Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lawrence has insisted he wants to stay and honour his contract at Middlesbrough and make them a force in the Premier division . |
| 32 | Right , depends what the and quite honestly , if you bring these down and make them a bit more romantic |
| 33 | On the other hand , its civil servants probably have less training in business evaluation than do private sector analysts , and , of greatest importance , there is the overwhelming political temptation for the government of the day to hijack the nationalized industries and make them an instrument of whatever is the pressing problem of the day . |
| 34 | Wetherby threatens to end the affair and make her a laughing-stock , especially if he intends to flaunt a new liaison with Armitage under her nose . |
| 35 | IT IS not a new idea to take an impressionable , imaginative girl and make her the saviour of a man on the run , providing food , warmth and emotional support . |
| 36 | Sitting in a traffic jam with such a car alongside is a contemporary purgatory that produces reactions in me that bode no good for the future of the human race and make me a menace on the roads for minutes afterwards . |
| 37 | Okay go and make me a bacon sandwich |
| 38 | Go and make me a nice cup of tea Mike ? |
| 39 | ‘ If you move over I 'll put some wood on this fire and make us a cup of tea . ’ |
| 40 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 41 | No go and make us a cup of tea would you please ? |
| 42 | ‘ I 'm going to tuck you in , then go downstairs and make you a hot drink . ’ |
| 43 | I declare she 'll outshine every woman in London and make you the envy of every man who meets her . |
| 44 | The psychological power is eroded because although the community can still disapprove of you and make you an outcast if you defy the hierarchy , beyond the community is the world of English people — an unfriendly world , but it does exist . |
| 45 | In the last months of 1989 the people of Central and Eastern Europe take it upon themselves to address the future and make it a different place to be in . |
| 46 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 47 | Therefore , if you really want to move the business forward and make it a great business , you 've got to live it . |
| 48 | God is able to take the common in you and me and make it a sacrament of blessing for others . |
| 49 | ‘ A Phazer is not a miracle design that can take a junk board and make it a killer ’ , Milton said . |
| 50 | ‘ Who 'll come in tae ma wee hoose , tae ma wee hoose tae ma wee hoose ; for who 'll come in tae ma wee hoose and make it a wee bit bigger ! ’ |
| 51 | I want you to take this neck and make it a neck-through-body Strat-style guitar . ’ |
| 52 | This can be a two-way flow ; a good home base can help to create contentment , and at the same time personal satisfaction in life will feed back into the home and make it a pleasant environment for others . |
| 53 | Thrill to the spills of those white-knuckle rides and make it a day you and the kids will never forget . |
| 54 | ‘ He has long arms and I think he 'll use them to hold me off and make it a long bout . |
| 55 | It happens at the moment anyway , so why not sanction it and make it a skill in itself . |
| 56 | As I say all these poem 's are very dense and erm if I get round to , to completing them they 'll probably have at least another verse , certainly extra words and rhymes , that open it out and make it a bit more plausible Ours in the night , no I 've got it wrong , sorry , I 've moved on and I should n't 've done |
| 57 | In November 1958 he told the Western powers that they must leave Berlin within six months and make it a ‘ free city ’ , or he would sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany . |
| 58 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 59 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 60 | We must sacrifice the most valued possession among us and make it a burnt offering . |