Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge gave Vernage five life sentences and recommended that he serve at least 25 years . |
| 2 | And she 's asked us to go and stay and I said to John I Would n't stay in that bed again |
| 3 | The executives agreed and asked that I act as the facilitator . |
| 4 | Early in 1159 Henry II travelled south through Poitou and Saintonge until he came to Blaye on the Gironde . |
| 5 | The kangaroo court decided the punishment must fit the crime and ruled that he stay in his cell during the jailhouse comedy . |
| 6 | Little Billy recognised Don Mini riding on a fine jay and he was waving and cheering as he flew alongside them . |
| 7 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 8 | He started by going to unofficial advisers and seeing whether they agreed with his official adviser . |
| 9 | All she got was a glimpse of the empty Pyrenees , and the tiny concentrated ball of the rising sun , alternately revealed and hidden as they crossed from one face to another with first one peak throwing its dark bulk between them and then another . |
| 10 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 11 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 12 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 13 | My boyfriend said he would stay at home and be the househusband and look after the children and do co co , the cleaning and cooking if I stayed at work . |
| 14 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
| 15 | She sought his mouth again , wrapping her arms around his neck , offering and receiving a kiss so fierce , impatient and demanding that she clung to him and she lost her balance , fell against him , felt him gather her up against the inflammatory hardness of his body and lift her on to the bed . |
| 16 | Daemons howled and gibbered as they surged through the carnage . |
| 17 | Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry . |
| 18 | If you have saved the Carrion attack until now ( see Dead Wings in the previous section ) , there is a chance that the adventurers will slip and fall if they engage in any combat . |
| 19 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 20 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 21 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 22 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 23 | Schulz considers a number of explanations for the phenomenon she describes , and concludes that it arises from men 's prejudice against women and their fear of women 's ‘ natural ’ power or biological superiority . |
| 24 | We must face the issue seriously and not in the way in which the Prime Minister faced the issue at Harare when he said that he would write off some of the debts in return for the acceptance of an economic model imposed by the International Monetary Fund , and say that there has to be a write-off of debt . |
| 25 | Man himself has to decide on the nature of ‘ goodness ’ , and to accept that it has to be found within the life on earth as it actually is . |
| 26 | Sting and build as they do from a habit |
| 27 | They all laughed and joked until they got to Holborn . |
| 28 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 29 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 30 | She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ‘ Madame Eloise — Hair ’ on it . |