Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [v-ing] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a tarnished brass knocker showing a pixie cobbling shoes and declaring itself to be a present from Cornwall . |
| 2 | He admitted burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car and was jailed for 21 months yesterday by Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court . |
| 3 | He was jailed for 21 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday after admitting burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car . |
| 4 | We finished on our knees , giving God our fears and committing ourselves to His battle for Rhodesia . |
| 5 | Digital Equipment Corp executives remark that the Open Software Foundation better make some progress in the coming months stitching up the wounds of the old Unix wars and accommodating itself to new alliances or else it 's going to have a lot of trouble getting funding from its sponsors next year . |
| 6 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 7 | I mean the trouble with group selectionistic thinking is you , you completely discount the costs that some people pay for the benefits of others and so oh well , you know everybody benefits from mothers erm having children and sacrificing themselves to their offspring . |