Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] and [vb base] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll ask him all about them and look at them but I keep putting off buying them . |
| 2 | The big doors would open for them and close on them and McCloy and the men who were ‘ not quite up to his class ' would unload them and store the cargoes here . |
| 3 | no well because your looking down on every body else you tend to feel erm , well I feel sort of that you 've got to er feel responsible for them and look after them |
| 4 | To an extent some such tension is inherent to the advocacy role : ‘ advocates ’ volunteer to get to know individuals using the service , set out the options for them and negotiate on their behalf with service providers . |
| 5 | They 're the ones who get everybody else to do what they want them to do , like die for them and work for them and get them into power and protect them and pay taxes and buy them toys , and they 're the ones who 'll survive another big war , in their bunkers and tunnels . |
| 6 | If I noticed in time I would have to run after him and ask for it . |
| 7 | ‘ I missed London desperately but I needed my clients here to sit up and and take notice of me and prove to them that I am fit , healthy and looking good again . |
| 8 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 9 | People make fun of them and spit on them and laugh at them … " |
| 10 | I want to meet some of them and talk to them . |
| 11 | These vary from country to country and obviously you have to be aware of them and comply with them . |
| 12 | You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt . |
| 13 | If so , any school or group of schools in consultation with the College and the leader of the in-service team may decide to depart from a particular syllabus or portions of it and develop in its place new material which after being tried out and improved upon may be passed on to other schools and colleges for use on a wider scale with the approval of the Ministry . |
| 14 | Echoing Kant , he insisted that any properly objective enquiry could not impose on its material methods worked out in advance or in relation to some other topic ; only within the context of encounter with and experience of the object itself could it discover how to speak of it and enquire into it . |
| 15 | I stand in front of it and stare at it . |
| 16 | Mm you 've got to keep on top of it and keep with it . |
| 17 | Mother speaking of a great gown : ‘ If you ca n't afford it , steal it ; if you ca n't steal it , copy it ; if you ca n't copy it , buy a postcard of it and dream about it ; if you ca n't afford the postcard then get your fucking act together . ’ |
| 18 | aim towards it and work towards it . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never wanted anyone this much — to the extent that I can disregard everything I know about you and believe about myself … |
| 20 | A : Then bully for you and bully for them , though I suspect you 're lying . |
| 21 | We talk like him and look like me . |
| 22 | They gather near her and squabble among themselves with much caterwauling . |
| 23 | Some people like it and thrive on it , others find it very , very difficult to live with . |
| 24 | She was thinking how delicious the hand at her waist felt and how she longed to let her body sink against it and luxuriate in its gentle , virile strength . |
| 25 | What my source was up to , I have no idea ; all I do know is that while the world was waiting to discover how Mrs Thatcher was ever going to be toppled , the most unlikely possibility was that she might admit she had been wrong about something and ask for her P45 without more ado . |
| 26 | By midday we were making giant strides , so we headed for the hills and learnt how to herringbone up them and swoosh down them . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've heard that I 'm the most unsavoury , unconscionable character that ever existed but people all want to be associated with me and sit with me , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ Look , I think I 'll take this lot home with me and go through them later tonight . |
| 29 | You can walk down with me and talk to me Tru . |
| 30 | But … please , sir , can you come with me and see for yourself ? ’ |