Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cooking and eating it is a grand undertaking . |
| 2 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 3 | Seeing birds close up and handling them was a vital part of my education . |
| 4 | In his hands she saw something glint and realised it was a knife . |
| 5 | She caught a glimpse of colour — dark red — and realised it was a woman 's dress . |
| 6 | First we thought something fell , but then 15 minutes later we came out and saw the crowds and police and realised it was a bomb . ’ |
| 7 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 8 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 9 | He began trying on his mother 's clothing when he was eight and realised he was a transexual when he was 17 . |
| 10 | In the case of both /Ε/; and /a/ it is the persons for whom the vowel has less significance as a network marker who seem to be leading the linguistic change . |
| 11 | Being a true professional , she flashed a smile — as Fred hung on for dear life — and admitted it was a pretty paw show . |
| 12 | Manipulation of ‘ needs ’ by both creating them and satisfying them is the process by which social control is effected . |
| 13 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 14 | She bought herself a ring and pretended she was a widow . ’ |
| 15 | You 've got to get on and deal with the problem and forget it 's a crisis . |
| 16 | She said the girl discussed with her mother what she would do if something similar happened to her , before clamming up and denying she was a victim . |
| 17 | Kenny Logan won his first cap and demonstrated he is a player for the future . |
| 18 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 19 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 20 | Erm , we also , again I mean , as you say , we always look at ourselves and say we 're the best team in the company . |
| 21 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 22 | You can sell a house by saying it 's near to the station , or the shops : or you can be really eccentric and say it 's a life giving spa centre with its own magic water source . |
| 23 | I did n't think it was possible for somebody to stand in the middle of the fairway and say it 's an iron of any description . |
| 24 | But I do n't think you should just appoint somebody and say he 's a worker director . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes he 'd cry about this , ’ she recalls , ‘ and say he was an awful nuisance to me . |
| 26 | So , for instance , if you have an argument with the police er on a matter , you might very well have to say to the police , I think officer you were take that and say you 're a lying bastard . |
| 27 | You could n't come and , you come bouncing in here and say you were a blacksmith . |
| 28 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 29 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 30 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |