Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What countless new churches have done is to take these helpful headings and develop what goes on under each one in a way that is flexible . |
| 2 | Her role was to distract the holy Thérèse , who sat reading the local newspaper inside the pigsty , and make her look up . |
| 3 | Oh well I think I 'll ju I 'll just play with the tab and make it pop in and out a few times |
| 4 | Through the mists of agony and fear he looked back at the dragon . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom . |
| 7 | The thing here was that all the flowers were blue — delphiniums and cornflowers and forget me nots round a sundial in the middle of a smooth green velvet lawn . |
| 8 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , ’ Donaldson told him outside , ‘ I 'm not being deliberately awkward , but you ca n't appear from nowhere and expect me to go along with you without an explanation . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ you come in ere half pissed once a month , usually around midnight , and expect me to jump around for you , now you 're bringing you mates as well . ’ |
| 11 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the darkness and wet it lived up to its evil reputation . |
| 14 | We not only provide practice in analysing experiences , but give students a glimpse of a more humane society and urge them to push back the boundaries that inhibit them . ’ |
| 15 | It sounds crazy to think some Jap mother might see a diaper floating down out of the sky lit up by flares and fires and grab it to put on her crying baby . |
| 16 | With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot . |
| 17 | Just keep going and hope something turns up . |
| 18 | You simply open your mouth and hope something comes out and you can only do that if you 're relaxed . |
| 19 | ‘ I wish you luck with your inquiries and hope you find out who did it . ’ |
| 20 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 21 | For example , the mother of a five-year-old who always cries when bedtime comes may give in every so often and let him stay up late because she can not bear to see tears . |
| 22 | They simply opened the prison gates and let him walk out . |
| 23 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 24 | It is not possible to take separate sectors of administration , appoint an official to be in charge , give him a budget and let him get on with it , because if anything is raised in the press or in the House about this sector , there must be an immediate channel of communications to and instructions from the top . |
| 25 | Devlin kept his eyes closed and let him get on with it . |
| 26 | Best to ignore him and let him come around in his own time . |
| 27 | And let him find out three by four same as four by three . |
| 28 | Sometimes he had to admit , he wished they would just leave him alone and let him live out this petty , pointless . |
| 29 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But I 've got this attitude that if you 're going to show guitarists off in their best light , you do n't just put them on stage and let them weedle around all night . |