Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , and the free labour conflict conducted by the Shipping Federation , troubled him less , however , than the Federation 's malicious attempts to destroy his credibility and that of the union by maligning his character and labelling him a criminal . |
| 2 | An estimated 3,000 delegates from one faction claiming to represent the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) gathered in Nairobi on Sept. 4 and unanimously elected Jaramogi Oginga Odinga as FORD chairman and designated him the party 's presidential candidate . |
| 3 | Would you care for it and tend it every day |
| 4 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The learned judge left the case to the jury , remarking upon the tender years of the girl , her situation under the care and authority of the prisoner and his wife , and the authority and influence which the prisoner had over her in the absence of his wife . |
| 6 | Meredith asked , and lent him a handkerchief . |
| 7 | Just four years after Charles 's death , Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims , who had been an important political figure throughout Charles 's reign ( though not consistently close to him ) , wrote a treatise , The Government of the Palace , for the young King Carloman , Charles 's grandson , and lent it an air of authority by claiming to incorporate the work of Abbot Adalard of Corbie , who had died nearly sixty years before . |
| 8 | He peered closer at me and asked what an Englishman was doing in Paris . |
| 9 | You 're an idiot if you submit an article or a piece of any kind to a magazine , to a newspaper , without actually having looked at it , and studied it , and asked yourselves the question , ‘ What sort of house style is it ? |
| 10 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 11 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 12 | Their leader grabbed the bridle of Corbett 's horse and asked him a question he could not understand . |
| 13 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 14 | For Thames , a joint operation with the BBC is seen as a commercial coup and guarantees its a future , at least in the short-term . |
| 15 | We also had to shear and dip them every year and friends would come to help . |
| 16 | Should you want to do some withy and teasel research for yourself , you might visit their willow and wetland centre in Stoke St Gregory where they grow 50 acres of willow and harvest it every winter , when the plants are dormant and the rods measure 8 feet . |
| 17 | Should she do a U-turn and sell him the house ? she wondered . |
| 18 | He thought he 'd find a rich one and sell him the cross for a good price . |
| 19 | This program is a must for anyone using a PC at home and will impress dinner guests who always say ‘ You simply must let me have a copy of the recipe , the meal was delicious ’ , you can now print it out in seconds and sell them a copy . |
| 20 | Kenneth adores him and commandeered him the moment he arrived , allowing me to join them on a walk after yet another edible meal ( any more of this clever cooking and you 'll ruin your reputation ) . |
| 21 | As to the second criticism , it is true that a talking-head programme does n't provide visual clues as to content , but it does permit the language learner to watch as well as listen , to see lip movements and facial expressions and to see what the speaker looks like . |
| 22 | By due process of law we have sentenced him to be slit in the hamstrings to be an example to those who would follow him and make him a hero to the people . |
| 23 | So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record . |
| 24 | And make him an offer he could n't refuse . |
| 25 | Double positives are taken away making it negative and your H positives go in here , making it positive , so you get a you get a little a little potential difference , a little difference in voltage , which gives a Any any two metals if you put them together and make them a bit damp , or even if you do n't make them damp , you usually get a little a tiny voltage . |
| 26 | Right , depends what the and quite honestly , if you bring these down and make them a bit more romantic |
| 27 | Lawrence has insisted he wants to stay and honour his contract at Middlesbrough and make them a force in the Premier division . |
| 28 | You need to dream , then formulate your goals from those dreams and make them a reality . |
| 29 | Should cut the gentlemen on Foggy Bottom , or wherever , down to size and make them a mite more civil and cooperative in future . |
| 30 | On the other hand , its civil servants probably have less training in business evaluation than do private sector analysts , and , of greatest importance , there is the overwhelming political temptation for the government of the day to hijack the nationalized industries and make them an instrument of whatever is the pressing problem of the day . |