Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If what we look like can influence how we feel about ourselves and influence other people 's attitudes , then let us cash in on it by taking an interest in appearance . |
| 2 | This was one game in which Frank Strandli had a chance to prove himself and salvage some points when we really needed them but he did n't deliver . |
| 3 | A child who has been stretched emotionally and imaginatively in fashioning a pot from a lump of clay or weaving upon a simple loom will come , through the process of doing , to learn much about himself and gain some understanding of the pain , pleasure and struggle which underpin craftsmanship . |
| 4 | And a killjoy is one that do n't enjoy himself and let other people |
| 5 | It 's just a cynical publicity campaign to promote himself and sell more copies of the video . |
| 6 | For example , he needs to be able to identify himself and give personal facts about himself . |
| 7 | Those Sardinians who had any money at all were able to buy up land for practically nothing and get rich pasture for their sheep . |
| 8 | Could you advise me and recommend any books that might help me . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you want to come back to Florence with me and get some sleep ? ’ |
| 10 | Tell you the truth , I 'm sick to death of the lot of it , but I ca n't think of anything to do with it that wo n't have my old man haunting me and have other people 's feelings hurt . |
| 11 | ‘ After I went to immigration ’ , recalls Rita , ‘ and I told them I was separated because my husband abused me , I thought they would look down on me and have more sympathy , and see what they can do . |
| 12 | Well , there 's never been a man to stand against me and see another day ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ However , these animals are here and we must look after them and make full use of them to bring the attention of people in Northern Ireland to the plight of thousands of other , much less fortunate , chimpanzees . ’ |
| 14 | well look at some of the apples you were getting round about Christmas , they had brought them in , they had polished them and put that spray on to make them look shiny |
| 15 | In its most heroic and grandiose form , it proposed no less than this : that working people should take over the industries which employed them and organise those industries into nationwide co-operatives , the whole to be in the charge of one , all-inclusive trade union . |
| 16 | Those who , like Ehrenreich , acknowledge the utility of medical science , want to decontaminate its practice by changing the class , sex and racial composition of medical personnel and promoting a cultural revolution in medical institutions to " purify " them and instil new values . |
| 17 | In all cases , the experiences will be more powerful if they relate directly to children 's current theories , and offer them the opportunity to test them and consider alternative accounts . |
| 18 | Sheffield Wednesday head a list of four clubs who can overtake them and snatch second place . |
| 19 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 20 | Mothers told their children to behave or Eric Cauldhame would get them and do horrible things to them with worms and maggots . |
| 21 | An officer on foot will often spend a whole shift without doing any police work , and without talking to anyone except to greet them and provide simple information … |
| 22 | The good adviser will value schools ' own programmes , and be willing to participate in them and provide additional help , but he will also try to stimulate other opportunities of cooperation between schools , wide-ranging discussion in courses and occasional meetings , and curriculum development planning meetings at teachers ' centres and colleges and departments of education . |
| 23 | THE boyfriend of the Teesside woman shot during a visit to the United States has said the couple want to put the incident behind them and lead normal lives . |
| 24 | In a speech to Hungary 's National Assembly , Yeltsin expressed the hope that the two countries could put their mutual bitter past behind them and relaunch bilateral relations on a fresh sheet . |
| 25 | Banks thus compete against each other for them and negotiate individual terms with the firm to suit the firm 's particular requirements . |
| 26 | She had been tempted to banish them and forbid all visits , but they would n't be intimidated . |
| 27 | For larger tours , bands need a tour accountant to travel with them and record all transactions as they are made . |
| 28 | Arrange the shells on an oiled baking tray , season them and brush each shell lightly with a little oil — use no more than 1 tablespoon in all . |
| 29 | All I had to do was to train chicks on either methylanthranilate or water and hand them over to Roger , who would disappear into the neurophysiology lab with them and emerge many hours later with reams of paper which he would begin to analyse . |
| 30 | The rational man may contemplate them and give more weight to the former , and more still perhaps to ‘ Art should be a part of ordinary life ’ , but these are not the sort of principles which he will profess to have interrelated in a deductive system . |