Example sentences of "[pron] and [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | my and just have a heart . |
| 2 | This is also a good method of making someone else fall in without even touching them , since if you sail directly upwind of someone and then oversheet the sail , you create such a disturbed and confused wind that it becomes very difficult to sail in . |
| 3 | For by doing so we can change ourselves and thus change the world around us . |
| 4 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 5 | De Gaulle refused this role for himself and effectively thwarted the chances of a Gaullist party by introducing the old political parties into the CNR in mid-1943 . |
| 6 | Corbett filled the wine cup , drank some himself and then forced the goblet between his servant 's lips , snarling at the porter to bring a blanket . |
| 7 | On the other hand is the car dealer who ‘ clocks ’ the odometer himself and then displays the car for sale . |
| 8 | Athelstan went over and knelt beneath the small , horn-glazed window , crossed himself and gently mouthed the words of David 's psalm . |
| 9 | The afterlife becomes an alternative heroic arena to the smalltown roadhouse , where Swayze proves himself and still gets the girl , even though he 's dead . |
| 10 | You can get a train to Green which and happily spend the next two hours watching the marathon . |
| 11 | He decided to say nothing and quietly placed the bird by the gate leading to the Hauxwell 's place , with its head tucked in as though asleep . |
| 12 | Er I was very conscious that we must be careful , say do nothing and certainly to accept no resolution which might even appear we do n't have a on planning application and this is . |
| 13 | The Van Boy must have felt suitably educated , because he said nothing and silently tossed a tennis ball from one hand to the other . |
| 14 | Although the words ‘ charge ’ and ‘ mortgage ’ are often used interchangeably , there is technically an essential difference between them : ‘ a mortgage involves a conveyance of property subject to a right of redemption , whereas a charge conveys nothing and merely gives the chargee certain rights over the property as security for the loan . ’ |
| 15 | The OED staff had collected about 5,000,000 before 1900 ; the Supplement staff began from almost nothing and now have a collection of several million quotations . |
| 16 | To find a little boy who looks like me and maybe has a ring like this one . |
| 17 | ‘ I took a lot of stick from the press , ’ said the England Under-21 player , ‘ but the lads backed me and so did the manager . |
| 18 | This involves careful planning in building up contacts and nurturing them and not taking the first ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 19 | But the cook was in fine form and they seemed to be thawing a bit when I left them chattering away in Greek with Denholm sitting among them and not understanding a word they were saying . |
| 20 | In text b the problem of interpretation arises because of not knowing the referents for the expressions He , them , on that occasion and them and not having a value to fix the time expression today . |
| 21 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 22 | Lloyds Bank released the bills back to him so that he could sell them and thereby obtain the money to pay off the loan from the Bank . |
| 23 | If any Government were to bring in these pledges , they would either have to dishonour them and thereby deceive the public , or income tax payers at all levels of income would need to cough up and pay more to fund them . |
| 24 | Tiller usually co-wrote the music , always visualized the scenic designs , executed them and also supplied the stage properties , charging the Winter Gardens management for all services . |
| 25 | He suggests that there is a strong argument for decentralization to local government ( and potentially a limited hierarchy with some overlapping powers ) so long as information is available which makes it possible for voters to judge between them and thus to influence the direction of their own local government through elections . |
| 26 | The more production the better it is for them and better to sell the pits off . |
| 27 | This is unacceptable , man made them and therefore has the right to modify or discard them . |
| 28 | Glentoran had their chances — good ones — but did n't convert them and now face a battle to make the quarter finals ; Portadown 's disciplined display today should be enough for them . |
| 29 | Should one seek the causes , eliminate them and so prevent the disease ? |
| 30 | The intention is to preserve these original documents for posterity by microfilming them and then providing the microfilm for public use . |