Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing poor countries produce similar commodities , and encouraging them to increase their exports has flooded the market . |
| 2 | A lead team of managers and trade union members oversees the whole programme but the emphasis is on involving employees and encouraging them to solve their own problems . |
| 3 | Her unfortunate gaffe over tea made it impossible for Elisabeth to offer any excuse when Mitzi Baum accosted her on the stairs on the way to dinner and asked her to share her table . |
| 4 | She then checked that the skin preparations were complete and asked him to remove his dentures . |
| 5 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 6 | He did it in style , preparing the ground by a speech to the Legislative Assembly in which he paid tribute to Gandhi 's sincerity and asked him to recognize his own . |
| 7 | We asked them if they had vomited or abused laxatives and asked them to record their weight on a weekly basis . |
| 8 | As she gaped at him he went on calmly , ‘ I told them you would be staying at the palazzo and asked them to have your luggage repacked and sent over here . ’ |
| 9 | He set up an organisation called BSC Industry , which had the prime task of counselling redundant steel workers , retraining them and helping them to redirect their careers and , in many instances , set up their own small businesses . |
| 10 | It snuggles up to something familiar then pulls the rug out and dares you to keep your balance . |
| 11 | ‘ New entrants put pressure on existing companies and make them change their existing practices , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Those who have had facts imparted to them effectively will pass the tests and those who have not will fail to pass the tests , and when the lists are read out on Speech Day the incompetence of the bad fact-imparters will be revealed to the world and this will act as a goad and make them impart their facts better in future … . ’ |
| 13 | She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies . |
| 14 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 15 | own kids have grown up so it does n't matter to them , just live back in days and make you spend your money the way they tell you and live how you they tell you . |
| 16 | Earlier he ends chapter three with a hint of humour saying that many people are not what they seem despite the appearances and begs her to try her utmost not to be worse than she appears , concluding : Here the word " form " is ambiguous referring to his writing as well as to a life-style . |
| 17 | and seeing who gets their share . |
| 18 | America 's besetting sin is its preference for acting alone , writing its own trade laws and using them to break its way into other people 's markets . |
| 19 | Caroline felt a stir of anger deep within her breast , not at this artless , naïve girl but at Nicolo , Nicolo with his phony morality , his counterfeit Old World manners — his way of finding a woman 's heart and using it to suit his own needs , whether she was eighteen or twenty-four or seventy … |
| 20 | The point is to be specific about income and to plan it to meet your maximum budget . |
| 21 | Very gently , as to a wild animal , I reached out my hand and made her turn her head . |
| 22 | And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions . |
| 23 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 24 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 25 | The room seemed very quin as he closed the volume and selected another and made himself turn its unseen pages for ten more minutes . |
| 26 | She looked up and made herself meet his eyes . |
| 27 | Then everything came back in a wave of anguish and she ducked her head under the water and made herself hold her eyes open until they smarted with pain . |
| 28 | This simple observation surprised us and made us change our ways of communicating with social workers . |
| 29 | He will look for the nine natural colours found at the root which is the healthiest part of the hair and combine them to produce your personal Style Colour . |
| 30 | The boy gazed back sweetly , forbearing from touching anything , and daring anyone to challenge his intentions . |