Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dig in they might … but after a worthy battle , the ground finally slipped away beneath them and had to settle for second place . |
| 2 | Hoping against all hope that Claire had n't snapped the last link between them and gone to look for that bastard … |
| 3 | Accordingly , women may abandon them and try to fit into institutional patterns which make no sense to them but which they are constantly assured are superior . |
| 4 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |
| 5 | Mo agreed that even politicians could not please everybody and moved to talk to 31-year-old Sandra Gordon-Morgan , a part-time dressmaking teacher who lost her job when the local authority cut its adult education budget . |
| 6 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 7 | And it was just after Frank had left her and gone to live in that place in . |