Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An officer on foot will often spend a whole shift without doing any police work , and without talking to anyone except to greet them and provide simple information … |
| 2 | Vincent came to see me and stayed all day . |
| 3 | ‘ I carried on dealing in Sevens , servicing them , repairing them and did some racing until the economy picked up again in 1965 . ’ |
| 4 | She had been tempted to banish them and forbid all visits , but they would n't be intimidated . |
| 5 | And a killjoy is one that do n't enjoy himself and let other people |
| 6 | In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society . |
| 7 | So you 've , is there then a choice between going for socialism now , going straight into collectivization or delaying it and keeping that end product in sight ? |
| 8 | It had been sent to an isolated kibbutz with food but the Arabs stopped it and killed forty-seven Jews . |
| 9 | The item must be of sufficient quality to be displayed in a public collection whether national , local authority or university , and the owner has to agree to keep the object in the UK , preserve it and allow reasonable public access to it . |
| 10 | When you 're preparing for the interview make sure that you test yourself and have good answers to basic questions like : |
| 11 | His dog-leg patrimony ( his uncle was Lord Chelmsford ) has enabled him to support himself and to help some others . |
| 12 | It 's just a cynical publicity campaign to promote himself and sell more copies of the video . |
| 13 | ‘ She recognised me and had some idea I wanted to do a story about her on York station . |
| 14 | Sheffield Wednesday head a list of four clubs who can overtake them and snatch second place . |
| 15 | well look at some of the apples you were getting round about Christmas , they had brought them in , they had polished them and put that spray on to make them look shiny |
| 16 | I suppose we could have pushed ourselves and got these things , but I think we both knew that erm if we did , we 'd probably have to sell them halfway through paying for them . |
| 17 | You are what your life has made you and to regret past experience would be to regret one 's whole life . |
| 18 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |
| 19 | It was because not for anything in the world would she have disturbed him and missed this spectacle . |
| 20 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 21 | But if a solicitor had made it and put three halves we could take an action against that solicitor or the executor could to erm for the costs of going to court to find out what on earth the will meant . |
| 22 | Captive and wild elephants have been observed holding sticks in their trunks to scratch themselves and using leafy branches as gigantic fly swats . |
| 23 | They were young and pretty and sexy — just like proper pop stars — and they shagged lots and did dangerous drugs — just like proper rock stars . |
| 24 | We are in danger of forgetting that it is God we are talking about : the God who created us , the God who sustains us and has sovereign rights over us . |
| 25 | You 're paying somebody to like you and to encourage other people to like you , which is a bit of a bizarre concept . |
| 26 | Hopefully they trust you and get individual attention from you , even though you also deal with other residents as well . |
| 27 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 28 | It seems to me , if a literary critic may be allowed a comment on these linguistic matters , that the function of the first- and second-person pronouns is rather to relate two people , to set up a plane of relationship which includes them and excludes all others . |
| 29 | For example , he needs to be able to identify himself and give personal facts about himself . |
| 30 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |