Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Smales 's try and Fox 's fourth goal tied the scores again with 10 minutes to go and it took Fox 's drop to separate the sides . |
| 2 | But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time . |
| 3 | It must be right for auditors to audit and for regulators to regulate and I do not think that it helps the argument for there to be an overlap in responsibilities and in some way , as I say , to turn auditors into snoopers and narks er er and make more supine one 's er regulators . |
| 4 | It remains to be seen how a rhino , which takes many years to evolve and which has evolved with a horn , will learn to survive without one . |
| 5 | There are plenty of places to visit and lots to see and do . |
| 6 | There were four short reviews to do and I dropped off between three and four . |
| 7 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 8 | Phetam had been stolen from Ardakke by someone who had no shortage of credits to spend and who had access to the secretive practices of diplomats and Emissaries . |
| 9 | Finally Kaas ordered his torturers to stop and they dragged Adam down to the wooden chalet and threw him in with Billie . |
| 10 | Now , learning how to punctuate dialogue is not easy because there are a lot of things to remember and I want to see whether or not you can do this okay . |
| 11 | They cost about we reckon seventeen to twenty five pounds to buy and they have to be fitted to a door one and three quarter inches thick . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've got things to do and I 've got a lesson . ’ |
| 13 | I 've got things to do and I need your help to do them . ’ |
| 14 | I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be |
| 15 | I want to encourage such customers to complain and I want us to resolve those complaints quickly . |
| 16 | The use of forms helps to standardize the recording procedures , and also serves as a reminder of what observations to make and what to look for . |
| 17 | He does n't ask for reasons to believe and he does n't inquire into what is involved . |
| 18 | Another 199 rooms to go and we open on Thursday ! ’ |
| 19 | Ten yards to go and he heard the driver of the Discovery accelerate away from the roadblock . |
| 20 | Bill , 76 , asked Street chiefs to investigate and they discovered that episodes of the popular show screened in Britain five years ago are now topping the ratings in Thailand and they have made Percy a national hero . |
| 21 | I was the first of my family and of our group of friends to split and I did n't get a whole lot of sympathy . |
| 22 | We are aware that this is not an easy task for colleges to undertake and we hope to provide assistance for those colleges which are selected to develop pilot proposals for full validation . |
| 23 | It is much more a question of knowledge and awareness of which foods to eat and which to avoid than it is of following blindly someone else 's strict regime . |
| 24 | And one day he shave it off , it took his wife three hours to notice and it took his mum all day to notice |
| 25 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 26 | Okay , so I 've got thirty four remaining ones to mark and I 've got er all day tomorrow to do that and some on Thursday and possibly some time tonight . |
| 27 | I expect you 're tired — you generally have a sherry and a nap when you come home at this time , and , besides , there are those papers to correct and I hoped you 'd help me unpack . |
| 28 | But the mass media select which events to cover and they take decisions about how those events will be presented ; they therefore not only inform us about ( a small selection of ) events but their presentation of those events will also consist of their explanations and interpretations of those events . |
| 29 | I have my spirits to confront and he has his realities . |