Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [vb base] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Jezrael 's fingers crisped into the grit beneath her ; even her face worked with the adrenalin that surged up , so much did she want to shove him away and make him save himself . |
2 | " For pity 's sake be still and let him get a word in edgeways . " |
3 | For example , the mother of a five-year-old who always cries when bedtime comes may give in every so often and let him stay up late because she can not bear to see tears . |
4 | ‘ Perhaps we can bring him here and let him rest under the trees . |
5 | So after that I just lay there and let him do what he wanted and he would complain about that too . |
6 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |