Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive uses the Chevvy like a normal family car … he takes it to work and uses it to pick up the shopping . |
| 2 | The replicase apparatus immediately gets to work and manufactures lots of copies of the newly introduced RNA molecules , which spread through the test-tube . |
| 3 | It opens its mouth to scream and releases its hold . |
| 4 | The Lifetime Cookware range is made of the very finest mirror-polished stainless steel which is easy to clean and maintains its good looks . |
| 5 | When the net has been pursed and brought to the side of the boat , the seiner can release the tension on the headrope of the net by the backdown procedure , which enables the back of the net with the finer mesh to sink and makes it easier for dolphins to escape , while the tuna continue to swim around in the net below . |
| 6 | ‘ My assistant 's prepared a list of people to see and places you should visit . ’ |
| 7 | Even if the male is not ready to spawn and chases him away , She swims in this fashion while being pursued , and returns to her chosen mate as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Thus a better strategy to employ is one that teaches her to wait and rewards her for doing so . |
| 9 | The Varga Plants , a wound from whose thorns replaces a man 's thoughts with an overwhelming urge to kill and turns him into one of themselves , grow naturally only on the planet whose laboratories have developed them : Skaro , home of the Daleks . |
| 10 | I was n't particularly enamoured of the Ascom but the UltraFAX software is excellent , it 's easy to use and wins my seal of approval . |
| 11 | The keyboard is fine to use and allows you to change many of the machine 's settings on the fly — processor clock speed , LCD backlight , switching to an external display , the greyscale colour mapping , and so on . |
| 12 | The Commission make us do things that we do not want to do and stops us doing what we want to . |
| 13 | It already makes us do things that we do not want to do and stops us doing things that we want to do . |
| 14 | The lightweight ‘ On And On ’ gains pounds as that naggingly effective chorus does what all choruses are supposed to do and lodges itself in your memory banks . |
| 15 | The very act of writing it out clarifies what you need to do and provides you with an agenda to work towards . |
| 16 | Ever since , he has been unable to rest and bemoans his gluttony and foolhardiness . |
| 17 | A monstrous box of pastel neon with two huge fountains playing outside the entrance , BCM cost some £5 million to build and takes its name from the owner 's initials — if the club failed , he said , he 'd be buried and it could be his mausoleum . |
| 18 | ‘ My father paints , now chiefly icons , painting straight on to board and insists he is not a line-drawing man . |
| 19 | She likes to cook and does my favourite meals to perfection , ’ said Keith , 48 . |
| 20 | Later , to her husband , she said , ‘ It 's pathetic , Tom , she 's no idea how to love and considers herself unlovable . ’ |
| 21 | Envy is one of the strongest antidotes to love and has its roots in the innate and primitive anger and anxiety of infancy . |
| 22 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 23 | She rescues him , drives him out of town as dawn starts to break and leaves him in a wheatfield . |
| 24 | It is suitably complex to have taken 600 people five years to develop and succeeds its 10-year-old predecessor , R2 which has been installed in some 1,500 worldwide sites . |
| 25 | It is suitably complex to have taken 600 people five years to develop and succeeds its 10-year-old predecessor , R2 which has been installed in some 1,500 worldwide sites . |
| 26 | I 've always loved cleaning , it helps me to think and stops me getting ideas above my station . |
| 27 | The North-East gives them room to expand and offers their employees a higher quality of life . |
| 28 | This makes women cheaper to dismiss and makes them more vulnerable to redundancy . |
| 29 | At the end of the Mass there is a touching prayer as men go out into the world linking the sacrament of the one bread which binds all men in God with the bread and ale of human meeting : In the bidding prayers where the priest directs the people to pray and tells them what to pray for , probably after the offering and the anthem , again attention is directed to all estates of society , living and dead , including religious , both monastic and secular . |
| 30 | Drama school is n't going to teach anybody to act but it does give the vital techniques with which to act and gives you a chance to make mistakes , experiment and find out about yourself . |