Example sentences of "[vb -s] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he got ‘ caught ’ , this one could n't be brushed off so easily and now , ten months later , he was in a situation that he both loves and hates . |
| 2 | He 's a kind of Giant Holdfast who both loves and terrorizes his children . |
| 3 | A priest has a nephew whom he loves and wants to do well . |
| 4 | If a woman can make an excuse for a man she loves and wants to hang on to , she will . |
| 5 | So he is not particularly after a physical relationship , but someone who loves and cares for him alone , Miranda , however , thinks his reason is that ‘ his pleasure is keeping me prisoner . |
| 6 | Being forced to uproot from a place one loves and has made one 's own . |
| 7 | A person who loves and collects books . |
| 8 | I mean , she 's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him . |
| 9 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 10 | This is because each agency has to fight for its share of the overall intelligence budget and in the process exaggerates and distorts its reports so as to pander to the whims of those who hold the purse-strings . |
| 11 | The four types are the foundations of the modern phyla , the most basic subdivisions of the animal kingdom , although the articulates and radiates have been broken up as the true range of diversity has become apparent . |
| 12 | And all day long it glows and shines and holds |
| 13 | Set against this picture and parallel to the theory that accompanies and supports it is the idea of the possibility of order as a creation of social instruments ordained for that very task , namely teachers , police , social workers , and perhaps , in the last resort , parents . |
| 14 | Thus the Earl of Nottingham , Secretary of State from 1702 to 1704 , and a chief advocate of such a strategy , wrote in 1703 that " we shall never have any decisive success nor be able to hold out a war against France but by making it a sea War , and such a sea War as accompanies and supports attempts on land " . |
| 15 | software for computer systems with disk drives which supervises and controls the running of programs . |
| 16 | In simple terms , the surgeon supervises and controls the robot from a computer terminal , using information that he receives from sensors at the tool-end of the robot , known as the end-effector . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the first type relies on the information provided by the second which polishes , refines and leads to a redefinition of the problem . |
| 18 | It opens up into a fantastic cavern , which glistens and sparkles as though lit by an invisible Light . |
| 19 | It is this mixture of compliance and argumentativeness which not only bores and irritates Belville but actually drives him back to his old pursuits — drinking and lechery . |
| 20 | his colleague replies , and everyone hums and tuts . |
| 21 | ORCHESTRE : [ Rousseau gives ten reasons why the Paris Opéra orchestra makes the least effect of any European orchestra , the seventh of which is ] the unendurable noise of the baton which covers and deadens the whole effect of the ensemble . |
| 22 | Make a note of topics that the book usefully covers and keep It safe . |
| 23 | He frowns and stares straight ahead , blows a furious klaxon on the horn . |
| 24 | It looks out where the river widens and splits at Vasilyevskiy Island . |
| 25 | Her lips move in an anguished chewing motion , so that her mouth widens and closes , a fevered sea-urchin . |
| 26 | Comma Oil & Chemicals , which blends and manufactures oils and lubricants , replaced its steam heated oven with induction drum heaters , so reducing the heating time for drums of chemical additives from eight hours to as little as two hours . |
| 27 | What matters is what happens when the individual , who incorporates his past , incorporates and transforms the divisions which are part of that past . |
| 28 | Thus , for example , all versions of positivism which rely upon an exhaustive sources thesis might be refuted by the undoubted circumstance that criminal law incorporates and generates moral standards . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , such third-party regulation often incorporates and consolidates employment terms which have already been agreed via prior negotiations between unions and employers . |
| 30 | Locke 's claim that prior to experience the mind is ‘ white paper , void of all characters ’ , and that all its ideas , the materials of knowledge , come from that source , had been made earlier by Gassendi , but he defends and explains it at much greater length . |