Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner they had got lost , because Betty had fallen asleep and failed to note the few signposts and correlate them with the route on the map . |
| 2 | Drawing on North American experience , the Commission concluded that ‘ poor management was an important contributory factor to New York 's problems ’ , and sought to apply the same lessons here ( p. 2 ) . |
| 3 | The villain who was the occasion of my ruin and disgrace , and has imparted the self-same treatment on many others of my sex , is considered by the world as a man of unspotted honour . |
| 4 | This is the 11th edition of the book first published in 1953 and has retained the same structure as the original . |
| 5 | He returns to the same circumstances as before , to associate with the same peer group , and starts behaving the same way as before . |
| 6 | The conceptual requirements are to be clear and exact in our use of these and subsidiary terms , and to confront and seek to resolve the many and often contentious value issues which each of them raises . |
| 7 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 8 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 10 | The girl threw caution to the wind and tried to make the most of every minute via sex , drink , numerous abortions , and late-night revels . |
| 11 | Cleveland police have studied the Derby operation and hope to use the same type of scheme . |
| 12 | She grew up in the African bush , and came to love the many wild animals as well as the domestic animals on her father 's farm . |
| 13 | He got out and helped her from her seat , and turned to do the same for Dana . |
| 14 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 15 | A similar register of all villages and other groups of buildings should be compiled and examined using the same criteria , with the same objective . |
| 16 | It is the shortening of a passage for general consumption , and aims to maintain the same information content , but to express it more economically . |
| 17 | He might like the proposal you have in mind , and decide to do the same on his property . |
| 18 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 19 | I left school before my 14th birthday ( which could happen in Scotland ) and started work the same day in the employ of a grocer and wine merchant . |
| 20 | She resisted all temptations to give in to homesickness : she had been given the choice between staying at home and starting a new life , and having chosen the latter she was determined to enjoy every waking minute to the full . |
| 21 | Think positively and try to make the most of your appearance so that you feel your absolute best all day . |
| 22 | The peasant then walks past the corpse for a second time and emerges to ask the same question . |
| 23 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
| 24 | When Tom returned , he too would clear his land and start planting the same crops — to begin with . |
| 25 | In 1938 he read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and appeared to suffer the same ‘ road to Damascus ’ transformation of personality which afflicted Arnold Leese on reading that document . |
| 26 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 27 | And had followed the same pattern afterwards . |
| 28 | On the other hand : she 'd fortunately made the right career choice and been encouraged by school and family at an early age , got a qualification ( chartered accountancy ) that proved a useful passport , and had had the same supportive bosses any man would expect to get . |
| 29 | They believed the existence of a course would increase local property values and help sell the many building plots on the market during the early years of this century . |
| 30 | This was a glorious end to the season for Gregarians , revelling in the April sunshine and determined to make the most of their final appearance . |