Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina decided he looked happy enough and left him to enjoy himself . |
| 2 | Shall I come in and help you to make it ? ’ |
| 3 | " I'Il ring down and tell them to get one for you . " |
| 4 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 5 | He put his drink down and turned her to face him , his eyes intent on her face . |
| 6 | ‘ Is that the best explanation you can come up with for the fact that I do n't lie down and beg you to take me ? ’ she shot back , her temper well and truly up now . |
| 7 | He was going to say it … he had to be leading up to ‘ I love you ’ … and she felt she was clinging on by her fingernails to the last trace of hope , her hands clutching the door-jamb behind her to stop herself sliding down and begging him to say it . |
| 8 | Some people do ring the police up and the police , if we 've got the time , we 'll come along and ask them to switch it down . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 're fed up with your partner wearing that shaggy old jumper , why not suggest that you go shopping together and help him to choose something better ? ’ she says . |
| 10 | We said he was stronger than he looked , but the vet turned us away and told us to bring him back when he was bigger . |
| 11 | I have really bad nightmares of someone pursuing me , or a really big landslide coming down on me , and I race out of my bed and run , run far away and find something to defend myself with , like a candelabra or a bottle . |
| 12 | She should be married to Charlie now , and safely pregnant at Lady Mead with Nanny , and if Charlie were to phone her tonight and ask her to marry him tomorrow she would cry , ‘ Darling ! |
| 13 | Habitual behaviour patterns are , therefore , useful because they can be carried out effortlessly and free us to concentrate our energies on other things . |
| 14 | They may refer to it or harbour it secretly and allow it to sour their trust and love . |
| 15 | I blame myself for looking on and allowing you to poison their minds . |
| 16 | An aide had apparently taken him aside and told him to do something fast about his image . |
| 17 | There was a large gap beneath Mildred 's door , and she decided to set off and find someone to help her . |
| 18 | The vet also explained Luke had to get some weight off and instructed me to change his diet of cooked chicken and switch to a dried food called Eukanuba . |
| 19 | You do n't attempt to tackle the employee directly and challenge him to explain his actions . |
| 20 | Take a spoon up and get her to take her medicine . |
| 21 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 22 | Rough roads , however , of the sort council repair crews seem so keen to create , ruffle it slightly and cause it to slap its tyres on the road in protest . |
| 23 | Mr Jordan 's advice to any woman who thinks her doctor has behaved unprofessionally or asked her to do something humiliating is to refuse straightaway and report the incident . |
| 24 | The owner kept the canvases they had left behind and used them to cover his chicken coops and rabbit hutches . |
| 25 | The only supervision required is the kind that will keep the addict from going out and buying something to satisfy his craving . |
| 26 | It snuggles up to something familiar then pulls the rug out and dares you to keep your balance . |
| 27 | By the time Kathleen had sorted the patient out and found someone to give his wife a cup of tea and explain what was happening , Jack was back in Theatre , clad from head to toe in green theatre pyjamas , with a J-cloth hat and a mask . |
| 28 | The worse her boyfriend 's employment prospects , the less she loses if he moves out and leaves her to raise his child alone . |
| 29 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
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