Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Myrcans slew these lords , and sought better ones to replace them . |
| 2 | But this Am , erican system is very expensive and needs several men to operate it . |
| 3 | Kersey watched the gulls and tried various gambits to draw him out , succeeding at last : ‘ I suppose Sara 's story is credible and you ca n't altogether blame her for not coming out with it sooner . ’ |
| 4 | She has just completed a film shoot in France , with French dialogue ( ‘ I drove my family mad learning it ’ ) , and wants British audiences to see it . |
| 5 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |
| 6 | Such harsh realities made the dream of parity , and still more of equality , seem remote , and allowed later critics to denounce it as a sham . |
| 7 | He would live in an attic and wear threadbare clothes provides he could go on seeing and making movies ’ . |
| 8 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 9 | Weight loss is common , as are the obvious physical signs of needle track marks ( and wearing long sleeves to hide them ) , and the perpetually sore , running nose of someone who has a sniffing habit . |
| 10 | For Alan this has been the culmination of a story which began in 1981 when he bought an old 1965 Sunbeam Tiger and spent eight years rebuilding it — a labour of love . |
| 11 | PRINCESS Diana held hands with a dying AIDS victim yesterday and spent 15 minutes comforting him . |
| 12 | Young Neil told how old man Allen one day for a bet had drawn a line across a bar-room floor at the Black Horse and challenged all comers to cross it . ’ |
| 13 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 14 | It can help to identify problems with clarity , and find specific remedies to meet them . |
| 15 | After years of listening to and reading Anglo-Saxon women letting it all hang out , it was refreshing to be among women who so rigorously kept it all in . |
| 16 | It stood twenty-five spans high and took four horses to pull it . |
| 17 | The stabilization fund would be held in reserve to support rouble parity if Russia agreed to the IMF 's reform programme and took effective steps to apply it . |
| 18 | Rather , pluralist approaches stress the need to establish that a group or individual consciously wanted a particular policy outcome and took successful measures to secure it . |
| 19 | The wound had been deep , and resisted all efforts to stop it bleeding . |
| 20 | This chapter examines the gender imbalances among psychologists , and analyses egalitarian attempts to rectify them . |
| 21 | Mr Bell accused Northumbrian Water of being ‘ high handed ’ in the way it implemented the change and said many tenants felt they were having to pay about £5 a week extra . |
| 22 | ‘ And I only wish that I was family and so could be of help to you and had some rights to see you . |
| 23 | My contention is that the prime reason for this situation — in the publicly available data domain — is the failure of librarians and information scientists to get a proper grip on the overall problem and to take effective measures to solve it . |
| 24 | The important thing seems to be that teachers should be aware of this conflict and take some steps to resolve it , and this involves some kind of negotiation between teacher and pupils . |
| 25 | Conversely , chemical weathering along microfractures in a rock will weaken it and help physical processes break it down more rapidly . |
| 26 | ‘ If I can take out a £420 loan and have ten years to pay it back , I 'll just pick up the cheque and go out and get ratted , ’ he said . |
| 27 | A good Americansandwich will be a Dagwood Bumstead special — at least six inches long , four multi-layered inches high and need two hands to control it . |
| 28 | However , I 'm not too impressed by the pickups and need some replacements to give it a bit more OOMPH . |
| 29 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |