Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 2 | The door stayed jammed shut , and he did n't shout back or answer her in any way . |
| 3 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 4 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 5 | He must know how to lift or catch her in different ways from a static position or jump without any sign of strain . |
| 6 | It would be impractical to attempt to review or catalogue them in this study and , although we will mention some specific products , we will confine this section mainly to illustrating general authoring issues . |
| 7 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 8 | ‘ I never intended to belittle or humiliate her in public . |
| 9 | She wept easily and often anyway : frequently dissolving in front of Alice , who would then coax or bully her into all sorts of concessions . |
| 10 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 11 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 12 | They move around the tank , scattering the smaller fish in all directions , although they do n't attack or harm them in any way . |
| 13 | In an age when insurance against all forms of liability is commonplace , it is surely not surprising or unjust if law makes persons who carry on some kinds of hazardous undertakings liable for the harm they do , unless they can excuse or justify it on some recognisable ground . ’ |
| 14 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 15 | If you do n't have a ‘ fridge , put the food in the coldest place you can find and eat it within one or two days . |
| 16 | Venice and Ancona , Naples and Sicily , Florence and Bruges would watch and listen and notify him in due course of their passage , as well as of other things . |
| 17 | Then , when we are ready , we can reconstitute and display it as new information which human beings can once again understand . |
| 18 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 19 | The most serious danger , however , is that the ‘ people bit ’ gets lost — plans often assume that people will work and prosecute them in logical , rational ways , which of course they do not . |
| 20 | I must go and break it to dear Dimity , and then we must clear up things here , and set off for Thrush Green without delay . ’ |
| 21 | Was she actually planning to aid and abet him in this unexpected , meaningless sexual dalliance ? |
| 22 | And what they do , I 'm going to try and show you on this doll in a minute , the hips are abducted which means they 're brought right up against the chest and then they 're pulled round and they 're rotated in the socket and you feel and listen for a click |
| 23 | Kit thought that she would go and see her in that convent . |
| 24 | I mean you 'll have to come and see me about that because it 's fairly confidential so but they are very very good . |
| 25 | The minute they say well , no that 's no good to me , you 'll have to come and , you 'll have to come and see me at eight , say , well I 'm busy then I 'm afraid . |
| 26 | Her and Kate will come and see me at four o'clock and her and Kate will come and visit you . |
| 27 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | I mean do n't be frightened to come back and see us about that |
| 29 | " I 've been meaning to pop in and see you for some time , " Mrs. Hargreaves went on . |
| 30 | Well he sai he did say he was gon na come and see you about this money . |