Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other side is the consciousness of perfection and blessedness which we recognise as mediated to us through Jesus and communicated to us by him . |
| 2 | I used to go and stay with them in their homes — in London , in Sussex , in Devonshire … ’ |
| 3 | I go and sit beside him on his boxes and feel much the same as he does . |
| 4 | I was then attacked by six 109s and diced with them without anything firm being achieved other then preserving my own neck . |
| 5 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 6 | Each writer is introduced by Ms Washington and placed for us against her proper contemporary backdrop , so that we can see and understand some of the pressures and concerns that shaped her writing , her style and her narrative voice . |
| 7 | Ask a friend to observe your performance and to report to you on it with ruthless candour . |
| 8 | After mature deliberation your Committee venture to propose to you to entrust them with powers to digest a scheme for the medical department , to receive claims , and investigate the merits of the different candidates who may propose themselves to fill the different situations in this line , as well as of the subordinate attendants of the house , and to report to you at your next general meeting the names of such persons as to them appear most proper , for your final approbation . ’ |
| 9 | Half the people I know came up and condoled with me on your ‘ Infidelity ’ . |
| 10 | and he come and lived with her in it . |
| 11 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 12 | The chief allotted Sycorax and Ariel three women to attend them , and then turned to face Kit , and traced between them with his staff three circles in the dust . |
| 13 | He said they must meet later , she must come and eat with him in his room and he would get a bottle of wine . |
| 14 | She 's not going to sit down and laugh and joke over you with anyone else . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 16 | By s.4(2) : A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his direction , except … |
| 17 | They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow . |
| 18 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
| 19 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 20 | The primary source of their superior financial performance is capital gains from acquiring corporate assets and activities that , under present ownership , yield less than their opportunity values , and disposing of them at their higher market values . |
| 21 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 22 | I lay down on him and beat at him with my fists . |
| 23 | To get there they had to cross the mud , and sank in it to their ankles , but below the soft surface the foreshore was hard here , and although it was a filthy journey it was n't particularly difficult . |
| 24 | At one level , therefore , the English Reformation was undoubtedly ‘ an act of state ’ , or perhaps more accurately acts of state — a series of changes initiated by monarchs and imposed by them upon their subjects . |
| 25 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 26 | If his guitar is his lover , watch as he beats her , caresses her and apologises to her in one fell swoop of his arms . |
| 27 | He would be grateful and loving to her throughout his life . |
| 28 | If I make a black man sweep up my trash , empty my dustbins , wash the vomit from my floor and kill for me in my imperialist wars … well , what do you think ? |
| 29 | Athelstan , still feeling depressed after his visit to Hob 's wife , ignored the coroner and pushed by him into his small , two-roomed house . |
| 30 | The two eldest of the ‘ broth ’ agreed with their father , nodding and grinning at him with their mouths full . |