Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead . |
| 2 | The protagonist laughs at the letters at first and refuses to answer them , but eventually her curiosity is piqued and she engages in a prolonged correspondence with her admirer . |
| 3 | We learn with them that he designs furniture ( as Harry Hoffman did ) and she works in a gallery of primitive art on Madison Avenue , but only in the end do they reveal their names to each other . |
| 4 | And he stays in a four-bedroomed detached house . |
| 5 | And he sleeps in a normal bed . |
| 6 | But this did not really hit orthodox Christianity , for prayers are always subject to the thing asked for being God 's will ; and He moves in a mysterious way , so that the workings of Providence may not be apparent until long afterwards . |
| 7 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 8 | So even if the associate has , has er , obtained the cheque but has n't managed to get it in the next day , and he dies in an accident . |
| 9 | And he lives in a house on Suez Street , |
| 10 | The friend is called Bobby and he lives in a slum near the city centre . |
| 11 | My old man 's a dustman he wears a dustman 's hat he wars cor blimey trousers and he lives in a council flat . |
| 12 | and he lives in a chateaux in France . |
| 13 | And he adds in a magazine interview that appears today : ‘ Everyone has deserted her . ’ |
| 14 | And he observes in a flat parajournalistic way that Petersburg is ‘ the administrative centre of all Russia ’ . |
| 15 | It 's too much , if you ever have too much you can just fold a bit down , if you have a big bandage you can fold either of those edges down first if you 've got too much and then you fold it forward and back , now your pin sticks in , but all the material and out of all the material and it goes in a straight upward direction , again it must go in that direction so that if per chance it comes undone it falls out and drops on the floor , whereas if it was sideways or downwards it would open and stick in your casualty , so that 's why we have it done that way . |
| 16 | In Lewis , machair is a small percentage of the total area and it occurs in a variety of forms ; small bayhead units , larger east coast elements north of Stornoway , complex beaches and strands in the southwest at Uig and semi-continuous expanses between Barvas and Ness on the northwest coast . |
| 17 | It breathes like the millipedes by means of tracheae and it reproduces in a manner reminiscent of those early land invertebrates , the scorpions . |
| 18 | I thought I heard the music of fairies , which is believed to render men forever enthralled to wonderland , and it plays in a responsive mind all life long . |
| 19 | An upper garment is drawn diagonally across the breasts , revealing their broad forms and falling loose below them over the tight belt which it conceals at the sides , and it hangs in a shallow curve on the left hip , a long trail on the right . |
| 20 | It 's chip resistant , it 's easy to apply and it comes in a choice of twelve brilliant shades . |
| 21 | Makes it and it makes in a way so that it , it 's not a |
| 22 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |