Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] and [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What makes them think and function in the way they do ? |
| 2 | We are more seriously cheating children if we fail to teach them how to use language than if we fail to teach them to enjoy and participate in the arts . |
| 3 | In an interview in 1983 Bishop Peter said : ‘ I have a house full of young people who spend a year with me praying and working in the community to get closer to God , and I let them impinge on my ministry . |
| 4 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 5 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 6 | I 've got some apples erm I stewed and stuck in the freezer , to make |
| 7 | The warmth and obvious pleasure of everyone I meet and see in the Cynon Valley that day is humbling and exhilirating . |
| 8 | Yet among the many people I teach and guide in the alps , an inability or unwillingness to memorise their route is perhaps the most common failing , and this applies to very able climbers as well as novices . |
| 9 | I go and change in the toilet and wear my mac like a dressing gown , and then hop into my sleeping bag and take it off . |
| 10 | I mean I sometimes when I 'm performing on stage and people are laughing so much in the audience I think god , you know why ca n't I go and sit in the audience and watch this , they 're laughing so much . |
| 11 | We said goodbye , and I went and waited in the hall , which was ablaze with the Matisse colours of Christmas decorations . |
| 12 | I went and looked in the dustbin to see if he was back in there but . |
| 13 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 14 | I went and stood in the sitting room doorway , but I could n't get any further — my legs would n't move . |
| 15 | I went and stood in the corridor and watched the towns and villages flash past ; we went through Chalon-sur-Saône , Dijon and on towards Lyons . |
| 16 | I went and stood in the kitchen door , while he watched the vriki . |
| 17 | I went and stood in the doorway of my office , indicating that I was ready to start work again . |
| 18 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 19 | I went and sat in the churchyard and wept for Mrs Mitchell and Nelly and prayed for myself to be forgiven and for them to be looked after . |
| 20 | I went and sat in the sun on the garage roof , now that it was quiet . |
| 21 | ‘ A Transatlantic expression meaning — ’ I paused and looked in the air for inspiration . ' |
| 22 | For these services , and following a series of travel talks which I wrote and broadcast in the autumn of 1929 , I was made an Honorary Member of the M.J.A.R.A. , and appointed to the executive committee . |
| 23 | In the affluent 1960s he chaired a committee on which I sat and participated in the agreeable task of giving away large sums of private money to deserving research projects . |
| 24 | For several minutes she heard them splashing and laughing in the water , then gradually quiet returned to the camp . |
| 25 | I do , I think I 've got somebody buying me another so I go and look into that oh I do what Mavis does now , she goes and looks in the book shop |
| 26 | She gobbled and gabbled in the mornings — that was to do with her teeth , not very pretty either . |
| 27 | The duvet wound itself around her as she turned and stretched in the big bed , her limbs languid with heat . |
| 28 | ( b ) they are more efficient and thus save you time and work in the long term . |
| 29 | The audience hushed , watching her face expectantly , as she writhed and bucked in the saddle , holding her head between her palms , and whimpering in delirious ecstasy . |
| 30 | I felt the soap operas were raising issues about how you survived and coped in the late eighties that both addressed political issues and also involved me emotionally , whereas nothing about the formal election coverage got to me at all — apart from the Labour Party Political Broadcast , the first one in history to be repeated by popular demand ! |