Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if a subliminal message had passed between them ; as if she had said aloud , ‘ Look , I understand how things are between you and Alain Gebrec , but Iris does n't seem to and I do n't want her upset , ’ and as if he had responded , ‘ Do not worry , I will not say or do anything to hurt her . ’ |
| 2 | When you say Supported , do you mean they did n't object or do you mean they |
| 3 | If there is something you can not do , you can ask a friend to help or pay someone to do it for you . |
| 4 | Rather than decorate I think we 'll just |
| 5 | She had thought long and hard before deciding that it was best for him to hear it from her rather than risk it reaching him through the more sensational tabloids , but she had braced herself for an outburst of shock , anger , even disgust . |
| 6 | Rather than let me do it . ’ |
| 7 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 8 | I mean one person in particular , who is very good and always does the work , but I feel is probably — ok , she babies people too much , she does everything for them , rather than allow them to do it themselves . |
| 9 | All that rather than allow him to marry me ? |
| 10 | She would fall and make him drag her the rest of the way first . |
| 11 | You want to scream out and make them stop it , and you want to cringe up your body and hide it somewhere , and there 's nowhere to hide , and the shells keep screaming down and blowing everything up all around you . |
| 12 | ‘ I shall go and make them cook me some breakfast . ’ |
| 13 | That was why I kept pushing you and provoking you — to try and make you spit it out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You just have to try and do what got you good results in the first place . |
| 16 | To try and do what makes me happy , dress in a way that makes me happy . |
| 17 | shut up , because Alan said he said oh it could have been worse girl , it could have been his bleeding handle that 'll come off and do you know I 've got two left out of six , every handle 's come off , cracked |
| 18 | ‘ Is that the best explanation you can come up with for the fact that I do n't lie down and beg you to take me ? ’ she shot back , her temper well and truly up now . |
| 19 | Well I do n't yet she 's gon na come round and see me to tell me what sort of job . |
| 20 | When were here , so , yeah , oh I shall go and see what bargains I can get here , eh . |
| 21 | To go and see What have you bought ? |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But then that question was asked last night erm from one chap about sport versus the arts and I suppose to me it is a quality of life issue erm where do you start an and stop I mean you have a problem when you have a recession do n't you , where you say okay we i we are in a recession we have got limited resources we have to make decisions . |
| 26 | Quite suddenly , love for her , for gentle , golden Anne , flooded me , and I jumped out of bed , pushing back the net , wanting to run to her and tell her everything , wanting to confess and have her forgive me and kiss me with those soft , childish , soothing kisses . |
| 27 | I do n't want to go in and have anyone see me . |
| 28 | I think we 're dealing here with people who are seen by the majority to be liabilities , and the majority do n't want to touch and have anything to do we 're dealing with modern day lepers . |
| 29 | ‘ Let's try and forget I said it . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |