Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weingast , Shepsle and Johnsen ( 1981 ) explore the implications of projects , programmes and grants that concentrate their benefits on specific geographical constituencies but are financed through general taxation . |
| 2 | As a precaution , Alexandra took her fork round to the far side of the wain , in case her mother should be looking from a window , and plunged and twisted it in most expertly in order to bring out a huge wedge of tawny grasses , cut last summer in these very meadows . |
| 3 | Anita would you get a reading book love and sit and read it ? |
| 4 | But when Sam I could put it on in the bedroom and sit and watch it and Sunday , I get up on Sundays and that that cat 's ugly I get up Sundays now because Grange Hill 's on . |
| 5 | that professionals may acquire amounts of power and influence that enable them to determine their own activities . |
| 6 | It is an aspect of Karajan 's work and influence that makes him more the forebear of Simon Rattle than the successor of Arthur Nikisch . |
| 7 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 8 | The old porter grinned and winked and opened his mouth . |
| 9 | ‘ A couple of the girls felt she was being quiet and withdrawn and asked her if there was anything wrong . |
| 10 | It took McAllister all her will-power not to wrench it from his grasp and to see and devour her work in one go . |
| 11 | and if you can have a word with them I 'd be grateful that just lays the foundation for me to talk to them and er and to go and see them . |
| 12 | You have to sit down and think and talk it through logically . ’ |
| 13 | A cup of Assam tea from the north east of India , has a strength of character and verve that sets it apart from ordinary teas . |
| 14 | If the MD asks you What if interest rates drop to 6% , you can use the scenario manager to show how the end result would differ from the figures you have calculated — and throw in a few other interest rates as well , just to impress him/her and make that rise you were after a touch more attainable . |
| 15 | So I put my mind at the place where the character I 'm playing is , and whatever is making her cry , I work on that and make that affect me . |
| 16 | She dropped cans of root beer all over my feet in the subway station ; one broke and splattered and dampened my toes . |
| 17 | She grabbed him and hugged and hugged him . |
| 18 | To her astonishment , Rosalind flung her arms about her and hugged and kissed her , which was unusual for Rosalind at any time ! |
| 19 | Orin looked sick and hugged and kissed her . |
| 20 | Then I skipped the part she says yes and goes and gets her things and all and pictured the two of us in the coach again . |
| 21 | We get all , I , all he comes home , we works the horses in the morning and goes and stays you see overnight and |
| 22 | Contact the local press and encourage them to write about the band and advertise or review your gigs . |
| 23 | Talking about privatising the National Health Service and opting out of the National Health Service is not actually very helpful because people do n't believe that , they do n't believe it 's er N H S P L C. They do not , it is not a British Gas , it is not a British Telecom , they know it 's not and it devalues your argument if you talk of it in those terms , and it allows Waldergrave to stand up and to renounce and reject your statements and weaken your case . |
| 24 | And I , I suspect that they 're on their way out because the way they leap and scream and bang and thump I should think that they , most of them have been on drugs . |
| 25 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 26 | They all rub the soap on the dolls and rub and rub them , then splash up the water till the soap ‘ comes off ’ . |
| 27 | Byers Green was designated category D. Peggy Hutchinson objected and fought and saved it from demolition . |
| 28 | The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience . |
| 29 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |