Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It is generally assumed that in the absence of methodological artifacts visual laterality effects in normals arise either because one cerebral hemisphere is relatively inefficient at processing or retrieving the stimulus material presented and/or because one hemisphere can not fully process the information and has to send it across the corpus callosum to the opposite hemisphere .
2 It 's sad , you know ’ — she turned about and looked at Peggy ‘ It is sad when a mother outshines a daughter , and aims to do it to the extent of trying to fascinate her son-in-law .
3 The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end .
4 She 's met a lot of friends here and and likes to meet them in the canteen .
5 She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation .
6 Somebody purchases alcohol from an off-licence and proceeds to drink it in the open air , usually in a secluded place called a ‘ bushing spot ’ .
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