Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would involve identifying those who could satisfy criteria or competence and reliability , and encouraging them by removing some of the administrative restrictions now applying . |
| 2 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 3 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |
| 4 | As such , it is vital for getting the community involved , getting people on the side of wild-life conservation , and dissuading them from poaching . |
| 5 | I approached him and asked him about caddying for him , and I was very pleased when he said yes . |
| 6 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 7 | He has never stayed in any one place longer than a couple of years and prides himself on knowing when to go . |
| 8 | Once the Highland mansion of the Keiller family of Dundee , the 4-star Craigendarroch Hotel has all the charm of an old country house … and prides itself on offering the high standards of yesteryear . |
| 9 | It boasts a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and prides itself on offering a high standard of service . |
| 10 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
| 11 | During the Falklands War , Mrs Thatcher was punctilious about keeping full Cabinet informed about major developments , and consulted them before implementing the bigger decisions . |
| 12 | European mercenaries ruling the Comoros Islands expelled 11 foreign correspondents after seizing their notebooks , film and cassette tapes and accusing them of inciting anti-government demonstrations , said one of the reporters . |
| 13 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 14 | A new book criticising Hollywood 's current output and accusing it of undermining traditional values has provoked fierce debate in the US . |
| 15 | It 's more of a trick to see if we can get artistic freedom within a business structure — to see if we can create things and sell them without charging five times our cost . ’ |
| 16 | Try to be relaxed , confident , pleasantly enthusiastic , and sell yourself without bragging . |
| 17 | When I was scared in the middle of the night at home , I 'd lie and comfort myself by talking in whispers to Somebody . |
| 18 | I ask this council to ignore the recommendation from the housing committee and to support me in passing this amendment . |
| 19 | He gladly accepted a lift back to Stromness on Venturous and repaid me by filling in some details for my report on the development of the terminal and the Piper Oil Field which would be supplying it . |
| 20 | But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position . |
| 21 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 23 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 24 | She turned on Walter Ash and reviled him for allowing her to hope , and indeed , despite the final outcome , it was his dangerous encouragement of this scheme that prefaced her final disillusion with him . |
| 25 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 26 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 27 | Baldwin said , ‘ I thank God for your decision , ’ and applied himself to mediating in the coal dispute which continued independently . |
| 28 | It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them . |
| 29 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 30 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |