Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all spurred and whipped as we reached the bottom of the hill to keep up pace for the snow underfoot made the going heavy , when both Bowyer 's horse and that of Southgate suddenly took on a life of their own . |
| 2 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |
| 3 | The specialist diagnosed an ‘ inflamed pubic bone ’ and recommended that I wear an athletic support for sport . |
| 4 | You catch both balls and repeat until you have a very smooth action when you will be ready to insert the third ball . |
| 5 | I have to report , though , that it was here my own trust in the French as the most obdurately literate of all nations was dented when I went into a bookshop and asked if they had a copy of the Song of Roland . |
| 6 | Often we would design something specially ; if someone rang and asked if we had a Mexican outfit for a feature on Mexican clothes we 'd say ‘ yes ’ and within a day have a sample made up which fitted in with a Mexican look . ’ |
| 7 | Plummer called through and asked if she wanted a drink . |
| 8 | With this Phil Barlow capitulates and agrees that he has no objection to this appointment provided it is merely a monitoring job where no direct links are made with parents . |
| 9 | While she phoned the switchboard and requested that they page the cardiographer , Michael Barrington the orthopaedic SR arrived and glanced at the shattered stubs of the young man 's femurs . |
| 10 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 11 | The fire was so small and mean that it gave no warmth at all . |
| 12 | Anne was angry and upset when she heard the news , and found that many of the women at work agreed with her . |
| 13 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 14 | Well I believe that the report that er is before us that has been moved erm actually sets out a framework which the social service committee is able to work to and to monitor and I see no point whatsoever in referring this back to social services erm to delay further what is the inevitable . |
| 15 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 16 | I was going to make a song and dance when we got the 100th subscriber , but 98 's near enough . |
| 17 | It was Peirce who first termed such expressions indexical signs , and argued that they determined a referent by an existential relation between sign and referent ( see Burks , 1949 ) Peirce 's category in fact included rather more than the directly Context-dependent expressions that are now called deictic or indexical , and his particular system of categories has not been put to much effective use in linguistic pragmatics ( but see e.g. Bean , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I think I see something deeper , more infinite , more eternal than the ocean in the expression in the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning , and coos and laughs because it sees the sun shining in its cradle . ’ |
| 19 | Economic historians used to interpret these as " uncultivated holdings " and inferred that they represented a total loss from the landlord 's standpoint . |
| 20 | She still , at this point , disliked the songs and it was n't until she was in the studio and involved that she found a passionate core to the music and began to revel in it . |
| 21 | Responsibility for those who deliver the education service requires people to feel and to know that they have a professional responsibility and can be trusted to discharge that . |
| 22 | It was shimmering , incandescent , as the colours deepened and the long blue-black tail unfurled and stiffened until it gained the strength to fly . |
| 23 | Conversely , because very little substantive empirical work has been based upon the Marxist model , it is not clear from a relatively small-scale study such as that by Sankoff and Laberge whether it offers a potentially more insightful way of analysing variation . |
| 24 | The current generation of devices has already established a growing acceptance of electronic media among information users and demonstrated that they have a choice in the way they get access to the resources they need . |
| 25 | Those aspects of the context which are directly reflected in the text , and which need to be called upon to interpret the text , we shall refer to as activated features of context and suggest that they constitute the contextual framework within which the topic is constituted , that is , the topic framework . |
| 26 | ‘ What do you bet she does n't come marching in here and suggest that you have a strong dose of Syrup of Figs ? ’ |
| 27 | That is quite a lot ; but why be more ambitious and say that it makes the place of mind in Nature more intelligible to us ? |
| 28 | Afterwards he got in touch , not to sign me but to offer encouragement and say that he liked the album . |
| 29 | I think I would go along with Lesley and say that there comes a point where erm government initiatives need to be taken . |
| 30 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |