Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cross-examined by John Griffith Williams QC , about why he did not stop for the children , he said that he was concerned not to hit them and instinctively moved away into the fast lane . |
| 2 | It is always hard to forgive people because forgiveness is often seen as a sign of weakness and we feel vulnerable enough after we have been hurt that we tend to build a wall between ourselves and those who have offended us , rather than to have the strength to forgive them and therefore become reconciled with them . |
| 3 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
| 4 | I would recite some of the lines Grandad had taught me and sometimes sing songs like ‘ Who Will Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ . |
| 5 | dad 's going to light them and then you can blow them |
| 6 | ( Press reports of Sept. 27 cited PLO officials as apparently confirming that on the previous day Ashrawi and Husseini had addressed the PNC , while Le Monde reported the " audition " of Ashrawi and Husseini by the PNC , " although nobody outside the members of the congress ' political committee was allowed to see them and therefore provide tangible proof of their presence " . |
| 7 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 8 | He 's always pleased to see me and sometimes he gives me food and stuff . |
| 9 | They had stopped coming to see me and never telephoned any more . |
| 10 | Smith agreed to see me and so I flew to Salisbury , arriving on a Wednesday . |
| 11 | thing but we linked it right into Christmas decorations and how they would build them and how they 'd make them , and how difficult it was and to actually make something that looked er , reasonably good |
| 12 | Or you can actually try freezing them to kill them and then they just drop off on their own . |
| 13 | Parents feed their babies , cuddle them , change their nappies , smooth cream on their bottoms , bath them , tickle them and generally communicate through bodily involvement . |
| 14 | They enlighten us on the mystery , we are grateful to them , we trust them and then we buy their product . |
| 15 | But when you trust them and then they tell you lies what do you do ? |
| 16 | She 'd heard nothing and so I said nothing . ’ |
| 17 | Next , he started slapping me and then finally actually punching me . |
| 18 | One criticism that was levelled at calculators when they were widely available was that kids would start using them and really would n't understand basic arithmetic . |
| 19 | For the ‘ dogmatic dialectic ’ , as he describes dialectical materialism , the whole question naturally poses no problem , for each person or group simply constitutes a partial moment of an already operative movement of totalization that produces them and then goes beyond them . |
| 20 | How to approach stand visitors and how to interview them and how to deal with irrelevant visitors . |
| 21 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 22 | That was the way we became his followers , the way we got saved , it 's the way we continue , it 's the way and it 's the only re the only method by which we will ever stand before him and he will usher us into his presence to stand eternity with him , through his grace and as we see others , not in a sense of condemnation , not in a sense of self righteousness or pointing the finger , as we see others we can say with that man of old who , as he watched the , the man being dragged , to the , to the gallows , there but for the grace of God , goes I , goes me and there but for God 's grace , think of that most , that worse condition that you know , think of that person who has messed their life up more than any body else and er , who has made a total wreck of it , there but for the grace of God is you and there 's me , oh thank God for his grace . |
| 23 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 24 | Everything that is in my head , everything that I feel ; the fact that the natural world thinks nothing and neither laughs nor cries . ’ |
| 25 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 26 | Two club contests at Boveton Beach produced nothing and just a few codling from the whole stretch of beach . |
| 27 | But I soon got someone and away we went . |
| 28 | well not saying tha , I mean I and again I , I think what I need to do is get a sheet again , obviously working with yourselves and Rod to get you more information to make sure the classes are not and do n't get same situation as last year |
| 29 | Will us to wear ourselves and never rest , |
| 30 | For one moment her eyes met his and fleetingly she wondered how much he had heard . |