Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers . |
| 2 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 3 | Maurice clasped his hands together and seemed to study them . |
| 4 | The doctor brought his hands together and seemed to study them . |
| 5 | Manson saw that somehow and decided to write them a letter because he did n't like being called a creep . |
| 6 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 7 | But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her . |
| 8 | But he stood by his comments today and refused to withdraw them , accusing Sinn Fein and the SDLP of ‘ deliberately misrepresenting ’ what he said . |
| 9 | Adam set the twelve sherry glasses that were cut in a greek key pattern round their rims in the middle of the moonlight and said he would put them in a box tomorrow and try to sell them in Sudbury to the man who had the antique shop in Gainsborough Street that they had passed . |
| 10 | If you put one ruler on here and kept sliding them about until it was |
| 11 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 12 | I take up points of view I do n't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt . |
| 13 | As Melody put it to Seb when they were discussing the matter for the umpteenth time at the farm , ‘ You go up there and try to tell 'em Anna should n't be marrying Nahum Plunkett and they 'll tear you to pieces and feed you to the dogs . ’ |
| 14 | You will meet those who spent two , maybe three days there and left believing they had done it all . |
| 15 | They revealed he had been seriously injured in a knife attack at his home four months earlier and had urged them to drop their inquiries . |
| 16 | At the sight of them she sprang forward and offered to get them a cup of coffee . |
| 17 | As soon as the developing eggs begin to move within their globes of jelly , the males lean forward and appear to eat them . |
| 18 | The survivor thus denies that he has ever harboured any hostile feelings against the dead loved one ; the soul of the dead harbours them instead and seeks to put them into action during the whole period of mourning … . |
| 19 | The only way was to push straight ahead and try to ignore them . |
| 20 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |