Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 2 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 3 | Subject to paragraphs 5 and 6 below , the Funding Council shall have the power — ( a ) to acquire , hold and dispose of land and other property ; ( b ) to enter into contracts , including contracts for the employment of staff for the purposes of the discharge of their functions ; ( c ) to invest any sums not immediately required by the Funding Council for the purpose of their carrying on any of the activities which they have power to carry on ; and ( d ) to accept gifts of money , land or other property and apply it to , or hold or administer it in trust for , the purpose of the discharge of any of their functions . |
| 4 | Assaulting a constable , or obstructing or resisting him in the execution of his duty are all specific statutory offences . |
| 5 | If you are in agreement with the terms and conditions as stated above , will you kindly sign the enclosed copy of this letter where indicated and return it to us . |
| 6 | If you are in agreement with the terms and conditions as stated above , will you kindly sign the enclosed copy of this letter where indicated and return it to us . |
| 7 | If you are in agreement with the terms and conditions as stated above , will you kindly sign the enclosed copy of this letter where indicated and return it to us . |
| 8 | The work offered is often seasonal , like making Christmas decorations or making and packing anything from toy guns to cheap electric heaters . |
| 9 | Some of their stores were swept away , some of their mounts and pack-horses were bogged , or foundered and damaged themselves in the stones of the river beds . |
| 10 | Or write or write it on the table and the table |
| 11 | Digging them up for fuel or compost , or draining and ploughing them for farming and forestry , causes significant emissions of carbon dioxide to the air . |
| 12 | An alternative in churches where hymn books are given out is to note the empty spaces in the shelves where they are stacked or count those that remain and deduct them from the total . |
| 13 | It seems to me , and we shall look at this in Chapter Seven when we examine the notion of unconscious learning in drama , that there is some truth in Brian Way 's claim that relishing and enjoying something without fully understanding it can be of value . |
| 14 | Then he turned to Shelley , and with a gesture that touched and surprised her by its gentleness , he put up his hand to her cheek . |
| 15 | Unlike some foreign restaurants that try and transplant you to distant shores by piping out Zorba , Pavarotti or the Bombay sitar quartet , thankfully L'Alouette does n't bother . |
| 16 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |
| 17 | It was this desire to win that dragged and sucked them into the war . |
| 18 | As a precaution , Alexandra took her fork round to the far side of the wain , in case her mother should be looking from a window , and plunged and twisted it in most expertly in order to bring out a huge wedge of tawny grasses , cut last summer in these very meadows . |
| 19 | Byers Green was designated category D. Peggy Hutchinson objected and fought and saved it from demolition . |
| 20 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 21 | Whirlwinds , water spouts , twisting and entangling and spinning us to destruction . |
| 22 | ‘ Very likely not , but that does n't dispense me from taking nourishment at regular intervals , nor other people from cooking and serving and ordering it for me . ’ |
| 23 | Better to surrender quietly to that hell of pain , to slide into it , to crumble and fold like burning straw , to merge and coalesce and become one with it , until , phoenix-like , she floated away on the other side , whole and free . |
| 24 | The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months . |
| 25 | If you have to share , clean the used equipment immediately it was last used , separate the needle , barrel and plunger and clean them in hot tap water and washing up liquid , remove all traces of blood , rinse the works thoroughly with clean water and do the same with any spoons etc . |
| 26 | I shook my head , and she smiled and nodded and patted me on the shoulder and padded off to the kitchen . |
| 27 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 28 | Jason and Rachel Sheffield rush between us , helping with the boat , and there is Jean who has been our main support and encouraged and organized us through all the long months of preparation , fed us , nagged us and even done my washing ! |
| 29 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 30 | For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition . |