Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 2 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 3 | Robyn coughed violently and wiped at her by now streaming eyes . |
| 4 | And now we 've found a fine warren and got into it without even having to fight , you 've got to do your best to upset everyone ! |
| 5 | He shut the door of his apartment and turned to her at once , putting her shoulders against the wall , knocking her legs apart with his knee . |
| 6 | ‘ an ungainly , awkward-looking man , extremely short-sighted and prematurely bald ’ who was ‘ perhaps about thirty , but … might have been almost any age between sixteen and sixty : being one of those strange creatures who never decline into ancient appearance , but look their oldest when they are very young , and get over it at once ’ . |
| 7 | Moving his head a fraction , he opened his eyes the merest slit and scowled at her from under thick dark lashes . |
| 8 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 9 | She clutched her dress to her and looked at him with as much scorn as she could . |
| 10 | I regarded it with distaste , decided that the rain would have washed it reasonably clean , then dragged it clear of the bog myrtle and looked around me for somewhere to dump it out of sight . |
| 11 | I promise to love you and stay with you for ever . |
| 12 | Merrill clasped her hands and stared at him with softly humourous eyes . |
| 13 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 14 | I went up to him and gushed at him for about twenty minutes , told him we were making an album , asked him to sing on it and he said , ‘ Sure . ’ |
| 15 | I ca n't hear you love , you 'll have to come and talk to me in here . |
| 16 | That 's right , if you 're organizing something like that and thinking about it from now , this is only the first of September , but |
| 17 | ( 4 ) Either : ( a ) the enterprises are both engaged in supplying or consuming goods or services of the same description and have between them at least 25 per cent of the market of those goods or services in the United Kingdom or a substantial part of it ( the " market share test " ) ; or ( b ) the gross value of the assets acquired exceeds £30,000,000 ( the " assets test " ) . |
| 18 | His eyes were small , deep grey , and snapped at her from behind round steel-framed glasses . |