Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith has a lot of talent and I think David used to go to him and Keith would rearrange the songs and make them sound good with his bass lines . |
| 2 | They should get off their backsides and let us see what they intend to do about it . |
| 3 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 4 | Some players find Goblins hard to use because they imagine they are fighters and commit them to combat as if they were Orcs . |
| 5 | This is because as Dickens wrote his novels as weekly instalments he had to put enough into each instalment whether it be a couple of chapters or many , enough to captivate his readers and cause them to wait with eagerness for the next instalment . |
| 6 | Held against his heart , feeling the steady beat beneath her cheek , she closed her eyes and let it wash over her in soothing waves . |
| 7 | It was then that the lump in her throat would break and spill the tears from her eyes and cause her to make choking sounds which she did not try to prevent , knowing they would not penetrate Mrs Aggie 's deep snoring . |
| 8 | He would just look at her with those piercing eyes and make her feel as vulnerable as she was beginning to realise she was . |
| 9 | Our scheme aims to promote your strengths and help you to become confident in the use of Mathematics in everyday life . |
| 10 | Critics wrote of the leitmotif for Malvolio that it ‘ captured the colour mus-tard ’ , and that Guérigny was ‘ positively acrobatic in his ability to turn little themes on their heads and send them spinning out of hearing ’ . |
| 11 | Supporters of sacked workers have rejected accusations of ‘ rent-a-mob ’ tactics and say they plan to turn up in force again . |
| 12 | He would point his tape recorder at subjects and invite them to ruminate and , hopefully , fulminate . |
| 13 | I set to work with my little bag of magic potions and do you know what I discovered ? ’ |
| 14 | Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt . |
| 15 | Get into shape for your honeymoon with the minimum of effort ’ A BaByliss BodyToner Plus will tone up hips and thighs and have you looking firm and trim on the beach . |
| 16 | The most obvious possibility is to be able to call up a video window on the screen which can deliver a helpline operator 's face and words and enable you to resolve your problem . |
| 17 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 18 | Put such facts as we have before the Sheriff and the Merchant Venturers and let them sort it out . ’ |
| 19 | So , whenever you have some spare cash to hand , pay it into Premier Savings and watch it grow . |
| 20 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 21 | We shrugged our shoulders and let it go . |
| 22 | Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things . |
| 23 | She came to the last button and , plucking up all her courage , slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor . |
| 24 | An outbreak of spots may leave a brown discoloration on the skin which can last for several months and leave it looking mottled . |
| 25 | Their friends in the town halls keep people out of homes and use them to trade and to get cheap votes . |
| 26 | You have made 'em red , you have made 'em redundant and you in , in you have and I hope you 've had nobody redundant because I 've I 'd be pleased to go out to those homes and say them come back and I would be pleased to go up to and say you 've got your figures wrong because you 're saying that nobody 's made redundant ooh well I I 'm so pleased . |
| 27 | ‘ You can live quite cheaply in Miami , so once you 're out there on one job , you can contact other UK clients and get them to send the gear over and keep you busy for a few weeks . |
| 28 | According to Richard Baxter , for example , it led to the arrogance of ‘ idle boys who tear out all the hard leaves of their books and say they have learned all when they have learned the rest ’ . |
| 29 | Somebody had gone to considerable trouble and expense to acquire the books and have them hollowed out , then delivered to the car hire people just before our plane arrived . |
| 30 | I do n't want to stand in the doorway and shake hands but it 's a great feeling to go into one of the restaurants and realise they do n't belong to the GrandMet or Imperial , but they are mine ! ’ |