Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CB = Child goes away quietly and plays with his toys when he is refused a sweet . |
| 2 | Willie nods and plays with his lip . |
| 3 | Although the laws will doubtless be tightened , no cure for the current state of financial laxity will be found so long as Yugoslavia has a ‘ soft budget ’ approach to monetary policy , and persists in its attempts to combine self-management with the doctrine of ‘ social ownership ’ . |
| 4 | The metaphysician uses the word ‘ substance ’ of the ‘ thing itself ’ , and thinks of its various properties as attached to it in much the same way that garments become attached to a clothes horse . |
| 5 | SO CLOSE , YET SO FAR : Kerry cuddles Panos and thinks of her Ben |
| 6 | And thinks of her daughters |
| 7 | WASHINGTON , D.C. In an effort to ease the economic woes precipitated by the dissolution of the Soviet Union , many of America 's premier museums recently sent food and supplies to their Russian counterparts . |
| 8 | According to Western reports , during the first months of 1990 the Khmers Rouges increased their infiltration of fighters and supplies from their border camps into Cambodia proper . |
| 9 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 10 | Thérèse and Léonie stared at the steep wall of rock , at the grass and weeds at its foot . |
| 11 | Amid the cloud of silver photo frames , the clutter of Herend porcelain and other knick-knacks which Diana collects and displays in her private rooms at Kensington Palace is a shredder to destroy her mail and a telephone scrambler to disguise her private calls . |
| 12 | Instead of locating the other elsewhere in the transgressive writing of literature or madness , Foucault himself becomes plato 's banished poet , and enacts in his language a supplementary simulacrum of the delirium of history . |
| 13 | Kemp frequently provides details of superficial social acquaintance between scientists and artists and refers to their reading habits . |
| 14 | Eagleton , for example , describes socialist realism as " one of the most devastating assaults on artistic culture ever witnessed in modern history " , and refers to its principal Soviet advocate , Zhdanov , as " Stalin 's cultural thug " . " |
| 15 | Gender identity is dependent on the personality of the individual and refers to our inner feeling of being masculine or feminine in outlook . |
| 16 | The use of square brackets would normally mean that there is nothing in the hand of the king , not even a signature , but that the material is contemporary with him and belongs to his period . |
| 17 | and begs on his knees , |
| 18 | Jim feels ‘ as if a demon had been whispering in his ear ’ and goes to his death with the whisper still sounding , killed by the people he had tried , in one final , tragic mistake , to save for the future . |
| 19 | ( Abberley turns his back and goes to his bed . ) |
| 20 | She do n't hear me , so I say it again , but she just unlocks the door and goes into her room . |
| 21 | ( Robyn , a dressing-gown over her underclothes and slippers on her feet , descends the short dark staircase to the ground floor and goes into her narrow and extremely untidy kitchen . |
| 22 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 23 | The more he follows me around and goes through my things , the more I feel I have to hide things . |
| 24 | STORY:7.30am : Climbs out of bed in his luxury Brighton home and goes for his habitual five mile run , alone out of preference . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is putting bells and whistles on its SparcBook notebook : it can now offer a colour active matrix display and up to 360Mb of disk . |
| 27 | Satan comes over and rubs against her hand like he does when he 's hungry , but she just stares at him . |
| 28 | She sits on the roof and smirks at our fears , |
| 29 | She opens the electronic gates and drives into her home . |
| 30 | Jennifer wears a sable fur coat around town and drives to her job as a receptionist in a Cadillac . |