Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the sky clouds over , the surface broods , pouts and stamps its foot like a child forced to spend its holidays indoors . ’ |
| 2 | She pants and pouts and poses and scweams . |
| 3 | Clearly this artist was going to keep me fully entertained as she peered alternately at me and my picture , producing a range of squints , pouts and grimaces that Rowan Atkinson might envy . |
| 4 | Emelia Kanthack commented that she ‘ always approached my East End patients with my very best manners and extended the same little courteous considerations to them that I would have served towards a lady ’ . |
| 5 | She was glad of Everthorpe 's guidance , though she disliked his manners and resented his evident desire to stage-manage her arrival at Pringle 's . |
| 6 | ‘ Now , now , ’ Miss Louise called back sharply , ‘ mind your manners and let them in . ’ |
| 7 | This may be enough to make him lose interest but , if he persists , discourage him briefly and matter-of-factly , explaining that such words show bad manners and offend some people , who will like him less if he insists on using them . |
| 8 | We recovered our manners and began a series of , ‘ Thank yous ’ , and , ‘ You are a good man , Mahmoud ’ , and , within seconds , Terry had it tuned to the BBC World Service and its theme , ‘ Lili Bolero ’ . |
| 9 | Support for Scott could have come from Stanley 's Parliamentary Under Secretary , Henry Baillie , who was a personal friend of Manners and had been a supporter of Young England . |
| 10 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 11 | They had such nice manners and treated me like one of their own , so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones . |
| 12 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 13 | When Joe visits London , it is a failure because Pip is embarrassed by Joe 's manners and begins to think of him as common , he then begins to neglect his background and the people who used to mean a lot to him . |
| 14 | Mistress Southwell was a Roman Catholic and with several others sought to surround the events of the Queen Elizabeth 's last illness and death with ill-omens and to suggest that she had not died in a state of grace ’ . |
| 15 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 16 | He planted trees in carefully placed clumps and had two huge lakes created near the palace . |
| 17 | P. procumbens forms neat clumps and has scented flowers , while P. axillaris tends to develop into a small shrub . |
| 18 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |
| 19 | The ensuing exchange over the months turned the whole cast of Balzac 's Comédie Humaine into Katherine 's familiars and gave her an awareness of greed and ambition , love and betrayal far beyond her years . |
| 20 | The sheriff also suggested the prison authorities look again at cell design to try to eradicate any potential risks and prevent prisoners blocking observation holes . |
| 21 | In health care , government can pool risks and use its muscle to keep down costs better than any private provider . |
| 22 | What our children need from us is reassurance , so that they can live safely , knowing the real risks and knowing where they can go if they are worried . |
| 23 | For instance , The Health and Safety at Work Act ( 1974 ) and its associated regulations , impose duties on persons who design , manufacture , import or supply articles for use at work to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that they are safe , and to test them , provide proper information , carry out research with a view to the elimination of risks and to carry out other duties . |
| 24 | Many police officers will want to remind the Home Secretary as he prepares his response to the Sheahy report that they take special risks and deserve special treatment . |
| 25 | If people are made aware of the risks and volunteer , then that 's seems to be their own free choice , and if that is what they wish to do , then that it seen to be a perfectly fair about going of course it would be completely immoral to test a drug on somebody who was n't aware of what was going on . |
| 26 | In this , insurers have to pool good and bad risks and charge a standard premium to all subscribers . |
| 27 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |
| 28 | Encourage research and development in the recognition , assessment and management of engineering risks and disseminate the findings . |
| 29 | take risks and make ‘ exposed ’ decisions which go outside existing or accepted constraints |
| 30 | A willingness to take risks and make mistakes in the process is , however , necessary . |