Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the sky clouds over , the surface broods , pouts and stamps its foot like a child forced to spend its holidays indoors . ’ |
| 2 | She was glad of Everthorpe 's guidance , though she disliked his manners and resented his evident desire to stage-manage her arrival at Pringle 's . |
| 3 | ‘ Now , now , ’ Miss Louise called back sharply , ‘ mind your manners and let them in . ’ |
| 4 | They had such nice manners and treated me like one of their own , so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones . |
| 5 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 6 | The ensuing exchange over the months turned the whole cast of Balzac 's Comédie Humaine into Katherine 's familiars and gave her an awareness of greed and ambition , love and betrayal far beyond her years . |
| 7 | In health care , government can pool risks and use its muscle to keep down costs better than any private provider . |
| 8 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
| 9 | This practical 2-day course highlights the risks and provides you with the knowledge to contain them . |
| 10 | They had no aspirations to be patrons of the arts and to regale themselves like proletarian Ludwig IIs with grand opera or private performances of the classics . |
| 11 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 12 | The avowed programme of Montjoie was to find the link between various arts and to investigate their common tendencies , and Canudo invented the term ‘ cérébrisme ’ to describe this attitude : ‘ Montjoie is the mouthpiece of Cerebrist art , for Cerebrism , according to its own definition , embraces and explains the entire artistic evolution of our age during the past forty years , and in the widest sense , being an aesthetic that is indissolubly cerebral and sensual — against all sentimentality in art and life . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ said Lee , tipping out the dregs and wiping his mouth with his sleeve . |
| 14 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 15 | It is easy for journalists to sit behind their word-processors and criticize what others are doing . |
| 16 | Some people buy rare or difficult to keep animals as pets and donate them to zoos . |
| 17 | To make it easier , you could buy little marzipan animals instead of moulding them yourself — however , if you do make your own , it might be fun to make them in the shape of the children 's pets and pipe their names on to them . |
| 18 | As the queue of would-be emigrants handed in their names , Nicholas Winton spent every spare hour collecting guarantors and publicising his cause . |
| 19 | Keith has a lot of talent and I think David used to go to him and Keith would rearrange the songs and make them sound good with his bass lines . |
| 20 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 21 | For instance , how to groom a horse , how to harness it and how to walk up and down the long rigs alongside your favourite ploughman , listening to his songs and watching his work with the horses . |
| 22 | They worked and waited , singing their Ukrainian songs and writing their Ukrainian poems , nursing their history , and began over the years to drift into the city . |
| 23 | But they were very friendly , and sang songs and told her many stories about their lives . |
| 24 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 25 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 26 | Consequently most of it is scored for orchestral accompaniment : to extract the songs and perform them with piano , either in a performance-art format , as does Angelina Réaux , or as a Liederabend like Carole Farley , is to present a one-dimensional aspect of the music and an ultimate disservice to the composer . |
| 27 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 28 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 29 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 30 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |