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 | Let them sweat gently in the butter for 5–6 minutes . |
| 4 | Let them sleep here beside the cabin . ’ |
| 5 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The potential ramifications of such a theme could be vast so let me start somewhere in the middle . |
| 9 | Let me quote again from the report so that people realise that I am not making this up . |
| 10 | Right erm let me go right to the back , the Security Council man , what have you written down ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Let me come straight to the point . |
| 13 | Preferably Chertro with his stupid grin and all the crooked FedPols who let someone walk away with the Ardakke prisoner . |
| 14 | So let us move confidently into the first-person . |
| 15 | Let us move away from the special case of solipsism and sensation terms , and consider a case which may seem simpler ( actually it is the hardest case in which to make the point plausible ) . |
| 16 | Let us move now from the level of cultural theory to cultural ‘ practice ’ . |
| 17 | Let us go upstairs to the bathroom , stand on the stool , look out of the top of the window , craning our necks to the left . |
| 18 | ‘ Let us sit here in the sunshine and contemplate the building , ’ he suggested softly . |
| 19 | Let us return briefly to the standard referential studies reviewed earlier . |
| 20 | Let us return now to the policy question : how well do death rates predict sickness , the condition that requires the cash ? |
| 21 | let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation . |
| 22 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 23 | Let us turn again to the HMI 's comments on Denmark . |
| 24 | Now let us turn briefly to the implications of work done by Birch ( 1979 ) in the USA and the Science Policy Research Unit in Britain on changes in the size of firms . |
| 25 | Let us turn now to the relationship between the chronic sickness and mortality rates . |
| 26 | But let us look again at the quirky , fortuitous way in which evolution favours particular phenotypes . |
| 27 | Let us look again at the sentence that was cited earlier : |
| 28 | Let us look further at the role of tone-unit boundaries , and the link between the tone-unit and units of grammar . |
| 29 | Let us look now at the number of designers due for retirement between 1982–1992 ( see figure 9 ) . |
| 30 | Let us look then at the propositions which earned these encomia . |