Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our young people deserve honesty from ourselves and have a right to it from the Church . |
| 2 | Somehow we break through the barrier of mental blocks with which we tend to limit ourselves and find a greater freedom of both performance and attitude . |
| 3 | It used to hurt me that an African who was considered good enough to hand the cement to the man to lay the bricks could n't get the opportunity to lay the bricks himself and become a qualified tradesman . " |
| 4 | According to his professor , he was thorough and conscientious rather than brilliant , taking his studies very seriously since he wanted both to improve himself and gain a qualification for when he finished playing . |
| 5 | ( a ) The sub-contractor is encouraged to measure the work himself and submit a detailed account to the surveyor together with any daywork sheets signed by the general foreman . |
| 6 | What is wrong with the solipsist 's language is not that there is no community to control it ; Robinson Crusoe can talk to himself and keep a diary on his desert island . |
| 7 | It seems to me that he ca n't be that unhappy because he 's currently managing twelve vacancies deliberately , in order to produce underspend so that he can re-surface his car park , maintain privileged restaurants for his erm , senior officers , chauffeur driven car for himself and build a new hangar for his helicopter . |
| 8 | Whisk the egg which and add a flew drops of flavouring & colouring . |
| 9 | A stack of OHP foils , on the other hand , can be run off on your laser printer for virtually nothing and have a number of significant advantages . |
| 10 | A powerful electric current would pass through me and launch a surge of excitement : something wonderful awaited me . |
| 11 | You shall come with me and write a model report . ’ |
| 12 | But I mean my cleaner used to come in and just sort of like clean around me and chat a bit . |
| 13 | Would you guys like to look at me and ask a answer a question . |
| 14 | You 'll oblige me and fetch a priest here who can do the marrying , and a skinful of wine for everyone and food for a month or more , since we 're settling . |
| 15 | Why is n't there somebody there to bag them for me and create a service ? |
| 16 | I stole a quick sidelong glance , and saw him turn his head at the same instant to look at me and give a faint smile . |
| 17 | I feel around me and find a branch to sit on . |
| 18 | In fact I 'll even be super-optimistic for me and predict a clean sheet with Quinn 's injury . |
| 19 | So stay with me and have a go . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're welcome to walk back home with Will and me and have a cup of tea for your trouble . ’ |
| 21 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 22 | And then she will take a few days off from seeing anybody except me and do a bit of work . |
| 23 | ‘ This man is of no more use to the world than those artists who came to fawn on me and scrape a little importance for themselves . |
| 24 | The student should look out for them and make a mental note of their fascinating and beautiful effect . |
| 25 | First of all they are sorted into groups of similar material : pottery , brooches , pieces of worked stone , and so on ; these may be sent at this stage to various specialists , who will study them and write a technical report . |
| 26 | To keep them clean , simply wash them and use a good copper polish . |
| 27 | ‘ The trouble is people take one look at them and stick a label on you . |
| 28 | She will slow her pace down for them and keep a close eye on them as they amble along near her , but she will not let them get too far away from the home base . |
| 29 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 30 | As part of the improved conditions Bilal 's partner started taking us through the kitchen once or twice a week to sit with them and get a bit of sun . |