Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | write to manufacturers informing them of your choice and encouraging them to sell goods packaged in recyclable materials |
| 2 | The way to change the situation is by harnessing staff expertise and encouraging them to become part of the process of customer service . ’ |
| 3 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 4 | Rich is personal expression and influence we mix pigment not only in response to the subject , but through our mood at the time of painting . |
| 5 | During the 23-minute chat he called her by her pet name ‘ Squidgy ’ , told her he loved her and asked her to blow kisses down the phone to him . |
| 6 | ‘ Much to my surprise and delight , sure enough in ‘ 84 he contacted me and asked me to take part in the Mozart ‘ Coronation ’ Mass to be performed in front of the Pope the following year . |
| 7 | At last he reached me and asked me to demonstrate el thwing . |
| 8 | The man beckoned to me as I stood around vaguely , and asked me to fetch cognac for him , vodka with ice for his wife and … what for Nell ? |
| 9 | On the sixth day of rehearsal , Burge decided that Dustin would never ‘ find ’ the role , and asked him to make way for another actor . |
| 10 | He called Marshall and asked him to send Maureen to see him immediately . |
| 11 | ‘ We interviewed five design outfits and asked them to submit plans . |
| 12 | Towards noon on 5th October , Howard 's treaty Nez Perce scouts Captain John and Old George carried a white flag to the fugitives ' lines and asked them to make peace . |
| 13 | One of the field commanders , Edgar Chamorro , continually nagged by Fernandez to get into Nicaragua and fight , at last decided to venture 30 metres inside to attack a border post ; heavy fire drove him back and , retreating to a pay phone , he called the CIA in Langley , Virginia and asked them to send mortars . |
| 14 | On the one hand ( see page 31 ) reasoning with children , and helping them recognize others ' feelings , facilitates the development of conscience and resistance to temptation . |
| 15 | And the needs of people with learning difficulties and their carers , above all , can not be defined and prescribed independently of the process of encouraging and helping them to welcome opportunities and change . |
| 16 | ‘ The practical help in developing my business plan was invaluable in focusing my idea and helping me obtain LEDU assistance ’ . |
| 17 | He wrote again , a careful , stilted letter , expressing gratitude for the help he had received and suggesting they shook hands and called it a day . |
| 18 | Now Saint Marcus had to put all that lot together to make it look right and make it make sense , with hindsight , bringing all the important pieces together . |
| 19 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 20 | Typically a dybbuk was not satisfied with life beyond the grave and would return to take possession of another person , changing their character and using them to wreak havoc . |
| 21 | Taking funds out of deposit accounts and using them to repay mortgages will be particularly attractive for high earners who no longer receive mortgage interest relief at the upper rate — thanks to Mr Lamont — and who might suffer up to 50 p.c. deductions on savings ' earnings . |
| 22 | And there would seem to be an easy , gradual continuum between using the voice to make echoes and using it to mimic echoes . |
| 23 | The idea of recovering waste heat from air or water , and using it to heat buildings cheaply , is very attractive . |
| 24 | Other ideas include mixing straw with sewage to make compost , which is being tried out at sewage works near Oxford and using it to make paper , which it was widely used for until the 40s . |
| 25 | Did you try and stop them , did you try and make them see reason ? |
| 26 | Fold the sides into the pleats and bring them to lay side by side along the top edge of the swag , pinning and handstitching them securely in position , as previously planned . |
| 27 | A few months later the Oxfordshire Education Committee responded to 10/65 by appointing me as co-ordinator for the Banbury reorganization , and commissioned me to submit plans : the noisy sewage pump had done its work . |
| 28 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 29 | Until she was eighteen , her father had educated her himself ; he had dressed her in navy serge and black stockings and made her read John Stuart Mill for an hour every evening . |
| 30 | He punched her on the head and made her do pull-ups against a door frame . |