Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To foster in pupils a love of literature , to encourage their awareness of its unique relationship to human experience and to promote in them a sense of excitement in the power and potential of language can be one of the greatest joys of the English teacher . |
| 2 | My senior staff have already addressed a meeting of Citizens Advice representatives in Edinburgh and explained to them the Council Tax legislation . |
| 3 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 4 | First , you time the length of the material to be trimmed at the beginning of the shot , and subtract from it the amount of the backspace ; this shorter length is then the point at which you set the tape early for the edit-in . |
| 5 | Such a practice cuts at the foundation of Aristoteleian notions of male and female difference and constitutes in itself the act of revolt — though the challenge it issues is more veiled than the more overt social questions asked by Hunter or Kelly . |
| 6 | Pointing to the chair opposite , she told the girl , ‘ Come and sit with me a while , Peggy . |
| 7 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 8 | It is fortunately in the hands of such a man as Captain Vidal , R.N. , who has steadily devoted himself , during a long period of ill-health , to complete this unpopular work , and to connect with it a minute examination of the Canary Islands . ’ |
| 9 | When early Christians adopted the pagan altar they did so to represent the table of the Last Supper and placed upon it a white cloth symbolic of the Shroud . |
| 10 | Sport ; , I will argue , can have a most stimulating , uplifting impact on the participant and instil in him a fresh thirst for achievement in sporting and other circles . |
| 11 | As the child 's mental processes become more complex , it becomes increasingly able to absorb and construct for itself the complexities of the external world . |
| 12 | There is only what from our side is neither predictable nor controllable — the coming of the Word from beyond which opens and displays to us the overwhelming advent of God as he makes himself known in the ‘ eternal moment ’ . |
| 13 | Each child was given a present and to go with it a box of sweets . |
| 14 | and er I would like to make an appointment to come and see you er again next week to talk over this mortgage and to go into it a bit more |
| 15 | It gave me a few minutes to stop and think about what the hell I was doing . |
| 16 | All the Brownies were invited to go home and think about what the Pack could do for the fete and bring their ideas and suggestions along to the next Pack Meeting . |
| 17 | ‘ You have my sympathy , admiration and best wishes , ’ said the Count , and parted from him a minute later . |
| 18 | He was a quiet , wise , friendly man who ran his hall with a minimum of rules and regulations , treating undergraduates as adults and impressing on them the need for courtesy and consideration in their dealings with one another , and with the domestic staff . |
| 19 | Her first move was to go round to the various teachers who taught the senior class and borrow from them a number of text-books , books on algebra , geometry , French , English Literature and the like . |
| 20 | In his heart the boy Jaq vowed vengeance against daemons and against psykers who were conduits for daemons for stealing his parents from him and bestowing upon him the honour of being raised by missionaries . |
| 21 | It had happened again while he was screwing his resolution to go and see a certain man in London and make to him an excessively embarrassing confession which justice demanded . |
| 22 | Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar . |
| 23 | Contracts could be with a specialist unit outside the area , which would be able to keep its facility going by attracting patients needing that care and bringing with them the cash to pay for their operation . |
| 24 | The capricious blaze , devouring the easiest fuel , hissed between them and drove them apart , and Isambard came leaping through it , grinning like a demon and bringing with him a shower of sparks and the smoky , scorching odour of hell . |
| 25 | It collapsed like a punctured airbag , except that what came forth was not air but rank , fetid water , vomiting out in a copious stream and bringing with it a stench that sent them both staggering back several paces . |
| 26 | The kiss was a fierce , stormy possession , making her head swim and bringing with it the realisation that it would take no effort at all to become seriously attracted to this man ! |
| 27 | You seem to reinhabit a popular form , the family album , and bring to it a militant anarchy it would n't appear to possess . |
| 28 | It has a seemingly simple and limited behavioural repertoire , including various forms of learning , while its relatively easily mapped central nervous system contains only a small number of cells — no more than 20,000 neurons in all , arranged in a system of distributed ganglia and including amongst them a population of very large cells which can be recognized easily and reproducibly from animal to animal . |
| 29 | Glen volunteered to supervise the distribution of his work in Persia , and to circulate with it a new edition of the Persian translation of the New Testament by Henry Martyn [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | They had n't got no kids , yelling and nagging at you the minute you get in , crawling all over you in the night because they 're cutting their bloody teeth . |