Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , because the personal strategies which allow teachers to enthuse about one activity , put up with another and resent but simply get on with yet another can indeed be taken into account by heads . |
| 2 | Pigment granules diffuse within their skins as they become excited and they fight with their colours , circling one another and flexing and quivering their fins like bull-fighters ' capes . |
| 3 | but it 's erm it does mean that you can , so to speak , design your teeth as a sort of decent engineering job and make them fit with one another and slide over one another and grind and so on . |
| 4 | An animal does indeed strive instinctively to keep alive , much as it will forage for food ( plants in unconscious and less mobile ways do also ) , but , lacking language , it is unduly anthropomorphic to describe this as hoping or aspiring to live to a ripe old age ; except perhaps as a joke . |
| 5 | Beeswax is a cat who , during the day , does n't do much except sunbathe and doze . |
| 6 | So much as sift and ripple it |
| 7 | As the foregoing arguments have suggested , control is not imposed so much as negotiated or bargained between parties who both have considerable power resources ( cf. Aharoni 1981a : 1342 ) . |
| 8 | You seem like a respectable sort of a lady , really , but I ca n't have people laughing like that and screaming and abusing in my pub . |
| 9 | No you 're doing that first , you 're doing it now , do that and go and see her afterwards |
| 10 | And then they were put they were er put er in the fire wire brushed and all that and looked and inspected for cracks you see . |
| 11 | Therapist : ‘ You say you feel awful at times ; let's look at that and try and break it down into the physical sensations you feel , the thoughts you have , and how it effects your behaviour . |
| 12 | bu and when you it you have to stand in one place going like that and being , and if you touch anybody else and do that and try and get all the people . |
| 13 | the other option of course is not to do that and to try and gain some experience erm m maybe voluntary for some of the time so that maybe I can then spend you know in another years time get a job which is a bit more relevant and I 'll be able to earn some money . |
| 14 | Well you c I can get a list of all the corporate accounts that and have and we can go through them one by one |
| 15 | All these when rescued or built will be in Hawes and nowhere else . |
| 16 | First , there may be a view that consultation may do little but depress and demoralise the work-force which is bound to see the implementation of redundancies as a fait accompli . |
| 17 | At the centre of all that lived and moved in this ghastly universe was the mine . |
| 18 | His moment came at a time when shoring up the old seemed all that mattered or all that anyone could think of . |
| 19 | Mr Ashford said the exams harked back to those of the 1950s when memory was all that mattered and certain sections of right-wing politicians were totally committed to them . |
| 20 | The present and future were all that mattered and everybody started afresh . |
| 21 | You 're not required to know all that remember or indeed any of it because they have everything they need to know , particularly if they do the long tour , they have everything they need to know on the tour and everything they need to know about the furniture well pieces of furnitures . |
| 22 | It was this urgency above all that moved and shocked Roland . |
| 23 | I went to them all and watched and listened and made my own judgements . |
| 24 | He was off the field throughout the second day having treatment for a pulled thigh muscle , but said today : ‘ I have not felt the injury at all when batting and it is much better . ’ |
| 25 | He wanted her to do more than dig and weed . |
| 26 | The tide was coming in and , as he rounded the rocks which screened the Cove , he saw two things : a courting couple doing what he felt to be far more than courting and then something a little further away which made his heart miss a beat . |
| 27 | If to tax and to please , no more than to love and be wise , is not given to man , may I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on seeking to do the impossible . |
| 28 | Here the individualistic , childhood-makes-man approach is relatively trivial and , paradoxically , can do little more than to complement and compound the worst aspects of the holistic fallacy by narrowly explaining adult character as a function of cultural conditioning and contemporary family circumstances . |
| 29 | He can do no more than to respect and serve them both.l |
| 30 | Heroin is still er quite available in Oxfordshire , and tends to be injected more than smoked or sniffed , so that 's another area for concern . |