Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Home Alone , a child played by Macaulay Culkin is left at home on his own and has to fend off burglars . |
| 2 | David Nicholas , Deal 's marketing director , says the company will be producing gears by the end of the year and plans to build up production to ½ million units a year within two years . |
| 3 | Under the protection of bullet-proof vests and riot gear , they used axes and sledgehammers to break down doors before seizing twenty-four prisoners and a large haul of cannabis . |
| 4 | Unlike Britain , Japan has full employment and a high level of savings which facilitates investment and helps to keep down interest rates and inflation . |
| 5 | The father goes and hunts to bring back food , which he then leaves with the mother . |
| 6 | Barrett 's ( 1984 ) analysis is rather more deterministic , arguing that education is explicitly the object of state policy , and serves to reproduce both class and gender relations . |
| 7 | Founded in 1983 , privately-held BBC has 15 employees , claims some 20,000 users of its solutions worldwide and expects to do around $2.5m this year . |
| 8 | This chapter looks at some of the components of grief and tries to explain how grief may be experienced . |
| 9 | It tends to ignore some of the more interesting theoretical issues concerned with the ways in which Chomskyan notions of Universal Grammar interact with the immediate linguistic , cognitive and contextual features that are the properties of individual children and fails to suggest how research into language acquisition is developing in other areas . |