Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 2 | He wanted me to drive on and I was in no position to argue . |
| 3 | His only answer was a wave of the arm , signalling me to drive on . |
| 4 | How long would it take me to drive up there ? ’ |
| 5 | But sometimes the Earl would ring me at home at night and ask me to drive back to Althorp because the Countess was in floods of tears . |
| 6 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 7 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 8 | Agreeing with something someone else has said is a powerful way to encourage them to go on and say more . |
| 9 | They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment . |
| 10 | them to Go on |
| 11 | It may be hard for them to go on giving warmth and understanding love amidst the euphoria and excitement that can surround the search for the birth parents and their possible discovery . |
| 12 | At first , the payment entitled them to go on receiving food-subsidy coupons from the team , even though they were no longer working for it . |
| 13 | I want them to go on because they can see it 's the only thing to do . |
| 14 | ‘ After all , you ca n't expect them to go on saying yes for ever . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 16 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 17 | She wanted them to go on being friends — if this cold formality was friendship — because anything was better than never seeing him again . |
| 18 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 19 | Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things . |
| 20 | Cos I need one of them to go up . |
| 21 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 22 | I have seen letters in the Financial Times complaining about the dearth of bailiffs : in the repossessionary times there are not enough of them to go round . |
| 23 | You did say was I going to the Swimming Gala on Monday and if I wanted to go along with them to go round before , at least the granny said to go round , but I said I was n't sure what I was doing . ’ |
| 24 | These girls were the ones who were always getting put in detention , never did any homework , smoked dope at 11 and started having sex at 14 — shoplifting was just another phase for them to go through . ’ |
| 25 | This sets out the draft proposals and erm will after this meeting go to all members of the Council for them to go through with a toothcomb as well as you . |
| 26 | They just tell them to go out an' get more money , do n't they ? |
| 27 | The Unions tell them to go out an' get more money an' ITV an' the papers tell them what to spend it on so the disease is always covered up . |
| 28 | If you want to motivate them to go out and sell that product , you 've got to make them feel it is important to them . |
| 29 | In many areas it is simply impossible for them to go out and win a big share in an intensely competitive market without the Government 's explicit support and cooperation . |
| 30 | There was no alternative for the guilds than for them to go out to trade for assistance , passing on their additional expenditure to the client . |