Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must learn to hold ourselves and move with an economy of effort , using no more than the appropriate amount of energy for any activity . |
| 2 | How dare he speculate on the subject , then write his conclusions on a document I must carry round with me and display for a month ? |
| 3 | ‘ I thought to myself , Martha must be growing up now , it 's time she left the country and came to live with me and go to a good school . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd just lie on my back like Marie showed me and float like a fag packet . |
| 5 | She could relax with them and pretend for a while that she was still one of them . |
| 6 | For the previous three years , Nottingham police forced an average 2,561 drivers a year to stop their cars , get out of them and blow into a plastic bag . |
| 7 | Then collect them and sow in a very shallow container like a dish or bowl containing a mixture of coarse sand and loam or fine peat or potting compost . |
| 8 | ‘ Can I sit with you and sunbathe for a while ? |
| 9 | In the cities all protein would eat itself and ooze in a tide into the underbelly , rot eating rot , till the firegas detonated , leaving the cities like mounds of dead , blasted coral . |
| 10 | If we employ the old expression used by so many organizations of capitalism itself and talk in a directly relevant way about ‘ the North East Coast ’ , it is easy to identify a distinctive organization of capital on a regional basis in the era of organized capitalism and recognize a tendency ( but by no means complete process ) of deregionalization in the era of disorganized capitalism . |
| 11 | Edward would come and live on Grace , which would save the rent he was paying on his rooms at present ; the girls , once they were not being prayed for at the grotto , would agree to go back to the nuns ; and with Tilda at school she could go out herself and look for a job . |
| 12 | If not , she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away . |
| 13 | Yet the record of Charles 's actions demonstrates the very opposite : his determined pursuit of his own right to a kingdom in Francia set him and Lothar on a collision course . |
| 14 | She wore a belted Japanese kimono that emphasised her cottage-loaf figure and had a warm , rumpled , half-awake look that made Maxim just want to curl up beside her and sleep for a week . |
| 15 | Think about it and try in a different way another time . |
| 16 | And nerves too when you have a finger whose paralysed and could n't remove it and put in a nerve and then they could work again . |
| 17 | Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge , and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area . |
| 18 | Turn right onto it and go through a large gate by the army range notices . |
| 19 | However did people manage to discipline themselves and stick to a single line for long enough to gain control , to come out on top , to become the boss instead of the employee ? |
| 20 | The more you stand up for yourself and act in a manner you respect , the higher your self-esteem . |
| 21 | Ca n't we sell them ours and put in a new one |
| 22 | to comment on the script of the Video prepared by us and agree on a shooting script with the us ; |
| 23 | to comment on the script of the Video prepared by us and agree on a shooting script with the us ; |
| 24 | to comment on the script of the Video prepared by us and agree on a shooting script with the us ; |