Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was also mustering troops , and planned to lead them northwards to join up with her son . |
| 2 | Mr Ferguson said Brown had a £40,000 tax bill and planned to sell her Aristocats escort agency in Bayswater , west London , and train to be a beautician . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Staff appropriate to Florey 's aims had to be recruited and grants to pay them obtained from outside bodies . |
| 5 | Some of the older clubs were narrowly evangelical , but Russell wanted to see religion used ‘ to comprehend all the impalpable influences which give a club a grip on its boys and tend to awaken their higher nature or further their spiritual development ’ . |
| 6 | have their quality problems , that 's where you can score over but the prices are very very low and tend to pick them up . |
| 7 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 8 | We succeed in operating them profitably , but the big national breweries regard such pubs as non-viable and tend to close them or sell them off , with inevitable consequences in the form of unemployment . |
| 9 | Social classes often have their own particular behaviour , purchase and consumption patterns , and tend to limit their closest relationships , social intercourse and friendship to their own kind . |
| 10 | And tend to assume I have to do this anyway . |
| 11 | The lights I work under can get really hot and tend to dry it out so I have to be extra careful . |
| 12 | ‘ I love animals and hate to see them killed , ’ said Clara McKay , 81 . |
| 13 | Also , I love animals and hate to see them suffer . |
| 14 | I feel the need to do something so I buy a dumb little hand-held game and sit playing it while I wait . |
| 15 | They should last a long time , and can be stripped down and boiled to clean them . |
| 16 | I was told that your Earl Siward had the army of Alba immobilised in the south , and expected to overwhelm it . |
| 17 | At the same time , the European Parliament is considering the document and expected to finish its work by the beginning of July . |
| 18 | Over the years Gambo became quite famous , and found himself dragged from battle to battle and expected to launch his now famous Halfling hot pot into the enemy ranks . |
| 19 | Executive officials can be hauled before Congressional committees and asked to justify their conduct of policy . |
| 20 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 21 | After watching several performances he approached Ray and asked to paint his portrait . |
| 22 | When Jennie came in and asked to see what we were doing , we were giggling so much , she would say , ‘ What are yer giggling at , yer little monkeys ? ’ |
| 23 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 24 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 25 | In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used . |
| 26 | Head teachers and other teachers were surveyed and asked to describe their preparation for , execution of , and follow-up after topic work . |
| 27 | When he finally stepped into the group and asked to join there were murmurs from the trainees at the blue sash he wore . |
| 28 | Users were intercepted as they approached a terminal to either catalogue and asked to undertake their searches under controlled conditions . |
| 29 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 30 | Once he dared to knock on Emmett 's door late at night and asked to borrow his dress suit . |