Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Occupational Therapist is there to try and help you find a solution to your problem . |
| 2 | When he turned his head he kept his eyes closed , let out his breath , opened his eyes , looked and heard himself give a little whimpering sigh . |
| 3 | I chose a man who massaged my bruised ego , made up for much of the emotional neglect I 'd suffered and made me laugh a lot . |
| 4 | ‘ At one stage when he was at United I was asked to go and help him seek a settlement after a specialist 's report said his knees would n't last another 12 months ! ’ |
| 5 | and then you had to go and let it get a new engine ! |
| 6 | There were many heads like that in Spain , and I would follow outstanding examples gazing in admiration at that nape , that neck , that flat-backed skull , until the head turned and let me glimpse the face , which was never disappointing . |
| 7 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 8 | and Creg 's on Monday with the carpets , oh we shall have a right laugh with them two blokes , aye , they both go oh God not you again you know and do I have a |
| 9 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 11 | Why would anyone come and hear you play the piano ? |
| 12 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |
| 13 | Not in a very big way , but I 've got an eye for that sort of thing and I told him I would n't split on him if he resigned and helped me choose the successor I wanted . |
| 14 | Terrified to telephone and hear him say the words he had written on paper , she collapsed ultimately into a drunken stupor — a woman who had never previously drunk more than a half bottle of wine . |