Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the sake of convenience , I drew a box on each paper and dampened it before applying my wash . |
| 2 | She breaks through it by using her head like a pneumatic drill , pressing her hard sharp jaws on to the soil and vibrating it by trembling her wing muscles . |
| 3 | The servant also said Mick phoned Jerry on Monday and blasted her for discussing their marriage in public . |
| 4 | He seized her shoulders , but her hands came up to hold his wrists and prevent him from pulling her close . |
| 5 | That is a fairly complicated question , which may confuse people and prevent them from seeing our present need clearly . |
| 6 | Thus the common aim of both legal mechanisms is to force managers to maximize profits for their company and prevent them from maximizing their own utility . |
| 7 | The Tunisian government confirmed on Sept. 11 that , while it stood by the unanimous March 1990 Arab League decision to transfer the headquarters to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] , the move to speed up the transfer " could hamper this body and prevent it from shouldering its responsibility " . |
| 8 | Then he seemed to change the subject as he continued , ‘ You surely do n't think I plan just to sit around and do nothing about getting my speedboat back , not to mention my cousin ? |
| 9 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 10 | It is BP 's policy to employ suitably qualified disabled people and to help them in overcoming their handicaps at work . |
| 11 | A variety of witches faced us across the TV studio and encouraged us by supporting our warning to the public to avoid playing around with the ouija board . |
| 12 | She opened her eyes and cursed him for disturbing her silent thoughts . |
| 13 | But at the funeral , in a fit of hysteria , she turned on me and blamed me for causing her father 's death . |
| 14 | Ever since we met , my dear , so gently and subtly you 've been teaching me , you and Miguelito , and instead of thanking you I had this attack of childish pique and blamed you for hurting my feelings ! |
| 15 | Then he drove for 45 minutes to a deserted spot and raped her before dumping his sobbing victim in the village of Cheriton , near Winchester , Hants — 10 miles from where he first struck . |
| 16 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 17 | A male settles close to a female and identifies himself by vibrating his wings to the rhythm of his love song . |
| 18 | You can select any uninitialised item from the list displayed by LIFESPAN and initialise it by entering its details in the columns of the table , as described below . |
| 19 | Some girls do n't even want to ask in case their parents get angry and ban them from seeing their boyfriends . |
| 20 | He says she was abusive and accused him of abducting her child . |
| 21 | Belinda saw the gesture , winced inwardly as the image stabbed at her feelings , and despised herself for wasting her emotions in this way . |
| 22 | He poured tea for them both and drank his before relieving her curiosity . |
| 23 | I respectively , to the anions and cations of solids and free them by neutralizing their charge ; water is thus a highly effective solvent . |
| 24 | We 'll do a Pygmalion on you and you can go back to the hospital and charm them into letting your dad out . ’ |
| 25 | In both countries , undoubtedly one of the goals of what the United States euphemistically called ‘ low-intensity conflict ’ was to hamper and discredit the revolutionary movements ' ability to deliver services to their peoples , and to involve them in changing their lives . |
| 26 | Fred stumbled and steadied himself by putting his hand on a York ham . |