Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 2 | I think she thought Emily would be able to earn her living as a governess or lady 's companion , in the end , but she 's too idle and she has n't the wit . |
| 3 | I do and she walks out the room . |
| 4 | ‘ Make yourself some coffee , ’ the Rasta says , and he picks up the phone . |
| 5 | And he tells how the SAS photograph the layout of every room in royal residences to be prepared for any kidnap or siege drama . |
| 6 | Professor Uitsmijter has suggested what at first seems a crazy solution to my translation problems : I place my tape-recorder next to the phone , he records the laibon 's words in Nairobi and he faxes back the translation . |
| 7 | And he moves up the scale from the creation of individual regional statutes , to address the law enforcement problems caused by peculiar geography , to the place of the law in the body politic . |
| 8 | Once he is distracted , I push on hard and he gives up the game . |
| 9 | Well , I finally got Miguel to talk to them about it and it turns out the reason there are n't any old folk around is because they do n't live much longer than about 35 . |
| 10 | And it illumines too the politics of personal relations : the vital fabric of social life that exists in the silence between people — exactly that space which is filled by music : ‘ As the person talked to me in a conventional conversation , I knew , I heard that , inside himself , the person perhaps wept . ’ |
| 11 | and put your heel down and it clips up the back , it was like |
| 12 | And it describes how the requirements of I S O Nine Thousand and One are satisfied within the group . |
| 13 | It comes from RHM Research and it shows how the company rescued valuable 16th and 17th century books that had been waterlogged in a flood at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire . |
| 14 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 15 | and it gives up the ghost . |
| 16 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 17 | Reality overtakes it and it has n't the reserves to claw back . |
| 18 | It 's o onl only a thought anyway , we just , as I say we 're just erm we 're mulling it over and it has n't the jobs have n't even come up yet , but erm it 's , it 's it 's a means to a |
| 19 | There was a low murmur of consternation round the bus and , encouraged by it , he went on , ‘ Yes , it just takes one little ting loik dat and it snarls up the traffic for da whole day ! ’ |
| 20 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 21 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 22 | And it cuts down the work then . |