Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [pron] of the " in BNC.

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1 In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used .
2 It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization .
3 When he is shown a pair of faces and has to decide which of the two is a celebrity , he performs at chance level , even though he performs almost as well as normal subjects on this task when the faces are replaced by their names .
4 She looked at her daughter 's lovely face , and tried to warn her of the dangers of love , but the girl did not listen .
5 Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury .
6 She leaned on the fence , wrapped her coat more closely round her body and tried to assimilate something of the tranquillity of the night , but all she could think of was the hurt in Barney 's eyes and the stiffness of his voice .
7 And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future .
8 And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future .
9 As an actor , Charles could feel all the elements in the voice and begin to feel something of the man .
10 But she had never felt at home with him , perhaps because , with his confident good looks and the air of arrogance in his bearing , he seemed both to represent and to have absorbed something of the mystery and potency of the power he operated .
11 In response , Robert Gelbard , who ended his three-year term as US ambassador on July 5 , stated that Alcoreza was corrupt and that the whole naval contingent in Santa Ana was protecting the drug traffickers and had informed them of the raid .
12 If I asked a question of him then he 'd answer seriously , but if I floated a question and waited to see which of the students would pick it up I could guarantee that it would never be Holly .
13 In my view that course of conduct by the landlord seriously interfered with the tenant 's proper freedom of action in exercising her right of possession , and tended to deprive her of the full benefit of it , and was an invasion of her rights as tenant to remain in possession undisturbed , and so would in itself constitute a breach of covenant , even if there were no direct physical interference with the tenant 's possession and enjoyment .
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