Example sentences of "and [verb] [indef pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dark man had embraced her before he mounted , and whispered something no one else could hear . |
| 2 | It is a treasure tale well-worth telling and contains everything a detectorist could wish for : concealed documents , codes and treasure of various forms . |
| 3 | As a child he was always adventurous and found everything a huge joke … |
| 4 | I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches . |
| 5 | Once you 've got rid of some of it , why not take another bit , and then at the end of the day let's close the whole damn thing and save everybody a lot of money . |
| 6 | ‘ I want you to try and remember everything the two of you said , right from the beginning . |
| 7 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 8 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 9 | It has to bring everybody to know God , and to give everybody the chance of the everlasting happiness with God that we call heaven . |
| 10 | Whereas , taking him taking one guy a week for a week , is putting no-one in jeopardy and giving somebody a decent wage for a week . |
| 11 | And when she had woken and eaten everything the femme de menage had left for lunch plus some extra eggs and some ham , she was no longer certain what had taken place the night before . |
| 12 | He is speaking for a Government which has been in power so long that it believes it has a God-given right to govern and denies anyone the right to criticise . |
| 13 | Accompanied by Manuel Garcia Morante , she sang superbly for over an hour , and gave everyone the greatest joy . |
| 14 | He peered up into the mass of wires again , and gave one a poke . |
| 15 | She took all her medicines , and did everything the doctors said . |
| 16 | He thanked the press for a 50th birthday card in Glasgow and bought everyone a drink in Wales , but he does not mingle like Paddy Ashdown or even Mr Major . |
| 17 | Struggling to hold back tears , Mr Parry added : ‘ If my son becomes a symbol for peace and gives everyone a new sense of hope after so much tragedy , then that will be Tim 's unique achievement . ’ |
| 18 | Spain under her last Habsburg kings , it was pointed out , had controlled far more territory than any other European country and had none the less been a victim-State on the point of internal collapse . |
| 19 | It 's very agreeable to be able to reach down and offer someone a helping hand — particularly someone he has looked up to for so long . |
| 20 | With techno enjoying a second coming in Leeds and banging out of every other shop in the renovated arcades on Saturdays , some people were getting home after a day 's shopping and fancying something a bit different . |
| 21 | After midnight neighbours go outside and wish everyone a Happy New Year . |
| 22 | Lambert learned from them both , steepened his angle , and left everything a fraction later . |
| 23 | There 's this flower shop not far from the house , and I go there and buy summat every week . |