Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last few years the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) has been active in consulting with British industry and encouraging it to be competitive in the European market . |
| 2 | That 's to say , she had firm features and smartly cut , possibly dyed hair obviously kept under regular control , and she behaved as if she had known a time when she turned every head and expected you to be aware of this too . |
| 3 | Of course there was still some opportunity for children to earn money while they were at school , and where those opportunities were taken there is evidence that parents considered this as part of the household income and expected it to be handed over ( Jamieson , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | I , I , I ordered a camera and expected it to be with us the week before we went . |
| 5 | So you did n't have a letter there and then and asked something about was it put into writing . |
| 6 | Tim leaned across to Anne and asked her to be his wife |
| 7 | At noon Sir Michael Adeane rang up and asked me to be at the Palace at 2 o'clock . |
| 8 | She mentions that Southmead Hospital is considering changing to a one year block contract as a means of empowering house officers and helping them to be recognised as an important part of the service provided . |
| 9 | Personal computers for management use is a major area of Apple usage , where planning , analysing , managing and assistance with decision evaluation have made the micro a versatile and powerful tool for managers of all descriptions , saving time and money and helping them to be far more effective in their jobs . |
| 10 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 11 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 12 | Jamie has no demons like you and defies you with being a skunk Repulsive to humanity and most of the animal kingdom , but irresistible to another skunk ! |
| 13 | The quotation is from the Roman poet Ovid ( Epistulae ex Ponto , 2.9.4718 ) and may be rendered " to have studied faithfully the liberal arts refines the character and forbids it to be uncouth " . |
| 14 | At the same time , before and beyond nature in infinity , he was creator carrying everything within himself in his thought and bringing it into being by his spoken word . |
| 15 | Confronting explicitly collectivist opponents for the first time , the Conservative party , so Fforde contends , stressed the values of the free market , turned to the classical economists to justify non-intervention , and revealed themselves to be doctrinally committed to individualism . |
| 16 | During the course of the action , they inflicted heavy casualties on their attackers and revealed themselves to be fierce and resourceful fighters — not amateurs , but professionals of a skill comparable to that of their Roman adversaries . |
| 17 | On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom . |
| 18 | She pulled back the front curtain vigorously and revealed herself to be young and jolly-looking . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , no , I was only teasing , and I really only came in to tell you that I 'm leaving tomorrow , and to thank you for being so kind , and — well , to say goodbye . |
| 20 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 21 | He admitted burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car and was jailed for 21 months yesterday by Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court . |
| 22 | He was jailed for 21 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday after admitting burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car . |
| 23 | This allows expectational effects to be incorporated in the consumption , investment and capital flow equations , providing an indication of the importance of such effects in the regulation of the economy , and allowing them to be taken into account in policy design . |
| 24 | The conflict between actively fashioning language and allowing oneself to be constructed by conventional systems is provisionally resolved by valorizing submissiveness as Christian humility , but present are the basic elements of a dilemma which is to remain with Brooke-Rose for several decades . |
| 25 | Yeah and she 's totally focused , she 's er , I think she 's got two children erm her husbands works , she 's got two children she 's brought up and developed herself to be a branch manager or assistant branch manager er she 's got a degree h now do n't listen to this Lorraine , who it said mid thirties |
| 26 | The mind puts together certain things and deems them to be of the same kind . |
| 27 | Conservationists believe the section of river has a particular geomorphological importance and want it to be allowed to meander naturally and not controlled by artificial flood defences . |
| 28 | The official receiver notifies the Chief Land Registrar , gazettes the order and causes it to be advertised in such local newspaper as he thinks fit ( r 6.46(2) ) . |
| 29 | Before long he recognised Eva 's ability and invited her to be vice president . |
| 30 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |