Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun pl] [conj] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 2 | A Fish will indeed eat the newly-hatched tadpoles of frogs and newts and regard them as something of a delicacy . |
| 3 | Today 's agricultural and forestry methods have caused a decline in broadleaf woodlands and coppices , affecting the animals and birds that inhabit them and the general landscape . |
| 4 | One is to give all the children obstacles such as sacks , boxes , old tyres , ladders and ropes and give them the opportunity to make up their own course . |
| 5 | It is selected from the pages of the BDN , to which he was a frequent contributor and on whose editorial board he served for a long period : A combined system is one which includes all useful methods and techniques and adapts them and uses them according to the particular needs of the child . |
| 6 | He reported diligent perusal of the Dictionary and Figures and believed them to be the ‘ compleatest work of that kind extant ’ , but expressed his regret that many American plants had been omitted : he hoped to remedy this by sending specimens of growing plants within the next few years . |
| 7 | It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling . |
| 8 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 9 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 10 | First we discard all the subjective labels and comments and replace them with objective descriptions of behaviour ( 3 ) . |
| 11 | In meditation it is therefore wise for us to record all our images and visions and remember them as being of supreme value to ourselves . |
| 12 | An icy blast of air hit Dad full in the face , taking with it the matches , ash and fag-ends and strewing them over his head and chest . |
| 13 | In the absence of any serious challenge to the wealth and institutions that reproduce them , the upper class will survive , adapt and thrive . |
| 14 | No work that properly considers developments in different countries and continents and pieces them together in a satisfying , narrative whole . |
| 15 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 16 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 17 | She 's got her stocking feet right up between his legs and cuddles his feet in her ample bosom , having previously removed his shoes and socks and displayed them in sideways V-sign on the little shelf at the window . |
| 18 | Remove the yolks and place them in a dish with mayonnaise and onions and beat them with a fork . |
| 19 | They washed and dried the cups and plates and put them away . |
| 20 | I retained my archers but took away their bows and arrows and gave them powerful , waterproof torches instead . |
| 21 | Pot up the summer 's fuchsias and geraniums and store them in a frost-free position over winter . |
| 22 | Jay had a horror of moths flying into her face and hair ; she liked to think of herself as someone who cups her hands for moths and spiders and frees them . |
| 23 | These works make explicit what is only suggested in this livret the opening number of the work serves as a processional for the instrumentalists and some or all of the singers and dancers that brings them into the performing space . |
| 24 | Veblen 's achievement was to capture the strategies of the leisure class in a series of classic phrases and categories and exemplify them clearly and in detail with a masterful sense of irony . |
| 25 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 26 | That chapter notes briefly that he and Jacob agreed to part because the land would not support all their flocks and herds and allow them to live together . |
| 27 | At the Pattmore project in London and the Rosemount project in Glasgow for example , mothers are provided with adequate child care and it enables them to attend courses and gain skills and qualifications that give them a better chance in the job market . |
| 28 | The student recalls the relevant concepts , rules and skills and combines them to form a solution to a problem . |
| 29 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 30 | With sudden inspiration and at the last moment , I stripped the big bed of its blanket and pillows and stuffed them on top of the suitcases . |