Example sentences of "and [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you believe in a drogue , or sea-anchor , up-hook , scratch-in , and rig one , then ride it out and ride with it and tell me when you sight London Bridge . ’ … |
| 32 | He shot people in the back and expected nothing less for himself . |
| 33 | And expected everyone else to do the same . |
| 34 | Our classical conclusion is , therefore , the familiar and expected one . |
| 35 | But , if it 's only hanging by a thread , let it fall apart and build something new from the components . |
| 36 | After some time of searching for the right facility they have had to go back and build something anew . |
| 37 | To knock down and build something new . ’ |
| 38 | Good girl ! " he commended Lally as kindly as he would any keen bitch , and asked nothing further . |
| 39 | Curtis telephoned the seamen 's shelter and asked somebody to find Titch and get him to ring back . |
| 40 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
| 41 | Raoul looked everywhere and asked everybody . |
| 42 | So you did n't have a letter there and then and asked something about was it put into writing . |
| 43 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 44 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 45 | Mr Sisulu , now 77 , was six years older than Mr Mandela and became something of a mentor to him on his arrival in Johannesburg in 1941 . |
| 46 | Ornamental grasses also featured here and became something of a talking point , especially Carex comans ‘ Bronze Form ’ . |
| 47 | When he had recovered from his ordeal , Ciparis was able to tell of what had happened — and he went on telling the story for the rest of his life , for he was given a free pardon , joined a travelling circus , and became something of a celebrity . |
| 48 | Writers have frequently attributed to cross-national research the important advantage of throwing light on one 's own country and helping one to understand it better , undermining the ‘ in-bred prejudices or preconceived ideas ’ that attend a parochial approach ( e.g. Schregle 1981 : 28 ) . |
| 49 | It 's all right , honey , I do n't really talk like that , I do it to irritate Matt , though it usually does n't because he 's so thick-skinned and thinks everyone else talks like that anyway , so I guess I do it for my own private amusement . |
| 50 | He keeps his nose to the grindstone and thinks everyone else should . |
| 51 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 52 | Stanley had the saw running — we used to sell a few logs in them days — when all of a sudden he hears an explosion and thinks somebody 's having a go at his precious Lagonda . |
| 53 | The plain fact is , constructing a spreadsheet can be a time consuming business , and editing one can be a morass of potential errors . |
| 54 | Moët et Chandon has the leading brand in most world markets and supplies one in four of all bottles of champagne exported from F rance . |
| 55 | obviously identifiable it 's a very effective one and also the structured thought patterns idea er before you go into something to actually sit down and prepare something er your thoughts in a developing from there er it 's a very simple thing to do but very effective . |
| 56 | He had that irritating manner of believing all was well and trusting everyone completely . |
| 57 | He shook two cigarettes from a paper packet , lit them , and placed one gently between her lips . |
| 58 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 59 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 60 | A trigger operates the accelerator and produces anything from a gentle breeze to a 140mph gust . |