Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 2 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 3 | Our rambling sketcher did n't , alas , go in himself and record the young phenomenon with his pencil ; but he waited while a French cavalryman paid his penny farthing , entered the caravan , and emerged mouthing ‘ some very choice Norman phraseology ’ . |
| 4 | We see therefore that Boltzmann 's superposition integral is a special case of a more general functional relationship between stress and deformation gradient in which and has the special form in which the kernel function K1 contains t and only in the combination ( t — ) . |
| 5 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 6 | And do you know , ’ he leaned across the table staring at me and tapping the open file softly with his huge fingers , ‘ if tomorrow I decide to release one of them , there will be over three times as much paper-work . ’ |
| 7 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 8 | In his speech , Charles praised my ‘ sterling contribution ’ to the school and shortly after it Paul came up to me and made the touching suggestion that I should give some classes in the summer term — if I was still free . |
| 9 | Come with me and meet the other teachers . |
| 10 | Now she stood beside me and watched the white Lincoln drive out of the boatyard . |
| 11 | The same principle can be drawn from all of them and help the troubled find meaning and purpose in their lives . |
| 12 | The discounts can be 13 per cent or more , a good return for whoever buys them and recovers the full face value a year later from the issuing bank . |
| 13 | A number of pupils and staff are away on a four-day school trip and efforts were being made today to contact them and break the dreadful news . |
| 14 | The Arab states , with the exception of Lebanon and possibly Egypt , might well have resettled the bulk of the refugees , had Israel accepted the principle of the right of return by receiving back about one-quarter of them and had the international community generously funded resettlement . |
| 15 | The Hearthwares and Myrcans were greeted with friendliness and something like relief by the people they came upon — merchants in covered carts , farmers with flocks and herds , women bent under loads of firewood or water , children trailing behind them and eyeing the armoured figures on the big horses in wonder . |
| 16 | There are so many paths and old miners ' tracks around this area of Swaledale that you could spend years walking them and exploring the old workings and still not cover them all . |
| 17 | Sadly for them , their response to it works against them and encourages the very behaviour they fear most . |
| 18 | In fact any intervention with the playing of the game will distort prices , reduce the information contained in them and prevent the full adjustment which is a part and parcel of the creation of wealth in a market economy . |
| 19 | He cut the last of them and followed the red thread back to its source . |
| 20 | Although such findings are not in dispute , and of course are rarely undertaken in areas where public antagonism to the institution is known to run high , there is continual pressure to replicate them and repeat the consoling message . |
| 21 | You just point to them and click the right mouse button . |
| 22 | If they say black cards you say ‘ Good , so I will keep them and take the red cards away ’ . |
| 23 | Very difficult to avoid them and pay the full price for anything . |
| 24 | The wind passed over them and rustled the bare branches of the trees and they still stood . |
| 25 | His mouth was like two halves of a peach when you part them and see the rose-edged pulp inside , before you bite it . |
| 26 | Families picked grapes , trod them and poured the new wine into storage jars . |
| 27 | I 've had mine done twice , mine done twice , mm , the police were up the other day lying in ambush , and I 'd spotted them and phoned the local police station and said there 's men lurking in the bushes of are they policemen ? , she said yes madam , they 're policemen . |
| 28 | Their supporting beams ran through our tiny cabin , and we could put our feet up on them and feel the entire ship squirming and stretching like the spine of a fish . |
| 29 | So that I could kill you and suck the warm blood from your neck . |
| 30 | Mitch goes with you and takes the necessary shots , ’ he added firmly , glancing at Mitch . |