Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trust has no endowment and relies on donations and grants to undertake its conservation work on the nunnery , the most complete medieval example of its kind in Scotland and Britain . |
| 2 | Staff appropriate to Florey 's aims had to be recruited and grants to pay them obtained from outside bodies . |
| 3 | Frankenstein repents some of his harshness and agrees to make one , a female . ’ |
| 4 | The issues of repentance and forgiveness feature here also — Rodolpho , even at the last moment , is prepared to accept the blame for what Eddie has done and offers to kiss his hand , and Beatrice also offers him an earlier chance of redemption by asking him and Catherine to make friends and Catherine agrees — but Eddie refuses . |
| 5 | The agency man owes his knowledge of a particular publication , say newspaper profiles " , not only to the National Readership Survey , but to the sales literature from the media itself which have plied him with relevant data about readership and special opportunities and offers to make their publication the best of all possible buys . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr Punch doing penance for his error of 35 years ago , ’ — presumably around 1884 he had said something silly about women in Parliament — ‘ and begs to offer his respectful congratulations to Lady Astor ’ . |
| 7 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 8 | The record buyer who has fallen in love with the band , and goes to see them play , is often disappointed by a lacklustre show . |
| 9 | She do n't put him down for a minute , oh he feels insecure and he 's left his mummy and goes love his granny and come on your granny , I think oh carry on ! |
| 10 | Now he owes her a debt , and goes to pay it . ’ |
| 11 | Ardoyne woman Marion Kane , who fought hard to turn the scheme into reality , said : ‘ This is a dream come true and goes to show what can be achieved if local people are determined to have what they deserve . ’ |
| 12 | The nurse returns and sits facing me . |
| 13 | If a particular monkey is chased and harried for as long as ten minutes , it may become so stressed that eventually it gives up trying to escape and sits to face its death without screaming or even resisting when the hunters finally seize it . |
| 14 | Frequently , the mistaken belief is that counselling involves telling people what to do in a nice friendly way and involves educating them with a few pertinent facts in a clear , easily memorable , style . |
| 15 | As their celebrations continue more facts emerge with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing up to the final curtain . |
| 16 | ‘ Felicitations from him who must worship you from afar and longs to have you for his own . ’ |
| 17 | The following fifty years , which were also the years in which Athens and the Greeks decisively rebuffed the attempts of the Persians under Darius and Xerxes to destroy their independent states , saw further moves towards the dominance of popular power in Athens , some of them directly prompted by the necessities of war . |
| 18 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 19 | Sony Corp has a new ‘ booksize ’ workstation it calls bigNEWS NWS-3150 , and has priced it at $5,645 , making it just possible for the individual user to afford . |
| 20 | Addressing himself to the inhabitants of the world , jinn , men and angels , he said , ‘ The Imam of our time has sent you his blessing and his compassion and has called you to be his special , chosen servants . |
| 21 | But now she 's back with a new healthy image , two young children — and has remarried her ex-husband |
| 22 | AT&T Co is stepping up its battle with British Telecommunications Plc with launch of its WorldSource customised communication services for multinationals , and has announced its plans for Europe and the Far East . |
| 23 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 24 | His wife has been fired from Malawi University 's College of Nursing and has lost her accommodation . |
| 25 | If there is no response after three or four pills then either the prescription is wrong or the remedy is no good and has lost its potency for some reason . |
| 26 | The 28-year-old Australian , men 's champion in 1987 , has been sidelined with a knee injury since last September and has lost his fitness battle . |
| 27 | My three-year-old Oscar is feeding and acting normally , and has lost none of its colour , but it has a problem with its pectoral fins . |
| 28 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 29 | He begins his account at the point where he is considering handing in his resignation and has invited his friends , the generals von Roon and von Moltke , to dine with him in order to discuss the situation . |
| 30 | Flame Retardants gained BS5750 Pt 2 accreditation in 1989 — the first of Courtaulds Chemicals businesses to do so — and has maintained its efforts ever since . |