Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extend both legs forwards and squeeze them together 30 times holding each squeeze for 1 second . |
| 2 | Extend both legs forwards and squeeze them together 30 times , holding each squeeze for 1 second . |
| 3 | Extend both legs forwards and squeeze them together 25 times , holding each squeeze for 1 second . |
| 4 | And sell it much dearer there obviously so er you know |
| 5 | He also has to learn not to watch his feet , because bending his head downwards will probably increase his spasticity , and make him more likely to fall . |
| 6 | Let us go , says the second proposition , and find somebody else , some wise man who will be able to answer the unanswerable , who can tell us which are the sheep who can properly raise their prices , and which the goats who ought to keep their prices stable or lower them ; and then , when he tells us , we will all go and scream blue murder at the goats and make them thoroughly ashamed and sorry for themselves . |
| 7 | • Strengthen your daily time-cues and make them as reproducible from day to day as possible . |
| 8 | So it is arguable that the select committees promote independence of mind among MPs and make them less willing to vote automatically as the whips would like . |
| 9 | Will the Government please review the workings of the Act and make them more effective ? |
| 10 | You do try and use them through that , and try and make them more confident in themselves , they 're you know people do accept this a lot more today , than they used to , erm and you know they need n't feel quite so self conscious . |
| 11 | All these moves are aimed at beating the stress which can weaken new stock and make them more susceptible to the other little problems of a new tank . |
| 12 | It will improve public services to the point of excellence , restore the morale of the people who deliver them and make them more efficient and capable of delivering good service to our constituents . |
| 13 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 14 | At precisely the time that the Party leadership was extolling the horse as a modern and fuel-saving means of transport , it was also planning to increase the journey-times of the rural population and make them more dependent on motor transport — or perhaps to shorten the time they had left to themselves , to sleep , think and so on . |
| 15 | It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate . |
| 16 | It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate . |
| 17 | Conservative privatisation was supposed to break up the big monopolies and make them more competitive and accountable to the public empty propaganda indeed . |
| 18 | Soon he will change those plans , and make them more elaborate . |
| 19 | He wanted to take me where the cold would hurt me and make me more miserable . |
| 20 | I also , er , we are also putting in for your community computing scheme , erm , realising that it will not only , if we get it , increase our own expertise and make us more efficient , which heaven knows , all organisations need to be , but will also be ab enable us to give advice to all the organisations we represent , and thus have an enormous ripple effect . |
| 21 | The health benefits and disciplines gained enhance the balance between our mind and body and make us more able to achieve our aims and to counter disease . |
| 22 | Such rifts deepened by violence , intolerance and cruelty create ever more bitter hostility and make it increasingly difficult for persons brought up in one faith to transfer allegiance elsewhere . |
| 23 | While this is unlikely to be a problem in the early stages , being on a prolonged low-calorie diet which does not provide an adequate intake of these and other nutrients might have an adverse effect upon the body 's metabolism , and make it increasingly difficult to either lose weight or to maintain your exercise level . |
| 24 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |
| 25 | And make it completely anonymous . |
| 26 | Then there is another point that I have just touched upon : if sin degrades and hardens us , then this will affect our emotional response anyway and make it even harder for the cross to be effective in inspiring us to change our way of living . |
| 27 | All colour and make it really easy for people to read , like A B C , abz as they say in Madrid . |
| 28 | There are no conditions specifically attached under the IDO but of course we have obligations — the county minerals officer will be pursuing us for restoration quite rightly — what we 'd like to do is go beyond the basic restoration and make it much better . |
| 29 | If an expert adopted a code of conduct , it would become part of his contract with the parties and make it much easier for a party to make a claim in the case of a breach . |
| 30 | We now have to alter the old consequences and make it quite clear to him that his bad behaviour will have results that are not only not rewarding , but also unpleasant enough to make him relinquish his tantrum . |