Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To go through it sometimes and change it old people like to do that . |
| 2 | Realising that before another couple of days had passed , she and Sarah would be able to make the journey Kirkbymoorside and book them two inside seats on the Leeds coach . |
| 3 | Drain the prawns thoroughly and pat them dry on kitchen paper . |
| 4 | It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action . |
| 5 | No , go and taste it first . |
| 6 | In the legal context , we need to feel that the prohibitions of laws , in the way they are defined and in the way they are applied , are justifiable and influence us all equally ( or , again , if they do not , that they discriminate on acceptable grounds ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Or he 'll rip up our trucks and tear us all into little bite-sized chunks of meat , sir . ’ |
| 8 | Howard would like to put his arms about the whole team , as they crowd round the journal , smelling of shirts , and squeeze them all , and fuse them into one perfect corporate human being . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stack them high and sell them cheap . |
| 11 | Smith saw the opportunity to do for books what Jack Cohen had done for groceries at Tesco 's — ‘ Pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap . ’ |
| 12 | TODAY 'S subtly-lit supermarkets , where loganberries nestle against kiwi-fruit , are a world away from Jack Cohen 's ‘ pile it high and sell it cheap ’ Tesco 's . |
| 13 | It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 . |
| 14 | They seem to equate marketing with the ‘ stack it high and sell it cheap ’ philosophy of the discount supermarket . |
| 15 | Many of those taking part in the poll also believed DIY stores still ‘ stack it high and sell it cheap ’ . |
| 16 | But the overwhelming majority of the party was fully prepared to give Mr Major full credit for winning the general election and driving the Maastricht Bill through ‘ and back him 100 per cent ’ . |
| 17 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 18 | I wish I may not be too fond and make him indifferent . |
| 19 | Here lived Gottfried Keller ( 1819–90 ) , the Swiss poet and novelist whose carefully crafted short stories embrace both humour and a touching romanticism , and make him one of the most important figures of Swiss literature . |
| 20 | Are we to kill his scholarship and make him unhappy ? |
| 21 | It you are not happy with the service you are receiving from your dealer then contact the Customer Relations Manager ( Mr Jefferies ) at Land Rover 021–722 2424 and make him aware of the situation . |
| 22 | In this case , the sooner I remove young Svend from Suzie the siren , and make him aware of his responsibilities towards his parents and his own future , the sooner I can resume a normal life ! |
| 23 | Mr Collin has been urged by councillors to write to Darlington MP Michael Fallon and make him aware of the collection problems faced by the council . |
| 24 | But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Motionless , unmindful of the cold or the swirling fog , he watched the man below , waiting for boredom to slacken his concentration and make him careless . |
| 27 | ‘ He said if it was his own son he would take him home and make him comfortable , ’ said Mrs McGettigan . |
| 28 | If a school can tailor its in-house courses and make them relevant to the needs of the whole school staff , then the dynamics of that collective and shared experience may provide greater rewards . |
| 29 | Bearing in mind their success , does the Minister support such schemes , as many of us do , and will resources be forthcoming to finance them and make them viable ? |
| 30 | I have already drawn attention to the power there is in weakness and it is often the case that God is able to take ordinary weak things of this world and make them powerful for him . |