Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This evidence of strength used by a small country for peaceful purposes and to promote its own self-sufficiency would , he warned , undermine the power of " imperialism " and lay Libya open to attack , especially by the United States . |
| 2 | It meant the ability to educate and supervise his own children rather than be driven to place them in the mill , and to preserve a customary life-style . |
| 3 | When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy . |
| 4 | Our ‘ post-heroic leader ’ will allow others to take responsibility , develop their own skills , solve their own problems and develop their own goals . |
| 5 | However , anglers regularly take home large quantities of fish , selling it locally , storing it in freezers and eating it several times a week . |
| 6 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 7 | They can write at home , they can write after school , they can read it to each other and I think this is tremendous benefit where they 're open with each other too and can discuss round the table and evaluate their own work . |
| 8 | He played with Louis Armstrong 's All Stars at the end of the 50s and led his own band at Eddie Condon 's in New York in the mid-60s . |
| 9 | He had forgotten this unofficial war and damned his own foolhardiness at not taking the matter into account . |
| 10 | They are organised to allow the users choice over what to see , in the correct time sequence , and to post their own contributions . |
| 11 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 12 | You can buy an off-the-peg timber frame house or discover how to design and build your own house of stone . |
| 13 | Then Greta Ross took my mother into a room and asked her more questions . |
| 14 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 15 | This book was the result of a suggestion by the BBC that S. P. B. Mais describe seventeen haphazard excursions for the purpose of stimulating in listeners a desire to explore and rediscover their own island . |
| 16 | Funnily enough , I felt better after a couple of pints at a pub in Maida Vale ; you know , the trendy one among Guardian readers which has the really stupid long name and brews its own beer in the cellar . |
| 17 | But my In Love body forgets about food and sleep and produces its own adrenalin to keep me flying through every hour . |
| 18 | The Canning Shirt Company at the Albert Dock puts transfers and lettering on T-shirts and produces its own designs , including Liverpool logos , which go down a bomb with the tourists . |
| 19 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 20 | Both terms are allowed to be used on the label by all Champagne manufacturers , although in general only growers who make and sell their own Champagne take advantage of this . |
| 21 | The Indian Patents Act of 1970 prohibits patenting of life forms and , the farmers argue , protects their traditional rights to produce , modify and sell their own seeds . |
| 22 | Or use fruit to make instant purées for fools and snows and to flavour your own yogurt . |
| 23 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 24 | Even so , a perfectly-sighted Ted can suffer with streaming eyes for several reasons during the fall , so best play safe and make him some goggles from a pop bottle , as shown opposite . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's heat-stroke — Rosette , you 'd better get her a long cool drink , go and make her some lemonade . ’ |
| 26 | Some adults make the choice to live on their own after they have tried various shared living arrangements and discovered that they prefer to be in control of their own life and make their own rules . |
| 27 | Schools participating in the scheme have a set quota of assisted places , and make their own selection of the pupils to be admitted . |
| 28 | But my educated guess is that guitarists want to get an idea of the feel of something , receive an impression of it from another player , then go and try the thing and make their own decision . |
| 29 | The van was impounded and SL2 had to hire a car on their Visa card and make their own way to the rave — which had been cancelled ! |
| 30 | Mr Smith understood there was a need to send money home to most mothers but reasoned if the Girls were capable of earning above average wages , they should be treated like adults and make their own decisions about their finances . |