Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 2 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 3 | How d' ya get on at the dentist ? |
| 4 | ‘ D' you go out in the evening ? ’ asked Patrice McKechnie . |
| 5 | Let them sweat gently in the butter for 5–6 minutes . |
| 6 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 7 | Let them sleep here beside the cabin . ’ |
| 8 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 9 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 10 | He squatted and started to pick them up , then let them drop back to the floor and just crouched there and put his hands over his face and started to cry . |
| 11 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 12 | ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 13 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
| 14 | She did not take those hours out and contemplate them ; she simply let them lie somewhere in the head , to surface no doubt at some point of low resistance . |
| 15 | The potential ramifications of such a theme could be vast so let me start somewhere in the middle . |
| 16 | Let me blow out of the water some of the common misconceptions about negotiations . |
| 17 | Let me press on to the important subject of the council water charge which is set out in schedule 11 . |
| 18 | Let me quote again from the report so that people realise that I am not making this up . |
| 19 | Her eyes closed , she turned her face away , released her hold on my cheekbones and let me go on into the hall . |
| 20 | Right erm let me go right to the back , the Security Council man , what have you written down ? |
| 21 | The members are accountable and let me go back about the committees . |
| 22 | Let me turn quickly to the out turn figures that were in P and R. The capital programme is already on line , although it was grossly underfunded . |
| 23 | ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury . |
| 24 | Let me come straight to the point . |
| 25 | But just let me come back to the the point I want to make , it is it evident to us from what was said yesterday collectively by the District Councils , that they could live with the figure of forty one thousand two hundred , as proposed by the County Council , without a new settlement . |
| 26 | Here 's your mother , now let me get on with the work . ’ |
| 27 | Preferably Chertro with his stupid grin and all the crooked FedPols who let someone walk away with the Ardakke prisoner . |
| 28 | Suddenly the flood-gates opened and Topaz let everything spill out from the day when she took Andrew 's horse to the moment when Amsterdam asked her to marry him . |
| 29 | After a hair-raising careen out of the park , through the backstreets of Muswell Hill , Bounds Green , and on to the North Circular Road ( only in the broadest interpretation of the term could the Apostate be described as knowing how to drive ) , Rainbow persuadesd Anya to untie her hands and feet , and let her get back behind the wheel . |
| 30 | Let him go back to the corner thinking , ‘ I 'm working with the boss . ’ ’ |