Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 32 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 33 | She could ring Jamie and suggest that he write something for it . |
| 34 | Liz Headleand suspects that Alix Bowen is in love with Nicholas Manning , and wonders if she knows it . |
| 35 | Brian Bowen suspects that Alix Bowen is in love with Nicholas Manning , and wonders if she knows it . |
| 36 | Sometimes Frankie would curl up in the big seat and sleep until she shook him awake shortly before the second feature came to an end . |
| 37 | Mick Ronson , Woody Woodmansey and myself would be making backing tracks , having got the brief from David — it was E chord for 16 bars then an A chord for 4 bars and a B chord for 2 bars — and we were just banging out these backing tracks , and David would come into the studio , if we could tear him away from Angela for long enough and say whether he liked it or not . |
| 38 | I think I speak for everybody and say that we wish you well in this project . |
| 39 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 40 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 41 | Eva admits she " may have been a bit impetuous in those early days " , but she was always willing to learn , and apologise when she realised she had overstepped the mark . |
| 42 | He reminded himself of the details and exulted as he saw what he could do with it . |
| 43 | She was ‘ extremely upset ’ and shouted that she knew they would not believe her and left the workshop . |
| 44 | ‘ Spends hours , usually late at night , gasping and wheezing until it seems he 'll collapse … |
| 45 | A woman was singing popular songs , and the holidaymakers were drinking and laughing as they ate their steaks . |
| 46 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 47 | Either I accompany you to your room and wait while you have your shower and do whatever else you feel necessary before we leave , or I wait here , in the lobby , and you give me your word that you will join me within the hour . ’ |
| 48 | Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber . |
| 49 | ‘ Let's just take a look first and wait till we see what 's inside . ’ |
| 50 | He would show them examples of different sorts of pages and wait until they found one they liked . |
| 51 | But I would suggest to you that we need to press Rentakil and say , you know you the conditions of the guarantee we feel we 'd comply with , and wait until we get anything back from the solicitors , before we do anything else . |
| 52 | You might just and wait until you get your soup |
| 53 | Due to being hideosly shy and a little worse for the drink I did n't want to go up to some complete stranger and act like I knew him . |
| 54 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 55 | He became devoted most of all to Mary Evans , the eldest daughter , and believed that he loved her . |
| 56 | During the First World War , a mongrel called Prince missed his soldier owner so much that he hitched a lift across the channel and searched until he found his master in the trenches — a journey of several hundred miles . |
| 57 | ‘ We can go back through the Wolfwood and hope that we reach our original road again , ’ he said . |
| 58 | Finally may I thank all those who supported the event which saw five main line steam locomotives operating over a preserved main line and hope that they found their visit enjoyable . |
| 59 | ‘ If he has not come round , we will put the TV on anyway and hope that it brings him out of it . |
| 60 | The ordinary German people could only sit and watch while he reduced their homes , possessions and friends to rubble and a tangled , indistinguishable mess . |