Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with a massive majority in the House of Commons and racked by their own internal problems , for much of the decade the opposition parties had a distinctly toothless appearance . |
| 2 | All matters concerning Colin Olivier Louis Tuck were dealt with in that small group of offices behind their own perimeter fence and guarded by their own troops . |
| 3 | Barnett looked away quickly and gazed at his own pale face again . |
| 4 | The British murmur ‘ You must come and stay with us some time , ’ and when they part they say ‘ Let's keep in touch ’ and they certainly do n't mean it , but it greases the wheels of intercourse . |
| 5 | She flashed him a brief and insincere smile , her eyes puffy and filled with her own worries . |
| 6 | His latest series is probably his best yet and will make many people stop and think about their own lives and relationships . |
| 7 | According to his pupil , Norman Swindin [ q.v. ] , he was inclined to be irascible at times but had a dry sense of humour and the ability to recognize and laugh at his own mistakes . |
| 8 | to be run over and crushed by their own caissons in the dark . |
| 9 | Out of the gloom of that stone vault things glowed and twinkled with their own wondrous light . |
| 10 | They shared a doughnut and bickered over which half was smallest . |
| 11 | Falstaff is forcibly returned to prose , ‘ knapp 'd o'th'coxcomb ’ by verse , and subsides to his own level : ‘ Master Shallow , I owe you a thousand pound ’ . |
| 12 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 13 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 14 | ‘ Every man caught in night moves towards the light ’ — this line of Victor Hugo 's is one that Julian Green has both loved and realised in his own life . |
| 15 | Certainly Americans and Australians could play sport for more of the year but they did so in a more positive , meritocratic context where success was admired and recognized for its own sake . |
| 16 | It appeared to roll forward and unfold under its own natural momentum , to reach its clearly defined objectives . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the ambiguities remain and contribute to the uncertainty with which the CMHT members go about and account for their own work . |
| 18 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 19 | Now , though , with this Lucifer 's touch on her body , his lips hungry and demanding on her own , she lost her will to fight , lost sight of all the reasons that had kept her aloof and apart from the crowd . |
| 20 | The all-woman crew were bringing the launch in , leaping with fearless agility to the jetty and tying up efficiently , as though they had been born on boats and lived on them all their life . |
| 21 | When I first left home and lived on my own , I gorged myself on an endless round of late night parties and visits to newly-found friends which lasted until the early hours of the morning . |
| 22 | Mr Gatenby 's addiction had started with one phone call because , he said , he was unsettled , did not mix easily and lived on his own . |
| 23 | ‘ Go back to Eastlake and concentrate on your own affairs . |
| 24 | The viewer can lay aside , in his fantasy relation to this woman , the difficult , complex emotions he will experience in any actual relationship with a real woman , and concentrate upon his own desire . |
| 25 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 26 | Where arbitrators have behaved more like experts and relied on their own expertise , their awards have been set aside . |
| 27 | Those who were nervous and struggling with their own feelings did not want to expose their gayness in the way that I had done . |
| 28 | The activities of the conceptual phase are not just acted on and completed on their own before any other phase is considered . |
| 29 | they provide an opportunity for students to explain their intentions and values and to comment on their own performance , thus contributing to the collaborative nature of the assessment procedure . |
| 30 | He had no idea that Finch was trying to get him to stop being an accompanist and to work on his own . |