Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would fall and make him drag her the rest of the way first . |
| 2 | Eventually she let him win and asked who told him . |
| 3 | And er they used to come to me and ask things about what they should do and did I think they had a claim for this and that you know , and I used to tell them you see . |
| 4 | Although how we were supposed to be able to afford to rebuild , I had no idea , but whenever I queried anything he would just laugh and tell me to leave it all to him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He is not in the least like any of Henrietta 's children , but when I see him laugh and run he makes me think of them , being nearer the little one 's age than my Penini . |
| 6 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps even that is preferable to thinking she could just disappear and let us think she was dead . ’ |
| 8 | Of course , the letters ( which have been created for the British Institute of Management ) have been generalized , but you can tweak and customize them to suit your needs . |
| 9 | I do n't daydream about things in my future very much because I must admit I have n't got much to daydream for — because I 'm very lucky , I 've got a lovely house , a lovely husband ; we go on lovely holidays , we lead a nice social life , I 've got lovely clothes — I ca n't really daydream and say I wish I was this , I wish I was that . |
| 10 | ‘ He got a bit upset when the bowels did n't work and let me know it , ’ he recalls . |
| 11 | Stuart will ring and let you know he said , this morning . |
| 12 | Well if you want to just ring and ask someone to bring them . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's try and forget I said it . |
| 14 | If you ended up with several lists of different sounds you would also try and decide what sounds they are phonetically and what symbols to use . |
| 15 | But , I take it a little step further because if I do go somewhere like a bus and people are smoking then I 'll actually approach and ask them to put it out . |
| 16 | Diana wondered whether to sit there or leave and let them make their farewells in private . |
| 17 | ‘ I shall go and make them cook me some breakfast . ’ |
| 18 | He let her go and beckoned her to follow him . |
| 19 | Then they would n't find me , and I could plan my life and find a job and a flat and go home in six months ' time having proved I 'm adult and they 'll have to let go and let me do what I absolutely , passionately want to do with my life . |
| 20 | When were here , so , yeah , oh I shall go and see what bargains I can get here , eh . |
| 21 | If you do n't , I will come and get you I will come and get you like you got me . |
| 22 | He hoped , I suppose , that she would come and ask him to forgive her . |
| 23 | ‘ Sometimes at the weekend Mr Rosenbloom would come and ask me to iron his shirts . |
| 24 | Looking back I can see that the fall of the tree and the resulting fear were symbolising my anxiety lest the squire should come and catch us raiding his walnut tree . |
| 25 | ‘ Could you come and help me get it out ? ’ |
| 26 | But Branson always regarded licensing deals as unsatisfactory ; in the first place , the licensee could pick and choose which records it wanted to release , and did not always have the ‘ emotional commitment ’ to making them hits . |
| 27 | Charity with enough resilience to laugh , thought it unlikely that Charles would make a particularly docile prisoner and Clarissa said she 'd write and tell him to behave himself . |
| 28 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 29 | " I realise how alien Topaz 's behaviour must seem to you , but God has sent her to us to teach and train and to make her accept Him as we do . |