Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 2 | But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best . |
| 3 | I have been encouraged to find that the young are not so predisposed to put me aside at the age of seventy and that a new generation of students and artists regard me as something of a cult figure . |
| 4 | They recorded one album , and bootlegs reveal it to be a rough but fascinating affair , veering wildly between respectful renditions of traditional classics and slightly embarrassing Beatles pastiches . |
| 5 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 6 | These are practical sessions where students and tutors prepare themselves for work with children in the second half of the term . |
| 7 | Their leaves , stems and branches orientate themselves to the light , while their roots seek out minerals and water . |
| 8 | Silage was found mainly on the larger units as the cost of machinery and buildings put it outwith the scope of the small family and part-time farmers . |
| 9 | Trouble arises at this point , for no country can ensure that all its ministries and agencies manage everything in a wholly co-ordinated way . |
| 10 | Their experiences and feelings embrace lots of important areas of life — love , boyfriends , sex and contraception ; relationships with parents and friends ; school , adoption , abortion , pregnancy and birth , Mother and Baby Homes , surviving on social security benefits , living alone , getting married , and much more . |
| 11 | Nurses volunteer their services when they wish to work and managers engage them at the times required . |
| 12 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 13 | Asians know nothing about Africa and Africans know nothing about Asia . |
| 14 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 15 | Both boys and girls need plenty of reassurance during this by fears that they are not normal , especially if they are early or late developers . |
| 16 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 17 | This is excess mortality of er rates for males and females age one to four for different years of the twentieth century . |
| 18 | Surely if the courts and lawyers limit themselves to medical criteria as justifying their sex classification system , they must follow expert opinion . |
| 19 | Several pests and diseases manifest themselves upon aquatic plants . |
| 20 | Evidencve of the original hospital is fading as new building and departments take it into the next century . |
| 21 | Quite often the divisional boundaries in the amalgamated force mirror the old , small force boundaries and men define themselves in relation to their early experience with perhaps an inner city ethic , a large-town police style , or in the framework of a more rural situation . |
| 22 | The manager and waiters treat them to a respectful embalming . |
| 23 | It 's an eyesore and residents want something to be done . |
| 24 | Some sting , some bite , some throw poisonous hairs at you and others squirt you with blinding sprays . |
| 25 | They mean that as well as being fed and warm , claimants should be able to buy newspapers , visit relatives , retain membership of trade unions and churches , and be able to live in a way that " ensures , so far as possible , that public officials , doctors , teachers , landlords and others treat them with courtesy due to every other member of the community " . |
| 26 | Some critics question its sustainability and others view it as a sop to pacify the poor . |
| 27 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 28 | Why not look at the situation rationally : it 's the British Mountaineering Council , and sports climbing and competitions have nothing in common with the ethos of mountaineering activities — so why not ignore them , excommunicate them ? |
| 29 | Parrots and macaws grab them with their beaks . |
| 30 | Sunshine three hundred and fifty days a year , and Californians fry themselves under microwaves . |