Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , should we not use our strength and influence to try to organise throughout the west a Marshall plan , similar to the one after the second world war , to strengthen the hands of those who are doing their utmost to stave off anything approximating to anarchy ? |
| 2 | They paly the role of a chemical filter , modifying the incoming melt by storing and mixing magmas before eruption , and allowing melts to interact with the chamber walls . |
| 3 | Fault-tolerant systems manufacturer Stratus Computer Inc will join the exodus out of the Intel Corp 80860 RISC camp after one more iteration and has decided to switch to the Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC . |
| 4 | In some ways Alison seems very cool about her condition and has remained detached from the experiences she is describing . |
| 5 | ‘ Women 's Lib ’ has matured and has become incorporated into the language and into the superficial behaviour of most self-respecting liberal socialists . |
| 6 | Countess Olivia , who recently lost her brother and father , is now in deep mourning and has vowed to live like a recluse for seven years . |
| 7 | owing to the war and to the desperate poverty and ruin , [ the proletariat ] has been declassed , i.e. dislodged from its class groove , and has ceased to exist as a proletariat … |
| 8 | This has always added to the clergy 's spiritual authority and status , and has tended to merge with the authority claimed by the clergy in matters of faith and morals , with the high clergy deciding what constitutes matters of faith and morals . |
| 9 | Compare this to the golfer in diagram B. He has not taken such a positive approach to the same tee-shot , and has failed to stand behind the ball-to-target line before addressing the ball . |
| 10 | British television was created with this idea in its heart , and has continued to develop over the last fifty years with these ideals firmly at the forefront . |
| 11 | The four other men at the table with him sensed his panic and stopped talking to look at the newcomer . |
| 12 | Many respondents , especially those answering ‘ no ’ , interpreted question 1 by focusing on the traditional model of sole practice , and appear to have answered on the assumption that support for any enforced modification of the present model would give rise to a negative response . |
| 13 | In an apparent effort to improve relations with the United States , the government of North Korea on June 24 returned the remains of 11 US servicemen killed in the 1950-53 Korean War , and promised to help search for a further 9,000 allied military personnel still officially listed as missing in action [ see also p. 37456 ] . |
| 14 | Lee felt jealous , lumpy , and tried to let go of the feeling as she arranged the flowers in the kitchen . |
| 15 | Fell in love with the Duke of Athens ’ sweet little widow , and tried to get rid of the Patriarch of Constantinople when he would n't let him divorce his first wife . |
| 16 | In September 1977 , my girlfriend Lynn and I eloped and tried to get married at the Ali-Shavers bout . |
| 17 | Miss Downey , who now lives in a Los Angeles suburb , has already talked to architects and plans to start building in the spring . |
| 18 | He accused her of crying wolf and prepared to go riding on the Sandringham estate . |
| 19 | Catching sight of her , the boy Charles — see him now ! — wants To follow his father 's model : he asks , he begs for a keen horse , Urgently demands weapons , quiver and swift arrows , And craves to go chasing after the doe , just as his father himself would do . |
| 20 | Olivine and plagioclase continue to crystallize in the upper layer until critical concentrations are again reached and another pulse of sedimentation occurs . |
| 21 | Shanti has told me that when she was about seven , she used to tell the children at school that she was really the daughter of an Indian princess , and used to pretend to talk in an Indian language ! |
| 22 | However , the Khmers Rouges rejected the call , and vowed to continue fighting until the final Vietnamese had left Cambodia . |
| 23 | When you are helping the patient to wash , you should try to follow the same sequence as the nurse , and remember to keep describing to the patient everything that is happening . |
| 24 | It was as if we were thought of as an extension of a civil service in which the expression of contentious opinions would be frowned upon and whistle blowing seen as a crime . |
| 25 | By the time ‘ 85/'86 came around , Swans were untouchable and starting to show sings of a belated accessibility . |
| 26 | The Ibos in Nigeria and the Bamilike in Cameroun are both groups who in the 1950s and 1960s respectively made a bid for predominant national power ; they failed , and continue to feel excluded from the political mainstream of their countries . |
| 27 | Apart from being sick and having to keep going to the loo I loved being pregnant . |
| 28 | We haggle over the prices and try to avoid looking at the piles of fruit and salad vegetables on every stall . |
| 29 | And try to avoid travelling in the rush hour … there 's nothing worse than the combination of a traffic jam and a screaming baby , believe me ! |
| 30 | Several girls had been badly beaten and threatened by these men and forced to return to return to the streets for fear of their lives . ’ |