Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 2 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 3 | She wondered why Caretaker 's advice appeared to work and longed to ask him . |
| 4 | And buy in food , if he has to , and if anyone has a surplus to sell and wants to sell it to him . |
| 5 | Athenian youths had to be sent every three years to assuage the monster , and when Theseus , prince of Athens , grew old enough , he demanded to go and try to slay it . |
| 6 | No , he would hide there and he used to go and have to control them |
| 7 | We considered what we could do to help and decided to link it with our interest in running . ’ |
| 8 | Labour has carried out a trawl of Departments in order to find something for their Labour colleagues in Newcastle to do and to justify giving them a huge bureaucracy and their own budget . |
| 9 | The child can have his football boots because the words ‘ we ca n't afford it ’ will be linked to the long-gone and not-lamented past : the tyrant can not control against the will of the subject because he can not frighten his people with notions of helplessness and poverty : the employer will have to charm and wheedle his workers if he wants them to work for him : he will have to sing and dance to entertain them : enthuse them with pleasure for their daily toil : they will be paid with the world 's respect , and all around them there will be abundance . |
| 10 | We so enjoyed having friends to stay and got to know them so much better than in London . |
| 11 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 12 | The negotiations are at an early stage , but they seem extremely interested in what we have to offer and have given us plenty of encouragement . ’ |
| 13 | It stuck in my throat and I had to cough and cough to dislodge it . |
| 14 | It 's er you know it 's completely okay to take and stop taking it , and you wo n't want to have to go on . |
| 15 | As Snizort and the Court sat , barely moving , the Trees seemed to become aware of the watchers and , one by one , ceased to move and turned to regard them . |