Example sentences of "and [vb base] [vb infin] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is called It Was Good In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good . |
| 2 | Would you like that one again , In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good now we have the dug out how food is presented erm can say so much , at least it does to me and , so that , so that the beginning of this poem became from er the food , piece of food held in the hand of the mayor in this picture . |
| 3 | I have gradually changed my life style and I can not stress enough the relief of being able to walk , run and do exercise without pain . |
| 4 | Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress . |
| 5 | If this method also fails ( and do bear in mind that no technique can be guaranteed to work for all children ) then try response-cost or time-out ( chapter 7 ) . |
| 6 | And do bear in mind that if you do n't hit it 100 per cent , the result is likely to be far better than a less than perfect pitch . |
| 7 | Erm this can only exasasberate er an already difficult situation chairman , I do wonder whether the , the people that British Rail are trying to attract to use the service and , and do bear in mind that this County Council recently voted ten thousand pounds in subsidies er to er towards British Rail to enable people to travel on a Sunday . |
| 8 | ‘ That reference to judges ; you were n't thinking I might drag you into court and do battle over Thomas ? ’ |
| 9 | Returning to my brief of animal intelligence , animals can and do act as members of a group against other conspecific groups . |
| 10 | There is a " down side " to this aspect of a career in advertising for the long hours can and do interfere with attempts to strike a balance between work and play , career and home . |
| 11 | Although , for some , the tragedies of one generation will be repeated in the next , people can and do learn from experience . |
| 12 | A personal recommendation is best when you are looking for a trainer , but try your local gym , health club or leisure centre and do ask about qualifications . |
| 13 | Very serious consequences can and do follow from people or organisations being indifferent to the results of their actions . |
| 14 | Yes , Chair , I , I mean I support the criteria that 's been laid out in five two there , I think it 's very important that we do actually , important that we do actually highlight the issue of low pay , and where it 's occurring , and in , in some way that then prevents companies , the , the unscrupulous type of companies that would come in to exploit that , from actually doing it , since most people would then be aware it , and I think that the last speaker 's just suggested that it 's an extremely cheap way of obtaining masses of information about Shropshire 's erm , earnings levels , and I think that 's very important that we are , and do come to grips with that , and clearly could n't afford officer time to be spent on , on merely collating that all the time . |
| 15 | Of course the bigger clients are getting the message and do keep in touch but with the rest it 's proving hard work teasing out the issues and reassuring there 's value in it for them . |