Example sentences of "and [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raoul dabbed at his nose with the back of his hand , and everyone could see the resulting scarlet streak . |
| 2 | The therapist and the group jointly answered those irrational statements , and everyone could see the funny side of the bizarre nature of her final image . |
| 3 | Every person who is 18 or over will be sent their own Poll Tax bill and everyone will have the right to pay in 10 monthly instalments . |
| 4 | On examination , the car had been cut badly and now instead of a neat hole which the teeth of the cog could grab , the hole was broken and nothing would make the machine accept this card . |
| 5 | There 's a listening service via the telephone to let parents eat with peace of mind , and nothing could surpass the service in the dining room . |
| 6 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
| 7 | Rose had begun to sob gently , not at all like her usual wild self , and someone must tell the poor mother downstairs that she had a grandson , but not a daughter . |
| 8 | The district council said there was no budget to meet the £900 annual charge for floodlighting the memorials , and someone must accept the cost . |
| 9 | It was a terrible world where people could die and nobody would claim the remains . |
| 10 | I mean , you are practically forced into a close encounter , and nobody could miss the electricity between the two of you . |
| 11 | Orders came to the guardroom to stand to ; priority telegrams recalled those on leave ; station defences were considerably strengthened ; living-out people were hastily brought back , and nobody could leave the camp . |
| 12 | According to table 6.2 , nearly a third of the words are still uniquely identifiable , and one would expect the number to be considerably greater under a mid-class representation . |
| 13 | It meant that all one had to do was to go on contacting enough people and one would make the necessary sales . |
| 14 | However , since 1983/84 local government expenditure has fallen slightly as a proportion of GNP and one would question the usefulness of the Retail Price Index as a measure of inflation within local government . |
| 15 | There are as many of these sorts of guides as literature guides , and one may pose the question more acutely , why are so many of the publications virtually the same ( even in one library there might be virtually the same guide on bibliographical references ) ? |
| 16 | All patients with MEN 1 who had fundic carcinoid tumours had hyperparathyroidism and one may question the role played by humoral factors such as serum calcium or parathormone , or both . |
| 17 | Like the values for Young 's modulus or stiffness , the figures vary a great deal between different substances , but then , so do the strengths of the chemical bonds within them and one might expect the engineering strengths to be proportional to the strengths of the chemical bonds . |
| 18 | The proportion of any additional income that is saved ( the marginal propensity to save ) will tend to vary according to the tastes and preferences of the individual , and one might expect the proportion that is saved to increase as income increases . |
| 19 | In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | The graph line will at first rise steeply but then start to level off , and one can compute the likely final level and hence the number of dies . |
| 21 | One of you , one of you can lick the spoon and one can lick the bowl , plate |
| 22 | One 's overall sense of The Possessed absolutely refuses to confirm any such duality , and one can pay the novel no simpler or fuller tribute than by saying so . |
| 23 | If one can demonstrate clear relationships between specific patterns of impairment and specific models of normal processing , then , one can use the patterns of impairment as evidence for or against the models , and one can use the models to explain how the patterns of impairment come about — why patients with language disorders behave in certain ways and not in other ways . |
| 24 | Lear may have been volatile and moody — and one can imagine the difficulty Gould faced if he criticised a drawing — but he was capable of great emotional generosity and open-heartedness . |
| 25 | The largest hole , immediately alongside the road , admits a small stream and one can hear the sound of subterranean waters but , unusually , there are no underground passages connecting the series . |
| 26 | One can recognize here , with Lévi-Strauss ( 1968 ) , the importance of ambiguous mediators in relating the opposites within one 's cultural universe and one can add the Apprentice Boys to Lévi-Strauss 's shortlist of tricksters and twins in this role . |
| 27 | Many , many herbs are first-class in containers like these , and one can have the pleasure of a spring display , to be replaced by summer-flowering fragrant herbs , all with a permanent backbone of evergreens such as lavender , sweet bay , cotton lavender , or rosemary . |
| 28 | The decision involved the total reduction of this large hilly area , and one can understand the arguments and counter arguments among Nero and his advisers ; was Britain worth yet further military effort in the face of growing hostility and bitterness ? |
| 29 | Even in Clare 's own country , the railway has been absorbed into the landscape , and one can enjoy the consequent pleasure of trundling through Rutland in a stopping-train on a fine summer morning : the barley fields shaking in the wind , the slow sedgy streams with their willows shading meditative cattle , the elegant limestone spires across the meadows , the early Victorian stations built of the sheep-grey Ketton stone and still unaltered , the warm brown roofs of the villages half buried in the trees , and the summer light flashing everywhere . |
| 30 | Then the total process would become cheaper and one can see the advantages to management in fragmenting the task . |