Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a kind of Giant Holdfast who both loves and terrorizes his children . |
| 2 | I mean , she 's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him . |
| 3 | This is because each agency has to fight for its share of the overall intelligence budget and in the process exaggerates and distorts its reports so as to pander to the whims of those who hold the purse-strings . |
| 4 | Set against this picture and parallel to the theory that accompanies and supports it is the idea of the possibility of order as a creation of social instruments ordained for that very task , namely teachers , police , social workers , and perhaps , in the last resort , parents . |
| 5 | Locke 's claim that prior to experience the mind is ‘ white paper , void of all characters ’ , and that all its ideas , the materials of knowledge , come from that source , had been made earlier by Gassendi , but he defends and explains it at much greater length . |
| 6 | Clive uses the Chevvy like a normal family car … he takes it to work and uses it to pick up the shopping . |
| 7 | The replicase apparatus immediately gets to work and manufactures lots of copies of the newly introduced RNA molecules , which spread through the test-tube . |
| 8 | He often picks out distinct things which he notices and writes them down to make us ‘ see ’ for ourselves . |
| 9 | Finally , write down the gist of what you hear ; this stops you interrupting and means you do n't have to rely on that useless thing , memory . |
| 10 | Although the mite rarely kills bees , it weakens and deforms them , reducing their ability to make honey . |
| 11 | it weakens and breaks it off . |
| 12 | BUT it 's not like The U2 or The U2s , which is already happening and ruins it . ’ |
| 13 | This makes it vomit and gives it diarrhoea , so you 're flushing the toxins out of both ends . |
| 14 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 15 | ‘ We gets what we want and puts it in the freezer — got no use for shoppin' us . ’ |
| 16 | In these situations the Pump Wagon sustains D6 strength 6 hits due to damage sustained as it crunches and smashes its way through . |
| 17 | These stories also serve to give to the part-time reserve police a self-respect which they feel is otherwise lacking from an organization which undervalues and marginalizes them . |
| 18 | The Howie Report receives details scrutiny from , who explores the different messages it contains and relates them to Scotland 's past and future . |
| 19 | Each of the four poems has five sections , and each of the sections reflects upon its counterparts in the other poems ; just as each poem develops and resolves its theme , so " Little Gidding " gathers up the three preceding ones in a magisterial synthesis . |
| 20 | develops and trains them for promotion |
| 21 | and finds a phone he rings and tells her . |
| 22 | Three years ago it was sold to a Dr William Baxter , who lives and operates his surgery there . |
| 23 | Vronsky accepts and loves her , but in the end she ca n't believe even he respects her and convinces herself he does n't . |
| 24 | It opens its mouth to scream and releases its hold . |
| 25 | One of the monks , describing the presence , said he could ‘ perceive the fragrance of such a wonderful odour , as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together in one place ; I feel also a glow of heat within me — not at all painful , but most pleasing — and a certain unusual and unexplainable joy poured into my heart , which all of a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me I forget grief and weariness of every kind ’ . |
| 26 | They lay down their pens and flex their fingers , as she pauses and shuffles her notes preparatory to the next stage of her exposition . |
| 27 | She pauses and closes her eyes as if in deep concentration . |
| 28 | Pat shares some of the problems she has solved and tips she has been given before answering the questions raised at this month 's meeting . |
| 29 | This is updated as the system works through the files to be offlined and copies them onto the media item . |
| 30 | He practises tilting his pelvis in the correct pattern as he moves forwards and backwards , and he straightens and relaxes his knees as instructed and guided . |