Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 2 | The first was over the board 's decision to close the senior staff dining-room and require staff to eat in the staff canteen : Fred apparently thinks you initiated this policy , and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a limited number of high-quality meals and thus ingratiate himself with the senior staff . |
| 3 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 4 | From the start , the NAPSS had a number of energetic women members , and also concerned itself with the question of women 's employment . |
| 5 | The young man said he would tell her when to get off and then busied himself with an oilcan among the driving wheels . |