Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mustard seed produces a shrub about eight to ten feet tall , with branches strong enough to support birds and give them shelter . |
| 2 | Make copies and circulate them amongst your friends and family , asking them to check with you before they make their choice — to avoid duplication . |
| 3 | contacting employers and encouraging them to use the ES to fill their vacancies ; |
| 4 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Mrs Phelps said , ‘ that public libraries like this allow you to borrow books and take them home ? ’ |
| 5 | Thank you award winners and thank you all for your contribution to Save The Children Fund . |
| 6 | Leading companies in the US take the whole process from beginning to end , from assistance in credit marketing , through processing applications to opening accounts and managing them , all based on a complete picture of each individual and their circumstances . |
| 7 | Arrangements can be made to consolidate debts and pay them off gradually . |
| 8 | Practitioners of such technically adept management , the new ‘ professional managers ’ of United States business schools , have recently been lambasted both for their failure to conceive strategies and to implement them as well as for their systematic choice of self-defeating strategies ( Hayes and Abernathy , 1980 ; see also Hayes and Wheelwright , 1984 ; Hayes et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | The PCAS has accused UCCA of poaching after the universities ' system approached polytechnics and told them it would delay the deadline for its 1993 handbook by two weeks to allow them to join . |
| 10 | My father , brilliant at stripping cars and putting them back together , encouraged my interest in dismantling bicycles , old radios , antique clocks . |
| 11 | They will have sorted bricks and arranged them in neat piles ( sorting and setting ) . |
| 12 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 13 | if we 're serious about that we need I think to review that very regularly , because I moved offices and discovered I was still a fire officer for a part of the office I was n't even part of , |
| 14 | Hanson does not simply buy companies and break them up . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) has some interesting ways of looking at the problem , but he did not look at the fact that there are proven ways of taking young people who have committed offences and giving them a chance to confront their criminality . |
| 16 | There are sporadic attempts to rehabilitate surfers and integrate them into society , but it never sticks : they belong on the margins , in another dimension where things are unreal , where outrageous and insane are terms of approbation , and all non-surfing humans are ridiculed as hodads . |
| 17 | Meandering roads , cul-de-sacs and dead ends are of course popular with traffic engineers but nearly always they simply increase our car dependence , lengthen walking distances and make it too difficult for buses to circulate . |
| 18 | He described plays and revues he had seen , but most of what he wrote to Hanns was about the ballet . |
| 19 | Shortly after the event , Stanley Peters said ‘ The response has been outstanding and we , as a company , welcomed the opportunity to meet families and show them the factory ’ . |
| 20 | Retailers are always on the look out for ideas to attract customers and encourage them to buy more . |
| 21 | Finish by sprinkling chippings and rolling them in . |
| 22 | The protein eats normal cells , leading to the drastic weight loss which weakens patients and prevents them fighting the disease . |
| 23 | A self-confessed eternal optimist — ‘ I always see things as a winning situation ’ — she loves challenges and admits she has a low boredom threshold . |
| 24 | checking results and analysing them as guides to future action |
| 25 | With Allen 's help she bathed it with wine from the last of the Friar 's bottles and then made a pad of cooling leaves and re-bandaged it . |
| 26 | Motivate others and make them feel confident . |
| 27 | Discussion — which develops conclusions and incorporates them into the historical pattern of evolving knowledge , perhaps offering some conjectures but avoiding speculation . |
| 28 | We expect that our median time to this decision will be less than eight weeks , and we have , in exceptional circumstances , peer reviewed papers and published them within a fortnight of submission . |
| 29 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 30 | ( Although failure is relative : the welfare services may have contained inequalities and prevented them from getting worse . ) |