Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a situation it is therefore all the more necessary to recognize the unique place the ethnographer holds and to capitalize on it . |
| 2 | Much depends on the nature of the training provided , especially the ethos that guides it ; that is , whether it is organization- and profession-centred on the one hand or client- and community-oriented on the other and the degree of commitment on the part of professionals to recognize and affirm the value of indigenous factors and to capitalize upon them . |
| 3 | As glossy as a fashion-plate , Karl jumped up , grasped Herr Nordern 's hand , and beamed into his face . |
| 4 | Battler sat back and beamed at me . |
| 5 | He took the cigarette holder out of his wide mouth and beamed at his visitor , his Roosevelt smile , warm and toothy . |
| 6 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 7 | Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies . |
| 8 | To foster in pupils a love of literature , to encourage their awareness of its unique relationship to human experience and to promote in them a sense of excitement in the power and potential of language can be one of the greatest joys of the English teacher . |
| 9 | What she did see was hair the colour of rich , ruby port wine , swept up , somehow , from the forehead and hanging past her shoulders in a heavy , shining mass that curled under at the sides and bottom like a long page-boy bob . |
| 10 | Yvonne says , fanning her mouth and hanging onto my arm . |
| 11 | Infants who die of dehydration , their tongues blackened ( their mothers say ) and hanging from their mouths , compete for attention with equally brutal images of thirst-driven sertanejos who walk hundreds of kilometres to escape the drought of the sertão or hinterland . |
| 12 | A wire stretched from the contraption at the top out towards the school and hanging from it was a dangerous-looking wooden basket , big enough to hold a single person . |
| 13 | It does this by gripping the silk with its back legs and hanging from it . |
| 14 | I see me in my shame , the horror of this hour ; mascara fallout littering my face like ashes , my skin dank with the sweat of Crilly and myself , my underwear torn and hanging from my hips , and me , small and stoned and sobbing , beneath the stern emphatic white of Siobhan 's cross . |
| 15 | Frank leaned forward and whispered through his translator . |
| 16 | I shuffled along behind Werewolf and whispered to him , ‘ Head for the Wood to the right and wait for me somewhere near that big conifer . ’ |
| 17 | She stood on the stool and reached up to replace it , and when she stood back down again she bent over and whispered to me , ‘ That 's a bad omen , luv . |
| 18 | The next day Signor Merli came to the bank , ostensibly on business , and whispered to me that some of the prisoners had decided to leave their hiding places and strike out across the Via Emilia towards the high Apennines . |
| 19 | She kissed it as if it was a relic and whispered to me la muerta , la muerta . |
| 20 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 21 | He reached through the hole and whispered to her to take his hand . |
| 22 | As Rain showed him and Eliot out , he hung back and whispered to her . |
| 23 | They would start to jeer at the company , but stopped when they saw the Hearthware sashes and the Myrcan staves and whispered amongst themselves . |
| 24 | ‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’ |
| 25 | Lee took them from her and kissed her and whispered in her ear : ‘ Be nice to Conrad , ’ because she knew Philippa considered him decadent and damned . |
| 26 | He kissed her again , on the forehead this time , and whispered in her ear , ‘ Kiss me back , McAllister . |
| 27 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 28 | She stepped forward on tiptoe and whispered in his ear . |
| 29 | Suddenly the old man grabbed him and whispered in his ear , ‘ Shh ! |
| 30 | She flinched , and whispered in his ear , ‘ Ouch , you 're pulling at my wool . ’ |