Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 12 ) The histories of cease and quit are less varied but the senses found for them in earlier times help explain some of the semantic differences that will be described below . |
| 2 | Parents who have watched their children grow and develop are just as likely to have insights into the development of their child as the teacher who has taught for a couple of years . |
| 3 | In the presence of an overt direct object , hide and conceal are cognitive synonyms — John hid the money is equivalent to John concealed the money but hide is not replaceable by conceal in , for instance , Go and hide ! |
| 4 | Make and have are at the top of the binding hierarchy and take the " highly non-verbal " bare infinitive ; order is lower on the scale and takes the to infinitive ; next comes insist , which is followed by a subordinate clause containing a finite subjunctive form , and then think , construed with a subordinate clause in the indicative . |
| 5 | Equitable Life , Royal Life and Save & Prosper are just three of the major companies with school fee plans . |
| 6 | LOOK and LISTEN are key ideas . |
| 7 | Erm up then you can turn round when the smaller people come and say are carving up the price , you can turn round and say , Oh no they 're not that 's the price and that 's the price . |
| 8 | Willy 's synthetic abstractions which generalize and falsify are countered by her analytic and critical re-writing of Herodotus . |