after the break ? |
| 17 | What shall I remember longest from the Games ? |
| 18 | Now can I remember about after the timber mill ? |
| 19 | I could n't look at them ; nor could I look back into the room . |
| 20 | ‘ And where do I fit in under the new organisation ? ’ |
| 21 | Where does yours fit in to the various classifications — or do you have a baby who 's a mixture of several ? |
| 22 | Will I step up to the cottage for another bottle , or will you , or shall we go without ? |
| 23 | Why must I struggle constantly against the odds when others find it so easy ? |
| 24 | I 've been so hoping you would soon be ready to join Brownies , but how can I pass over to a Brownie Guider a girl who wo n't lend a hand without being given something first and who does n't know the first thing about being obedient ? ’ |
| 25 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 26 | Can I , yeah , can I go on to the application if I may Chairman ? |
| 27 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 28 | Why did n't I go straight to the Star Council ? ’ |
| 29 | Er at the risk of upsetting everybody again , can I go back to the point which has been made by North Yorkshire on this summary sheet here . |
| 30 | Do I go down through the garden ? |