Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the company has achieved segmentation it can more clearly concentrate and aim its promotional effort at a particular target market . |
| 2 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 3 | It is the manager 's responsibility to decide what and how to communicate and to adapt his approach in the light of experience . |
| 4 | It is the possession of a common culture and the ability to communicate and pass it on to others that distinguishes the human being from other animals . |
| 5 | Guinness has an arrangement with Carlton and United Breweries , a division of Fosters , to brew and distribute its beer products in Australia . |
| 6 | During the heyday of the fair it was the right of every villager to brew and sell his own beer , and he advertised the fact by hanging a branch or piece of greenery over his door . |
| 7 | But if you accept that carbon dioxide is a much More insidious threat and nuclear power is the one major supplier of energy that does not produce it , the issue begins to turn not so much on the dangerous unacceptibility of reactors but on how you regulate and make them safe and ensure that their fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |
| 8 | The ability to modify and alter what has gone before is therefore a necessary part of any system . |
| 9 | It is also seeking to modify and extend its product range . |
| 10 | However , to achieve these it is necessary to modify and amplify their proposals . |
| 11 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 12 | ACCUSER : She says Mia beat and cursed her |
| 13 | Blindly , Alan ran to his room , where he beat and punched his bed and cried aloud in a rage like a child . |
| 14 | He 's a kind of Giant Holdfast who both loves and terrorizes his children . |
| 15 | I mean , she 's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Immediately the archer fish has fired , it swims rapidly to the point where its prey will fall into the water , ready to catch and eat it . |
| 18 | Louis and the two girls set out to catch and resecure him . |
| 19 | We need to catch and hold their attention . |
| 20 | They seem almost magical in themselves and once incorporated in a story they are guaranteed to weave a web to catch and hold us . |
| 21 | There can be little doubt that his tactics constituted an invitation to the French to catch and challenge him . |
| 22 | Using the Windows software supplied with the printer it is possible to setup , configure and maintain your printer from the comfort of your PC screen — no more fiddling about with mysteriously labelled buttons and switches , or peering hopelessly at a badly lit LCD panel . |
| 23 | ‘ Black people are the original people of the Earth , no one could exist on the planet without us and we must wake up , to struggle and do what we have to do to come into power , ’ announces Chester , striding across the stage , as the audience cheers . |
| 24 | The chimps ' individuality has always delighted and fascinated her , and Jomeo and Gigi , two full-blown eccentrics , are given a chapter each in Through a Window . |
| 25 | Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life . |
| 26 | Corbett went back to his notes about Lady Eleanor 's death , twisting and turning them . |
| 27 | Adam went back to his private world as the plane bucked across the sky , the unseen hands of the veering winds twisting and turning it as it flew towards Hanover . |
| 28 | Her fingers worked at a small lace handkerchief , twisting and untwisting it in an extremity of nervous tension . |
| 29 | They now start to harass the bigger bird , calling incessantly and loudly , twisting and jerking their bodies and even making mock attacks . |
| 30 | The lean wind grips him , twisting and pulling his hair . |