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 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a COSE desktop toolkit . |
| 23 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a Common Open Software Environment desktop toolkit . |
| 24 | Anyway er I went out and I shut the gates and just let them know that you know , they 'd sort of I wa I was checking |
| 25 | I 'd taught many similarly wealthy girls during my lecturer days , so fortunately I did n't feel uneasy about this and just let her carry on . |
| 26 | Open her mouth and just let her suck it . |
| 27 | Dare they call her bluff and just let her get on with whatever she thought she could do to inconvenience them ? |
| 28 | And just let me put the postcode in , what is it ? |
| 29 | We 're sticking to our original plan , and they 'll have to accept it , although I sometimes think that , if we knew we were about to die , I 'd rather post Oliver through the nearest letter-box and just let him take pot luck . |
| 30 | I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever . |