Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I can only say that the Master will not like it if his breakfast and lunch do not arrive on time , because he serves his maid coffee , engages her in chit-chat , and encourages her to read disreputable papers when she ought to be blackleading the range , or scrubbing the kitchen floor . ’ |
| 2 | Organisational learning , where the ‘ organisation ’ stores experiences in forms , procedures and rules , and uses them to teach new staff and retrain others , can encourage adaptiveness to change . |
| 3 | In her most fundamental expression , the Queen of the Night draws on primitive currents of energy and uses them to fulfil instinctive drives that know little of honour , justice , compassion , or other civilized values . |
| 4 | It 's useful when you 've got to contact lots of staff or get information to many people at the same time and allows you to put detailed information down . |
| 5 | Maybe your financial position has changed recently and plans you made some time ago need reviewing . |
| 6 | Now he has been promoted and says he needs more time . |
| 7 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 8 | Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter . |
| 9 | It protects them and ensures they receive adequate payment for their musical skills . |
| 10 | He then returns to his first mate , the primary female , whose eggs are by now just hatching , and helps her raise this brood . |
| 11 | If it brings us closer together , and helps us to write better poems , I would be willing to trade some sex with you . |
| 12 | Tackling revision questions with fellow students reminds you that you 're not alone ; it allows you to comment constructively on one another 's outline answers ; it saves time ; it is mutually supportive and helps you maintain good morale . |
| 13 | Christine is continuing her collection and asks us to tell all knitters in the Crewe/Stoke-on-Trent area that two wool shops near you have offered to collect full or part cones in good , clean condition . |
| 14 | It may be that osteopathy or chiropractic could help ; and both osteopaths and chiropractors have had a long training which includes medical education and qualifies them to give valuable help with backache . |
| 15 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 16 | John Galloway at the Cancer Research Campaign feels that there are only two relevant questions : has he got any money , and does he have any teeth ? |
| 17 | Is there a widow/widower 's pension and does it get contractual increases ? |
| 18 | And does it have central heating and , if so , what type ? |
| 19 | Failure to file the annual return alerts the Registrar and enables him to take appropriate steps leading to the companies ' removal from the register . |
| 20 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 21 | Encouraging each governor to adopt a class and giving them an opportunity to report back on their visits helps governors to have a sense of purpose and enables them to frame general reports and LEA/DES regulations in the context of their adopted classes and children . |
| 22 | It helps a great deal to keep us in touch with what 's happening at school and enables us to exert some influence , I suppose , on what happens in schools , hopefully in the interests of the candidates . |
| 23 | In visor and sunshades I swatted antipodean flies , my cheeks padded with sponges and my eyes squinting through blue contact lenses , and the whole world thought it was a backdrop . |
| 24 | This gives the novel great feeling and makes you ask many questions about how everything will link in together in the end . |
| 25 | He hands me a billy and suggests I get some snow for water and a few twigs to start the fire . |