Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 2 | Now here was this gifted sister , who had so many opportunities that he had been denied , apparently threatening to throw them all down the drain , and bury herself in some backwater in Africa . |
| 3 | I welcome what the Home Secretary said about Le Pen 's visit to Britain , but will he go a little further and dissociate himself from those of his colleagues who are seeking to meet that man ? |
| 4 | John also tells the mystic that , if he wants to approach God , he must cast aside every single scrap of knowledge he owns and divest himself of all his own ideas and opinions : |
| 5 | But she could n't ever see me , though I think at first she knew I was around , so now I mostly stay where I am and amuse myself with some of the other kids who are here too . |
| 6 | He was indeed fortunate in his local friends who recognised his ‘ propensity to Botanicks ’ ( Benjamin Franklin , Pennsylvania Gazette , 1742 ) , encouraged expeditions and subscribed ‘ to induce him and enable him wholly to spend his time and exert himself on these employments ’ . |
| 7 | If teachers believe that the National Curriculum can widen curriculum opportunities for all , and commit themselves to this cause , then it may turn out to be so . |
| 8 | But if you were looking at their egos as well , er their whole personality had its defence disrupted , then of course , you may be able to see a bit more , because you are now looking at areas which are co both conscious and manifest themselves in all kinds of different ways . |
| 9 | ’ It might be worth it ’ she yelled , and fling herself into another flouncing departure for her cabin . |
| 10 | You walk towards it , and enter the passageway — and find yourself in another crystalline cavern , dazzling in its magnificence . |
| 11 | ‘ Such persons commonly live in a dream world , and believe themselves in all they say . |
| 12 | ‘ We will review the matter at that stage ’ he said , adding that ‘ henceforth Mr O'Reilly will conduct his business within the rules and regulations and acquaint himself with these regulations . ’ |
| 13 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 14 | So not everyone could become a cardholder and admit himself to another potential source of overindebtedness . |
| 15 | Hilton tells him to wait patiently in the darkness and acclimatise himself to this new existence , stripped of all the things that had made life worthwhile before . |
| 16 | Obviously individuals may begin litigation on their own account and represent themselves in those proceedings , but otherwise only solicitors and barristers have the right to act as advocates in courts and only barristers in the higher courts , other than on formal or unopposed business . |