Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is always to guide students to understanding and thereby to help them minimize , if not avoid , errors . |
| 2 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 3 | Bathsheba could say no more , and weakly let him put it on her finger . |
| 4 | Generally they evolve as comfortable structures in the establishment being more effective in maintaining the ‘ status quo ’ than in encouraging change , and rarely do they encourage innovation . |
| 5 | The Profitboss takes pride in his company 's products and so does his team . |
| 6 | The Profitboss supports this marketing effort and so does his team . |
| 7 | The horse must be taught to lower his head which in turn will loosen his back and so help him understand how to engage his hocks . |
| 8 | I would encourage every credit card holder amongst our members to apply for and sensibly use one of these cards instead of their current VISA or other credit cards and so help us put something back into nature . " |
| 9 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 10 | The lack of a determiner before these nouns makes them generic , and so makes us feel that the human forces that impinge on Titus 's life are vague and insubstantial . |
| 11 | So psychology often binds us to our weaknesses and failure by showing us how to ‘ pass the buck ’ and so makes us believe that we should feel good when we have done so . |
| 12 | The touch of luxury put him off , and so did his work , which he found charming enough but ‘ a little more passion , please ’ . |
| 13 | His passion for books still raged , and so did his desire to study , to instruct himself . |
| 14 | Apathy occurs as a result of our suppressing negative emotions and feelings , not being able or prepared to deal with them and so letting them accumulate in our unconscious mind . |
| 15 | Anything which makes rigging and de-rigging more difficult increases the risk of someone getting tired of holding up a wing-tip and so letting it droop or even drop . |
| 16 | Without warning she reached her hand sideways and took mine and pressed it , as if to give me courage ; and perhaps to make me identify her with the original , gentle Lily . |
| 17 | At the moment I 'm training a red-tailed buzzard and only letting it move a few inches — just off my fist and back again . |
| 18 | ‘ Well ? ’ snapped Duvall , a little too loudly ; and enough to make him look nervously back in the direction of the office door . |
| 19 | A scroll bar with up and down arrows above and below lets you move through the contents . |
| 20 | You know all the guests and something about them ; you can greet , welcome , introduce and generally make them feel at home . |
| 21 | However , the text editor was more accommodating , and had all the utility of the address book except its auto-dialler , which only works with tone-phones ( you hold the machine 's tiny speaker against the phone ) and anyway makes you look like an idiot . |
| 22 | Perhaps the police would n't even let them do that , perhaps they would treat them like gypsies and move them on and on and not let them stop anywhere . |
| 23 | Who just want to take over your mind and not let you think for yourself . |
| 24 | ‘ The idea is to save as much as you can and not let it go to the government . |
| 25 | Was it possible the old fox had sussed him out and not let it show ? |
| 26 | But you have to hold it down like that , and not let it burst free and flop trembling onto the table . ’ |
| 27 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 28 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 29 | She finally turned to face him , determined to smile and not let him know what she 'd heard . |
| 30 | I 've even been past Grey House twice to see if by any chance your car was there , to see if you 'd come back and not let me know . |