Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children were taken into care in mid-1987 because of their parents ' inability to look after them properly and following suspicions of sexual abuse against the girl . |
| 2 | Declaring variables as local , creates them locally and initialises them to zero/null . |
| 3 | Pupils should be encouraged to formulate first the questions they need to answer by using such sources , so that they use them effectively and do not simply copy verbatim ; |
| 4 | Thank them politely and choose someone else . |
| 5 | Sat there through the night , closing my eyes at times , then opening them slowly and allowing the glass to impose itself . |
| 6 | My mother glared at me suspiciously and told me not be so ridiculous . |
| 7 | He thanked me politely and returned to his prying , looking in all the drawers , flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea . |
| 8 | She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country . |
| 9 | It also criticized the Department of Transport ( DTp ) for not applying them vigorously and called on the department to widen the scope of inspections and review methods of enforcement . |
| 10 | Ryan he says it 's foolish , cards , he says mum when you just , you just put them somewhere and forget where you put them , so he says I 've decided to buy you oh this looks a lovely one |
| 11 | He concluded his examination by turning to me suddenly and saying : ‘ I feel you are going to write this book one day . ’ |
| 12 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |
| 13 | Yet his subjects had a right of resistance , of rebellion against him , if he failed to rule them justly and to give them due protection . |
| 14 | Treat them gently and make sure none of them are broken or there 'll be trouble . ’ |
| 15 | He motioned them inside and left them . |
| 16 | There did n't seem anything else to do except take them inside and put them in water . |
| 17 | Sometimes when the little ones were weakly or had been abandoned by their mothers , we would have to take them inside and feed them by hand . |
| 18 | With help from a tutor I finally put them together and fitted them into the cubic box I was given . |
| 19 | A good direct mail programme will hold them together and bring their response . |
| 20 | Double positives are taken away making it negative and your H positives go in here , making it positive , so you get a you get a little a little potential difference , a little difference in voltage , which gives a Any any two metals if you put them together and make them a bit damp , or even if you do n't make them damp , you usually get a little a tiny voltage . |
| 21 | Yeah , oh we erm , bits of paper with patterns on them , like stain glass windows and the colouring , we colour them in and we stick them together and make a lantern |
| 22 | And we had that one back and nailed them together and sold them again . |
| 23 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 24 | Wrap them together and wind them in and you 'll run the risk of abrasion . |
| 25 | Take some of the favourite things that your child likes , mix them together and serve from a warm pot with a ladle . |
| 26 | The best is to obtain juveniles from a number of sources , rear them together and let nature take its course . |
| 27 | The principle which animates these planes — holds them together and establishes communication between them — can be visualized as the life force or vital force , the Prana of the Hindus , or the Ch'i energy of the Chinese , that elusive something which departs at death . |
| 28 | ‘ Jesus called them together and said , ‘ You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them , and their high officials exercise authority over them . |
| 29 | Now you can , those are both the same sides so you 're gon na en add them together and give it the sign that is common to both . |
| 30 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |