Example sentences of "[pron] and [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploratory tools allow learners to investigate views of a given domain which are different from theirs and so to examine consequences and conflicts . |
| 2 | ‘ He would check out everything himself and even query figures in documents prepared by top experts , ’ said one . |
| 3 | I would recite some of the lines Grandad had taught me and sometimes sing songs like ‘ Who Will Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ . |
| 4 | She began with my mother , attempted unsuccessfully to go on to me and now feels Alexandra is old enough to be the next victim . |
| 5 | Instead , he meekly gave in to them and regularly attended church . |
| 6 | In a scouting role they can be used to pin down enemy troops by getting within 8″ of them and thus preventing march moves . |
| 7 | Another doctor found that his severe disability inhibited psychiatric patients from discussing their problems , and an occupational therapist found that elderly confused patients occasionally lacked confidence in her but she managed the situation by reassuring them and immediately focusing attention back on them . |
| 8 | Another familiar failing of which you should be aware is the subconscious tendency of some interviewers to always look for someone who is like them and therefore to judge people on how far they match up . |
| 9 | There is a further plus point : at an age when the major arteries of the body are narrowing , HRT is thought to widen them and so allow blood to flow more freely . |
| 10 | The show was flexible and he could slot his best troupes in and out , thus ensuring a regular wage for them and constantly rehearsed lines for him , all ready at a moment 's notice to go to South Africa , the continent or the best halls in London . |
| 11 | In the attempt to provide good influences , officers were advised to cultivate personal contacts : to become friends with the boys , to invite them home for tea and to visit their homes ; they were to encourage their charges to have confidence in them and never to break faith ; above all , they were told , never ‘ miss an opportunity of strengthening your hold over them ’ . |
| 12 | Most people just listen to weather forecasts and either believe them or do n't believe them and certainly get cross with people like yourselves if it |
| 13 | The fundamental difference between water-clocks and mechanical clocks , in the strict sense of the term , is that the former involve a continuous process , for example , the flow of water through an orifice , whereas the latter depend on a mechanical motion that continually repeats itself and so divides time uniformly into discrete segments . |
| 14 | I can not afford the time to try everything and often refuse review loans , both of hardware and software . |
| 15 | Or yes that 's one thing because he does n't like it anymore or he might have had a a problem with selling it to someone or something and just to take revenge or something he says |
| 16 | The show is an ever-changing one and currently includes hits from Miss Saigon , Cats , Aspects of Love , Les Miserables , Me and My Girl , and many others . |
| 17 | Langley 's northern eyre was a very lucrative one and undoubtedly caused murmurings . |
| 18 | Lord Mountbatten had spent ten years tirelessly promoting the dream , talking about it all over the world , often in the highest places , inspiring everyone around him and shamelessly raising money to build more colleges . |
| 19 | It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV . |
| 20 | He offered the umbrella to him and then followed suit , both were presently arranged , expectant and a little flushed , now standing on the far side . |
| 21 | Mr Macdonald said that Wolfenden was walking through a park when police started to ‘ gallop ’ after him and then took hold of him . |
| 22 | She seemed to skate over the next part of her story , but Julia grasped the salient part , which was that one of the English officers who fought with the Italians had fallen in love with her , promised to marry her and secretly made love to her . |
| 23 | Even Mr. Arabin , the debatable ‘ hero ’ of the novel is drawn to her and nearly loses Eleanor , the ‘ heroine ’ , though in a strange quirk , which reflects human nature , Madeline does actually bring them together . |
| 24 | The shopkeeper had not realised the boy was connected with her and immediately offered congratulations . |
| 25 | You could climb in there with her and still have room to conduct Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony . |
| 26 | In fact she became a woman devoted to prayer " soo , while she with hir handes and spanne , she hadde a sauter set byfore hir and swetly seyde salmes ere to oure lorde " [ spanne : spun ; sauter : psalter ; salmes : psalms ] , and practised severe self-mortification . |
| 27 | Well you yo you moved it and just missed David . |
| 28 | I wrapped guilt around me like a thick overcoat , wallowed in it and even took shelter in it . |
| 29 | ‘ The time was right before the season started for us to part company and I 've never regretted it and neither have Norwich . |
| 30 | It is one of the inequalities of the education system that the more successful you are the longer you can remain in it and thus delay independence and entry to work . |