Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [coord] [vb -s] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his attempts to organize street parties , coach outings and singalongs in the local pubs ended in abject failure . |
| 2 | My own favourite example concerns the determination of the atomic and molecular weights of naturally occurring elements and compounds in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | And then a jumble of words flashed across his face , causing cat-calls and boos in the half-empty cinema . |
| 4 | They can make tracks and footmarks in the snow , and on finding footmarks can guess which way the person who made them was going . |
| 5 | Festivals are n't only about fishing , most feature an after match disco and for the less energetic there 's pool , darts competitions and singalongs in the local bar . |
| 6 | There are , in criminal investigations , a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence . |
| 7 | Charles unbuckled his ski straps and stuck skis and sticks in the snow beside Peregrine 's . |
| 8 | Paolozzi takes up the challenge with relish , as he deliberately creates hiatuses and breaks in The Wealth of Nations . |
| 9 | A few minutes later I followed , using dips and bends in the track to keep myself hidden . |
| 10 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 11 | We did a series of rides , and a wine trail round the vineyards , and had talks and slideshows in the evenings . |