Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wishes to make an adjustment , would not it be more sensible to detach their role from advocacy of method and confine it solely to inspection ? |
| 2 | She wondered if Ethel would relent and change her back , or whether she might be really wicked enough to leave her as a frog , for ever . |
| 3 | How quickly things change in racing and change they certainly have this week . |
| 4 | Both philology and Catholicism are here presented as ‘ languages ’ which Julia is unable to master because she wants to question them and change them rather than accept their inherent systematicity . |
| 5 | we 're prepared to look at the the client reports and change them so that they become as good as we , we can get them . |
| 6 | Put him on so and so , and so and so on that , and change them about . |
| 7 | We all develop throughout our lives , but experiences affect and change us differently . |
| 8 | You ca n't up and change it just like that . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , but I could n't be bothered to go all the way back there and change it again ! |
| 10 | Go and change it then |
| 11 | If this happens you should create a new DC based on the rejected one and change it appropriately to include the assessors ' comments . |
| 12 | My doom I speak and change it never : |
| 13 | Anyway , we must be clever and change you gradually . ’ |
| 14 | I had another cup and watched her take the rollers out of her hair and comb it carefully into a high , curly pompadour . |
| 15 | The zoo-man at the turnstile 'd come rushing out and Vern 'd get scared and drag me away to the place where he 'd hidden my … |
| 16 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 17 | If Kelly could see her now she 'd throw up her hands in horror and drag her off to the nearest restaurant to order the biggest meal on the menu . |
| 18 | ‘ So then I grab hold of Christine and drag her out . |
| 19 | In a nightmare-blur of frenzied activity , Cardiff saw Duvall lunging back through the storm in their direction , a shower of sparkling glass on his shoulders ; saw Rohmer seize Gilbert by the collar of his jacket and whirl him away bodily from the monstrous , thrashing shape and drag him backwards , hair and coat whipping madly in the hellwind . |
| 20 | When I got to the spot , I groped beneath the water to try and find him and drag him up , but could feel nothing . |
| 21 | As he starts to crumple at my feet , I grab the front of his shirt and drag him upright . |
| 22 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 23 | He let Coffin go up and drag him out . |
| 24 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 25 | It calls for the qualities of a fighter , for only with those qualities can we win through the constant traps and barriers laid by the forces that would block our path and drag us down . |
| 26 | I was sweating , you could imagine thinking God we 're going to have to take the wheels off and drag it through with a tractor or something like that on skids , cos we needed the van for Monday and there was n't going to be a lot of t But then suddenly yes a again I suddenly th |
| 27 | To find out what sort of bottom exists in a swim just stick on a heavy leger and drag it back towards you . |
| 28 | The Eurythmics song finishes and you put a foot on the ghetto-blaster 's power cable and drag it smartly across the bathroom tiles , pulling the lead from the back of the machine . |
| 29 | I think it is often worthwhile to stick with a basic idea and develop it in as many ways as possible . |
| 30 | Originally , ICI said that it would license a Rhône-Poulenc SAR technology and develop it further , but the new process has been developed in conjunction with Air Liquide . |