Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying . |
| 32 | Erm do you erm drive after people and stop them from driving fast ? |
| 33 | She looked up into his face , fighting back the urge to reach out her hand and stop him from going . |
| 34 | No plant matter is actively used in the construction of the nest , but it may be used indirectly to anchor the nest and stop it from floating away . |
| 35 | But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’ |
| 36 | We surfed in as Terrie fought to keep control of the tiller and stop us from broaching . |
| 37 | Okay what I want you to do is to get twelve of them first and put them into see how many rectangles you could make . |
| 38 | Then home , at speed , to pull several garments from her wardrobe and consider them with mounting irritation . |
| 39 | But you could actually put a bag all the way and tie it into tie it into er the it 's the Skillery Bridge that one . |
| 40 | ‘ You can still make a bit of money and enjoy yourself without ripping people off . |
| 41 | If pleasant thoughts and memories come into your mind , look at them and enjoy them before returning to your chosen image . |
| 42 | Have what you like , and enjoy it without feeling guilty . |
| 43 | We 're saying , we 're trying to help you by raising this money , erm it 's not sort of lecturing them or anything , we 're trying to focus on communities and empower them by giving them money for projects they want to happen , it 's not anything we 've decided . |
| 44 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 45 | The money will keep you in business ; compensate you for lost profits ; give you breathing space while you reorganise and/or find a suitable replacement ; and save you from having to find a new credit line at a difficult time . |
| 46 | If the Americans refused permission to land , he said , he would simply take off anyway and embarrass them into giving landing permission from above Newark airport . |
| 47 | She hid the cutting in the cocktail cabinet in the prop-room — if she took it home Uncle Vernon might get his hands on it and embarrass her by reading it out to the commercial travellers . |
| 48 | If I went in , he would insist on cutting my hair himself and embarrass me by telling those waiting that he could remember cutting my first curls . |
| 49 | Doubtless while our noble lords and masters stand back and applaud themselves for winning yet another battle . ’ |
| 50 | What kinda religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about ? ’ |
| 51 | Staff have formed a co-operative and hoped to buy the hostel and run it with backing from Durham County Council . |
| 52 | We pay lip service to that treaty and breach it by spending £10,000 million on Trident nuclear submarines that carry nuclear weapons . |
| 53 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 54 | And damn him for daring to pry into my affairs and for subtly mocking my singular state ! |
| 55 | I do n't handle stolen property , and damn you for suggesting I do ! |
| 56 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 57 | The revolutionary intelligentsia , Plekhanov urged , must abandon its romantic and terrorist traditions , adopt the scientific perspective of Marxism , and devote itself to assisting in the development of a powerful revolutionary organization of the proletariat . |
| 58 | He drew their attention to the route map on the opposite wall and set them to counting how long it took between stops , a favourite exercise that was considered by the twins to be the height of intellectual prowess but risked serious brain damage to everyone within hearing distance . |
| 59 | Some animals you cut turfs of little bits of turf out and you put in the , in the corner of the box and they , they lick that and amuse themselves by eating it bit by bit . |
| 60 | We expect the people to be like them and presuppose it in dealing with the people themselves . |