Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting down his glass and removing hers , he gripped her shoulders and propelled her to stand in front of the mirror . |
| 2 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 3 | and make them die of income tax . |
| 4 | Two days ago I ate baited carrion left out for fox or crow over in Skye and its effects were to poison me and make me feel near death . |
| 5 | And make us see through wine as if through glass . |
| 6 | It was hard enough to stare at his photograph and make it come to life , but it was impossible to imagine the figure in the picture living in the sort of conditions which Normandin and others had described . |
| 7 | I remember lunching with him in that miserable dining-room in Wakefield and seeing him lost in contemplation of the " beautiful way in which the gravy formed a curve " on his plate — at least that was what he said he saw when I asked him ! |
| 8 | One reason for the interest in rates of home ownership among the older age groups is the potential of realizing the asset and using it to pay for care . |
| 9 | So Malcolm went down Club Row market and bought us a cat and the most ridiculously horrible food — tins of sardines and those disgusting tinned plum tomatoes they used to try and make you eat at school . |
| 10 | He lit the gas-fire and made her kneel in front of it to warm herself . |
| 11 | It has affected me and made me pause for thought . |
| 12 | Women have grabbed rock by the balls and made it squeal in agony . |
| 13 | Right at this moment she would have given anything for a sight of Shirley and endured her fussing with pleasure . |
| 14 | On the positive side though , these politicians got things done , and got them done in detail ( the use by Kleon , then absent from Athens , of his son-in-law Thoudippos to move the complex reassessment decree of 425 implies efficiency and a refusal to trust to luck . |
| 15 | To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous . |
| 16 | The column was prepared by suspending the Amberlyst A-15 in 72% ethanol for 24 hours before slurrying it into columns and allowing it to settle by gravity . |
| 17 | Alternatively , try rubbing over gold with a very small amount of modern PVA emulsion and glue and allowing it to dry as preparation for water-based paint . |
| 18 | It was the best choice for her , because she could decide which weeks she wanted free — and timed them to coincide with school holidays . |
| 19 | By experiencing beauty in such things , the contrasts and rhymes they present to perception are clarified and balanced . |
| 20 | To inform teachers , lecturers and other academics of the work of AI and to encourage them to campaign on behalf of their colleagues around the world who have become the victims of human rights abuse . |
| 21 | And he knew that Marama , because of her title , would always be looked after if she stayed on Koraloona , so it would be wrong of him to be selfish and expect her to live in semi-starvation on a strange island . |
| 22 | If children were egocentric , the capacity to sustain an effective dialogue would be impossible , for this requires the ability to switch speaker and listener roles constantly , to monitor the effects of one 's messages , and to modify them according to feedback received from the listener . |
| 23 | But the influence of one mind over another is very subtle , and of all influences religious influence is the most dangerous and the most powerful , and to counteract it courts of equity have gone very far . |
| 24 | She 's got some and told her to stay at home . |
| 25 | One bloke burst in and told us to go to bed . |
| 26 | Closet countrysiders may want to pretend their patch is actually a corner of some Sussex meadow and picture it swagged with honeysuckle and waving with ox-eye daisies and scabious . |
| 27 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 28 | The land would have to be cleared and drained , of course , but we could leave some of the better trees and let them grow to maturity . |
| 29 | ‘ Aline , be a dear sweet girl and go away and let me die in peace . |
| 30 | Now stop behaving like an arch temptress and let us go to table . ’ |