Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
| 2 | Do n't be concerned with the feeling that nothing is " sinking in " but do try and seek out the main points . |
| 3 | I 'd return home and do all the usual things that keep your sense of yourself — eat , play around with children , do my washing , telephone my nearest and dearest , talk late into the night with my hosts , have fantasies , pleasure myself . |
| 4 | The coronation seemed to last for hours , but I managed to say and do all the right things . |
| 5 | She wanted above all else to sleep and blot out the terrifying events of the day . |
| 6 | The study aims to describe and analyse how the various actors involved in police policy-making — the Home Office , Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Constabulary , the Home Secretary , the police authorities , pressure and community groups , political parties , the media , as well as the police themselves — interact to produce changes in the style , organisation or operation of policing on the ground . |
| 7 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 8 | The doctrine of the Trinity ‘ is not an immediate utterance concerning the Christian self-consciousness , but only a combination of several such utterances ’ ; that is , it serves to combine and hold together the different affirmations of the Christian consciousness concerning God the Father , Jesus , and the Holy Spirit , but it is essentially a theological construction which has its place in theology but should not be taken as expressing the truth about God . |
| 9 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 10 | Lee ‘ s briskness had been a last stand and she was ready to turn and walk down the five flights of stairs again when the door in front of her suddenly swung open and Lee found herself walking through the doorway . |
| 11 | If it is a loss of earnings the court has only to ascertain and add up the net earnings lost , and if it is loss caused by out-of-pocket expenditure the court has only to ascertain and add up the total expenditure . |
| 12 | It would be a case of opening the gates thankfully , and letting them pour out and disperse over the neighbouring villages as they would . |