Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women would look up and congratulate me and encourage me to ‘ go on , go on , you can , you can ’ . |
| 2 | Moving on to Zimbabwe 's admission to Test ranks , one can only congratulate them and wish them well , while inevitably questioning their prospects in that kind of company . |
| 3 | When thou wast young , thou girdedst thyself and walkedst whither thou wouldst ; but when thou shalt be old , thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not . |
| 4 | Yet there remains an important element of truth in the observation , ‘ another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not ’ . |
| 5 | Yes we do make them and sell them . |
| 6 | What d do you make them or sell them or what ? |
| 7 | The client is encouraged , and initially assisted , in developing and carrying out strategies for testing thoughts and beliefs about what might happen , e.g. ‘ If I ask my boss for a raise he 'll sack me or bite my head off . ’ , |
| 8 | Sports heroes and pop stars provide images for teenagers , who may imitate them and style themselves upon them . |
| 9 | He wanted to take me where the cold would hurt me and make me more miserable . |
| 10 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 11 | Not images , but people who can direct them or lead them , channel their energies or expand their scope are what they need . |
| 12 | The making of great telescopes , and of the mountings which would direct them and keep them focused on a star , required great industrial resources and skill . |
| 13 | Jeremiah , the Old Testament prophet , assures us of God 's promise : ‘ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart . ’ |
| 14 | He can catch them and gut them . |
| 15 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ you can peel them and boil them or cut them up and fry them or … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ For God 's sake , lie still , or I might be tempted to forget I do n't respect you and take what we both want ! ’ he ordered tersely . |
| 18 | ‘ I can either trust you and allow you to take charge of the whole business , or I can decide you 're not to be trusted and take charge of things myself . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , come down and I 'll introduce you and put you forward ’ — because he was something well-to-do there . |
| 20 | He admits that they did not trust him and avoided him . |
| 21 | She must judge , too ; he thought she would trust him and let him have his way . |
| 22 | In response to this request he gave them the Lord 's Prayer , in which we pray first of all for God Himself , that all may know him and revere Him , that his mile may be extended over all , and that his will , so right and good and loving , may be done on earth , as it is by angels , prophets and saints in heaven . |
| 23 | Instead of seventy dead , it might have cost him five hundred , a thousand , to destroy Siward 's army so that it could neither attack him nor follow him . |
| 24 | If a harem is travelling alone and encounters an all-male group , the male then faces the risk that adult males from the group will attack him and usurp his reproductive role . |
| 25 | The jockey 's race never stops … never stalls … so far this season Richard Dunwoody has had three hundred and sixty nine rides … he should be celebrating his century of winners any day … only one man can catch him and stop him and that 's Peter Scudamore … at Wincanton this week the reigning champion came galloping back with a winning treble … |
| 26 | With luck , with his whistling that loud Jack would catch him and see him off . |
| 27 | Does she entice him or does he appear by chance ? |
| 28 | So fine is it that even the slightest movement in the air will catch it and lift it . |
| 29 | Humans ca n't catch it and pass it on , especially not through solid glass.in But he refused to give ground on this issue . |
| 30 | However , many things had happened during the two years since she had been told that her mother had died of the fever and that , prior to this , she had not been allowed to see her in case she should catch it and spread it further . |