Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room . |
| 2 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 3 | You know when they said they were going scuba diving at eight o'clock and did we want to go ? |
| 4 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 5 | The invisible forces brought us together and made us waltz to an unheard tune . |
| 6 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 7 | Quite a number of speakers stressed the importance of events like this to bring people together and to help us recognise our collective strengths . |
| 8 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 9 | A dreamy , psychedelic feel permeates throughout , which pulls this off-the-wall concept together and makes it stand out as one of the most sensuous British house tracks around at the moment . |
| 10 | I bite them together and feel them squash . |
| 11 | The harshness of the alcohol took his breath away and made him choke again , and Paul collapsed in a fit of laughter as he expelled half of it in a further bout of coughing . |
| 12 | She pulled it abruptly away and felt herself blush . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Aline , be a dear sweet girl and go away and let me die in peace . |
| 16 | In those moments , those final moments as he took her and reached ecstasy , she had been able to believe he loved her , felt something for her ; and , though she knew he did not , she was moved , wanted to retain those precious moments which he had just given her when he had finally stripped the mask away and let her see how human he was as he merged with her and lost himself inside her . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ he kissed her goodbye , ‘ I will take my beautiful legs and my useless member away and let you sleep . ’ |
| 18 | This time in the hotels I particularly noticed how many people of different tongues were also staying there — all babbling away and making me wonder who they were and where they had come from . |
| 19 | Will you go away and let me have a serious discussion with my nephew without these constant interruptions ? |
| 20 | She wanted the world to go away and let her live with her lover in a secret palace , give herself over to his embrace , to be beyond responsibility and care and hard work and sanity . |
| 21 | ‘ Give her the päté anyway and let her get on with it . |
| 22 | Sometimes Anne was annoyed by this unnecessary furtiveness and sometimes wondered why John had not explained the situation to her sooner and let her decide whether she wished to be involved with him , but she pushed these doubts aside . |
| 23 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |
| 24 | Right right right right and does he live locally ? |
| 25 | ‘ I said , was you all right and do you know who lives here ? ’ |
| 26 | Did I think the big flanker was offside and did I think I was half-held . |
| 27 | Their progress was fast , the ground had hardened after the rains while Sir James had unfurled the royal standard of Scotland to make it obvious to any others using the road to stand aside quickly and let them pass . |
| 28 | I would say something along the lines of you 've had several , talking about several ways of energy production , but once you start talking about energy transfer and storage one seems to get to electricity fairly quickly and do you want to say anything about that ? |
| 29 | " For pity 's sake be still and let him get a word in edgeways . " |
| 30 | ‘ It 's the hymns that are the great stumbling block , ’ Everard went on , ‘ but really the only thing is to abandon oneself to the words uncritically and let them flow over one . ’ |