Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] [to-vb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that the lump in her throat would break and spill the tears from her eyes and cause her to make choking sounds which she did not try to prevent , knowing they would not penetrate Mrs Aggie 's deep snoring . |
| 2 | The necessary conditions for the formation of sand dunes are a wide foreshore exposed at low tide so that the wind blowing over it can dry the sand and set it in motion ; something to trap the sand and cause it to start accumulating ; and plants to colonise the pile of sand and by binding it together to prevent its complete destruction by the wind or high tides . |
| 3 | Gable refused to work further and Metro 's boy-wonder Irving Thalberg had to fly out to the location at Catalina to calm Gable down and persuade him to continue filming . |
| 4 | I rap the little hypocrite across the knuckles and tell him to keep writing . ] |
| 5 | Men , mention it this weekend to your partners and tell them to start thinking about it . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll have to tell me missis about that trick , and tell her to get going and save some money … |
| 7 | I nearly went insane ; I wanted to come screaming round here night after night , hammer on your door and tell you to stop seeing her … ’ |
| 8 | He would plant her downstage and get her to start playing ’ I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls , ’ and then sabotage her work from the back wall . |
| 9 | And apply it to say driving along at steady speeds , then you can work a lot of it out for yourself . |