Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The first dozen pages of one of Simenon 's novels , Maigret 's Pickpocket , just describe , for instance , Maigret riding a bus to work and one is simply gripped . ) |
| 2 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 3 | But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification . |
| 4 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 5 | Alison 's problems appear to be resolved and she is now living near Clint in Carmel and studying acting in Los Angeles . |
| 6 | ‘ The public is treated with contempt by the art establishment , and there is a huge gap between what the public likes and wants and what is officially accepted as art . |
| 7 | By so phrasing each paragraph and bringing each incident to a proper conclusion , Nijinska gives both dancers and audience time to consider what has been done and what is yet to happen . |
| 8 | The two companies ' more obvious synergies , claims le Quement , extend to design and he 's already given free access to Renault 's Billancourt design centre to all Volvo 's senior designers . |
| 9 | You know I 've been I would n't bother showing them some that worked , I 'll always pick the case that had some hiccup on it , so the basic skill you were trying to show them never worked out , you know what I mean and it 's well do n't worry about that , if it was a normal case |
| 10 | This female mallard was brought into Slimbridge yesterday totally paralysed and she 's already showing signs of recovery . |
| 11 | He says he does n't know what happened and he 's never received anything officially in writing from anyone . |
| 12 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 13 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 14 | If it is extremely fortunate , it may become a double-suckler by finding a female whose pup has just died and who is still producing milk . |
| 15 | The grass is then sown and it is periodically burnt thereafter to improve palatability . |
| 16 | Prime 's Natick , Massachusetts headquarters has been sold and it is now headquartered at the old Computervision base in Bedford , Massachusetts . |
| 17 | The greatest problem , particularly for surgeons , is the patient whom an operation has not helped and who is now dying . |
| 18 | To be concerned simply for Jesus ' message , a message which anyone could have preached and which is now acknowledged quite independently of the person who preached it , is not to hold a Christian position . |
| 19 | I get the impression he agrees with what I 'm saying and he 's just shaking his head at the sheer extent of human deviousness and spite . |
| 20 | Luckily for Paul a donor was found and he 's now made an almost complete recovery . |
| 21 | It 's happening now , it 's always progressing and it 's always going on and you 're never going to reach an end point , you 're never going to reach a final point , whereas with something like history , I find it 's interesting , but you 're always going over and analysing what 's happened , it 's that much more backward looking , whereas science applied has got more constructive . |
| 22 | But she tones down her performance as the show progresses and one is eventually won over . |
| 23 | I know , but it 's switched and it 's still working ? |
| 24 | Human beings as we know are sexually dimorphic and tha that figure seems to fit the er the , the pattern , but erm women have a lot of characteristics that are peculiar to them , like for example erm more youthful looks , women will retain more youthful looks longer than men do and it is normally regarded as important and a lot of women spend an awful lot of money in the modern society on trying to remain erm looking er looking youthful . |
| 25 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 26 | The two clubs have obviously sorted out the wide gap between their respective ideas of the compensation Stoke should receive and it 's now become clear that Macari will be allowed to negotiate his new terms WITH Stoke City 's approval . |
| 27 | New uses for aspirin keep emerging and it 's now thought to help prevent heart attacks , strokes , arthritis and even some forms of cancer . |
| 28 | Moreover , this distinctive structural location has been remarkably resilient to change and it is commonly argued that schooling plays a big part in the reproduction over time of the position of black people in British society . |
| 29 | It 's too late now , the DHSS will be shut and there 's naff-all to eat in the camp except lentils . ’ |
| 30 | His dip could n't save his fight to be elected and he 's now stepped down . |