Example sentences of "[vb infin] [coord] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever you may think or believe about my mother , you must understand that . ’ |
| 2 | Sarella felt her nerves jump and crackle at his approach . |
| 3 | Farmers could buy and sell through their local co-operative but were not obliged to do so . |
| 4 | As for Salt and the rest of them , they 'd goggle and gape and point at their foreheads . |
| 5 | As I worked at my translations I heard him mutter and grunt at his desk . |
| 6 | Any problems you find you should photograph and pass to your solicitor for resolving . |
| 7 | As built , the original Time Rotor could not only rise and fall but rotate on its axis as well . |
| 8 | Neither Sir Arthur or Constance Fairbairn could speak or lipread throughout their lives . |
| 9 | He felt her hand warm and relaxed under his own , and said : ‘ There is a valley with a stream running through . |
| 10 | THE Home Secretary has told colleagues that he expects a fresh Commons debate on the death penalty before the next election and that he would speak and vote for its restoration as a deterrent for some murders . |
| 11 | Political-economic analysis could help professional economists both by providing a critique of their ideology , and also in assessing what is feasible , who will benefit and lose from their policies , what will tend to be done or left undone in the project and so on . |
| 12 | Things like okay , ordering possibly could be reactive and active , because yes , it 's something that has to be done every day , but if your order in spot on , that is an active task , it would improve and benefit to your , you would say that that , . |
| 13 | Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? |
| 14 | Who would be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? ’ |
| 16 | She could laugh and joke with her colleagues but Dexter often wondered how much of the crude banter she found genuinely amusing . |
| 17 | Robbie was ready for a rest and some food , and she groaned inwardly at the thought that Fen would undoubtedly expect her to prepare a meal before she could eat and sink into her bunk . |
| 18 | After a hour of simpering sycophancy from the presenter , the Prince took the viewer into his garden , where he said he loved to sit and think and talk to his plants . |
| 19 | Had they played the ball down th channels or to the corner flags , this would have turned their defence and let us regroup and play in their half . |
| 20 | Sometimes they would come and lunch or dine in my hotel , sitting at a table next to ours . |
| 21 | ‘ For as long as I am the champion I will not recognise or defend or fight for their dishonoured belt . ’ |
| 22 | I wished I could turn to stone , or put down roots like the spotted laurel and forever let the adjusting wind tweak and fiddle with my clothes to no purpose . |
| 23 | Her mind filled with pictures of the old grey-stone manor house , surrounded by peaceful green fields , where the children could run and play to their hearts ' content . |
| 24 | That combination indicates perhaps Cohan 's key to the entire venture , for the ‘ technique mix ’ scenario does n't begin and end with his association with the Scottish Ballet . |
| 25 | She did n't have to like it , any more than she had to like being Vanessa Vail , but there was no way she could evade the responsibility without racking up a seed of guilt that would sprout and eat at her Dreams . |
| 26 | Although they are characters they can not move or fight on their own , because they are part of their Mob . |
| 27 | His latest series is probably his best yet and will make many people stop and think about their own lives and relationships . |
| 28 | Suddenly , she would stop and look towards our house because she had sensed Sally calling her . |
| 29 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 30 | Felix did not move and true to his word the batsman knocked him down . |