Example sentences of "[prep] and [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he put one on he sort of and pulls them down , erm to his ears so that |
| 2 | Mostly my father just gives me the money that I ask for and lets me get what I want for myself . |
| 3 | But everything beyond what he pays for and sees himself get is suspicious to him . |
| 4 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 5 | What typically happens is that , in the negotiation process , one speaker realises that his version is incompatible with what the other appears to be talking about and makes his contributions compatible with ‘ what I think you ( not we ) are talking about ’ . |
| 6 | I know inside Mr Crangle is curious only as to what I 'm like and wishes me no real harm , but there are others who do . ’ |
| 7 | There are effects of specific context ( for example , the piece of discourse currently being processed has to be fitted into and has its processing guided by the preceding and already-processed discourse ) ; and there are effects of general context ( for example , the listener/reader can draw upon his background knowledge of what the world is like to guide his discourse interpretation ) . |
| 8 | Andy takes the branch we hit the man with and wedges it under the grating ; part of it sticks through but there 's a stump where a smaller branch has broken off and the grating rests on that , held a half-metre or so off the stone rim . |
| 9 | We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation . |
| 10 | The adventurers have come upon Maximilian von Steinhoff , a Vampire from Talabheim , and Juliane Fassbinder , a Vampiric Minion ( see New Monsters ) who travels with and protects her master . |
| 11 | Aside from that , it 's a system that adopts a metaphor that everyone is familiar with and implements it in an intuitive way . |
| 12 | He has no one to play ball with and tosses his ball against the wall in a most despondent fashion . |
| 13 | Against the background of this mass of expectations which derives from and constitutes our experience , it must become possible to identify the relevant properties of features of the context of situation in terms of norms of expectation within a particular genre . |
| 14 | It seems to me therefore that the free-thinker and the non-Christian can accept , without offence to his convictions , the fact that Christian morals are the basis of the criminal law and that he can recognize , also without taking offence , that without the support of the Churches the moral order , which has its origin in and takes its strength from , Christian beliefs , would collapse . |
| 15 | Life is a slow , but easy , on the phones until a newcomer breezes in and threatens their jobs , homelife and sanity . |
| 16 | The computer recognises some of the words and phrases which the child types in and reflects them back at the child as open-ended questions that encourage the child to reply . |
| 17 | LT : Oh yes , I see , chips in and finishes it off . |
| 18 | Marie comes back in and gives me a smile . |
| 19 | on disability issues and they have n't been able to find anybody else , but what they 've said , despite extensive attempts the convention has not been able to obtain a replacement for this one , due to and buys us time . |
| 20 | Some unexpected expense always seems to crop up when you least want it to and throws your careful calculations out of the window . |
| 21 | there 's no life on the bench for Hereford manager Greg Downs … he leads on the field … tells them what to and shows them too … he made the goal for max Nicholson last week … |
| 22 | there 's no life on the bench for Hereford manager Greg Downs … he leads on the field … tells them what to and shows them too … he made the goal for max Nicholson last week … |
| 23 | Other arts play their part ( film and theatre , for example ) but reading , because it involves the self in such an intimate and exposing way , and because it penetrates to and engages our unconscious , is particularly potent . |
| 24 | Marie pulls her boots on and says she 's going out to get some fags . |
| 25 | If she has a male boss who has tantrums that would be more appropriate in a three-year-old , a boss who shouts at and bullies her , in the institutional world of male values , she will lose all respect if she cries . |