Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may gam status at work from your ability to make everyone laugh and to defuse tense atmospheres , from your informal counselling skills or your ability to see the down-side and to be eminently practical when others are dreaming . |
| 2 | Local artist Hazel Albarn has been working with ten and 11-year-olds and their teachers , helping them design and create large sculptures relating to their other work topics . |
| 3 | The record came to an end and everyone clapped and gave high-spirited whoops and whistles . |
| 4 | Let me explain and illustrate this point . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you actually inviting them to try and mount this operation , sir ? ’ |
| 6 | The continuing debate about choosing and using ultraviolet ( UV ) pond systems has prompted me to write and highlight some points which I hope will help your readers make a more informed decision when purchasing a system . |
| 7 | and they come to MPs like me to try and find some way of helping themselves out of the dilemma . |
| 8 | I lived and breathed that show . ’ |
| 9 | I 've got a job that I love doing , and er , I also take the view that if I came and did this programme and moaned away at everybody , and er , moaned away about everything , nobody would ring me up , and nobody would listen . |
| 10 | I says I do n't , I says when am I gon na be able to go to town I says and afford fifteen quid for another bloody rail ? |
| 11 | When I arrived and asked many people for advice , I was directed to the theatre district , Piccadilly Circus , all the obvious places , as well as some less obvious , whose names I do not know . |
| 12 | When I arrived and asked many people for advice , I was directed to the theatre district , Piccadilly Circus , all the obvious places , as well as some less obvious , whose names I do not know . |
| 13 | Like everyone else , I deplore and condemn this killing , as all right-thinking people must . |
| 14 | When I was a bairn I loathed and feared these dogs , and as my parents often liked to get rid of me I used to stay for short holidays with both uncles , and so I saw more of the dogs than I liked . |
| 15 | In this book , I describe and explain these activities and although I can not claim that this is a comprehensive guide to parties — such a task would be virtually impossible ! — I do know that , if you follow my advice , your children and their friends will have a really enjoyable time ! |
| 16 | If I ring and invent some excuse she knows me too well not to see through it . |
| 17 | Should 've stayed on I suppose and got some qualifications . |
| 18 | ‘ I was disappointed with how I handled and managed certain situations , but I know I 've learned from that and I 'm better for it . ’ |
| 19 | I packed and repacked many times ( before I left and after I got there ) . |
| 20 | I talked and talked that night , I remember , about all sorts of things . |
| 21 | Homemade pasta requires a very definite skill which I have n't got ( the texture of the dough is of paramount importance ) , so I cheat and use fresh pasta for special occasions . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I 'll leave you to rest and incubate some more venom while I go and make some phone calls — ’ |
| 23 | If I go and tell that mod over there that he 's insulted his tie and then I go and tell the rocker that the mod 's been rude about him , we 'll get them burning down the pier . ’ |
| 24 | and then they could bring the Metro over , if I go and do some shopping on my way out now at Asda |
| 25 | What I am trying to do is to , is to question the wisdom of introducing more rules and regulations and every time I try and raise this issue , whether it be in standing committee or on the floor of the house , quite understandably the chairman or the speaker , deputy speaker in your case , raises the point that in fact I 'm going outside the rules and regulations and the result is you can never challenge the whole principle because every time one tries to challenge it one gets up and that 's the disease I 'm afraid we 've now er facing in this country . |
| 26 | I shout and shriek all day long ! |
| 27 | Oh well er I got tired of it you know so I went and got another place . |
| 28 | I went and got last night and I 'm saying to him , now give me your numbers . |
| 29 | After I 'd finished I went and did six months in Banbury in er Oxfordshire er doing surgery . |
| 30 | I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him . |