Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he appears on television or in the media , he pooh-poohs and belittles it , and gives the impression that we are exaggerating the problem . |
| 2 | The more relevant LIFESPAN forms and outputs you will be seeing are shown in Figure 2.4 . |
| 3 | I hate to say you should be American , because of course , no-one should , but this one single evening of Great British Music — Spiritualized , Curve , The Jesus And Mary Chain , in that fixed order — is three and a quarter hours that compounds and crystallises everything that is vibrant and clever and downright sex-mad- filthy about what squares call ‘ alternative ’ . |
| 4 | I 'm a three-year-old who hates shots and squeezes her eyes tight at the sight of a needle . |
| 5 | Jancey strolls up smiling and squeezes my arm . |
| 6 | I go back and sit down again , and she takes a hold of my hand and squeezes it like she 's saying sorry or summat . |
| 7 | He takes my hand and squeezes it hard . |
| 8 | EMMA reaches across the table and squeezes his hand . |
| 9 | So takes it up and knits it on the back . |
| 10 | He 's a kind of Giant Holdfast who both loves and terrorizes his children . |
| 11 | When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy . |
| 12 | Conversely , when a nation begins to see itself historically and destroys its mythology , the result is secularization and spiritual malaise . |
| 13 | Svidrigailov possesses a body , and destroys it . |
| 14 | ‘ If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it , then the company which is left will escape . ’ |
| 15 | Iago not only knows no altruism in himself , he blocks and destroys it in others : |
| 16 | The laser heats up and destroys it . |
| 17 | Iago 's technique of holding off exacerbates Othello 's curiosity , arouses his suspicions , and destroys his trust in appearance , in his own perception of reality . |
| 18 | To Eddie , the well-being of his ward is his priority at first , but this grows out of proportion until he is blindly obsessed and destroys his relationship with her . |
| 19 | What upsets and angers my hon. Friends is that the Department of Energy is praying in aid the proposed European Community directive on working time as a justification for that change . |
| 20 | The captain then signs the bills of lading and precedes his signature with a statement that shipment is subject to charter party conditions . |
| 21 | ( Some pocket calculators will do this ; otherwise one obtains a random integer of 5 or 6 digits from a random number table and precedes it with a decimal point . ) |
| 22 | ‘ You 're a good girl , ’ she says and pats my hand . |
| 23 | He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become . |
| 24 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 25 | With the help of donations and grants we have restored some of the lost opening hours , continued to purchase books and carried out urgent conservation work ; and we celebrated twenty years of exhibitions at the Heinz Gallery . |
| 26 | The lease for Southwell City Football Club , forty five pounds , our waste paper income , about five hundred pounds in the calendar year , er V A T refund about three thousand pounds , and grants I 've put down five thousand pound income for the year . |
| 27 | ‘ Upright ’ is a threat signal , in which the gull stands upright and points its bill downwards and towards the other gull it is threatening ( Figure 6.10 ) . |
| 28 | Swings her legs and points her feet |
| 29 | Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard . |
| 30 | I buy her lots of tapes , and she plays and plays them . |