Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or he 'll rip up our trucks and tear us all into little bite-sized chunks of meat , sir . ’ |
| 2 | Nonetheless the suggestions outlined in this paper would put new teachers in a strong position to teach language awareness , and make them familiar with important issues in the social dimensions of language in Britain today , both with respect to minority languages and with regard to the linguistic needs of society as a whole . |
| 3 | The suggestion is that this will reduce their chances of finding such work themselves and make them dependent for informal assistance on others whose circumstances are similar to their own . |
| 4 | It had managed to reach the mass of people and make them aware of possible means of tackling their problems . |
| 5 | Such a split should clarify the distribution of costs and make it easier for competing train services to run on the same track . |
| 6 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 7 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |
| 8 | Important debt agreements ended the country 's isolation from the international financial community and made it eligible for fresh multilateral agency loans . |
| 9 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 11 | Alain Lemarchand turned and regarded them both with ironic amusement . |
| 12 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 13 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 14 | The idea is to pick up individual blocks , move them around and drop them next to matching blocks to make them disappear . |
| 15 | Then Miss Harker lifted her head and addressed them all in solemn tones . |
| 16 | Many thanks to everyone who helped with the Motivation Survey last year — the results underline the need this year to take every possible opportunity for free local publicity would you all contact your local Borough Recreation Officer ( or any other official source ) for a list of forthcoming events and get us involved with static and/or physical displays whenever suitable . |
| 17 | Forestry workers say joyriders who steal cars and set them alight in isolated woodland risk causing a devastating forest fire . |
| 18 | I still see fishkeepers purchasing ‘ state of the art ’ power filters such as Eheim , Shark , Fluval etc , and stuffing them full of little other than filter-wool . |
| 19 | A sensor on a receiver picks this up and reconverts it first into electrical information then into sound . |
| 20 | We strap them to the plane 's fuselage and pump them full of compressed air until we achieve neutral buoyancy . ’ |
| 21 | He rushed to St Mary 's Hospital , Paddington , and , after the hours of waiting that are statutory in hospitals , finally persuaded a callow houseman to examine him and pronounce him clear of German measles . |
| 22 | Again , there is no real need to comment — except that it is the media planner 's job both to discourage the creative group from trying to produce massive , spectacular ads when the budget is minimal , and to keep them aware of new ideas and ways of using the media . |
| 23 | The precise number of homeworkers is hard to assess , and so is their real pay , for many of them do piece-work , and find it hard to calculated how much they do . |
| 24 | Why not use it today and keep it handy for future checks ? |
| 25 | Some were real scrambles and gave me hundreds of grey hairs . |
| 26 | Shore significantly developed a style of playing by which the trumpet escaped from the restrictions of a purely military style and took its place in England as an orchestral instrument , so giving valuable stimulus to Henry Purcell [ q.v. ] and making it possible for English trumpeters to meet the requirements of the music of G. F. Handel [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | That is why the IAEA approached France and the United Kingdom asking for assistance in removing the material and making it safe in specialised facilities . |
| 28 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 29 | On the way back to his conversation the barman punched a button on the television and suddenly they were in Texas , where folk lived and loved fit to bust and discussed it all in idiomatic but poorly synchronized Italian . |
| 30 | That is what attracts investment from abroad and makes it profitable for domestic industry to invest as well . |