Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 2 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 3 | The second had primary biliary cirrhosis and died from a variceal bleed while under review . |
| 4 | All I 'm saying is , I doubt if there are men practising the Black Arts and meeting on a regular basis for drunken orgies the way Parsons ’ and Dashwood 's men did . |
| 5 | Any schemes which promote the arts and lead to a wider understanding are obviously most welcome . |
| 6 | In a tribal village , in Africa say , a boy is born to a particular woman who , obeying the customs of her people , proceeds to rear him either under conditions of high sociability or relative isolation and according to a particular regime of toilet training and weaning . |
| 7 | Under the new scheme , CFCs and water are mixed in a reaction furnace and heated with a high-frequency electric current to about 10,000 degrees Centigrade , at which point electrons are stripped from the atoms to form a plasma . |
| 8 | Any books on the Alexander Method co-ordinate thinking and doing in a creative way . |
| 9 | Besides a full set of stamps mounted on card and protected by a transparent sleeve , each pack opens up to reveal a wealth of information , accompanied by full-colour illustrations . |
| 10 | JUNE 30 : At the EGM , the BRDC members vote down a resolution by directors to ratify the deal and vote for a special resolution to have it unwound . |
| 11 | They decided to scale down the experiment and worked with a thinner piece of palladium , an 8 cm × 8 cm × 0.2 cm sheet rolled into a cylindrical shape , and also lowered the current to less than 0.2 amps instead of the 1.5 amp current that blew up the block . |
| 12 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 13 | But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single . |
| 14 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 15 | Significantly , the Athletic News , which had provided splendid weekly coverage , fell from its 170,000 circulation and disappeared as an independent title in 1931 . |
| 16 | A rapid and widescale communication network is thus provided , and good chants can be taken over from one set of fans and used against a different set the following week . |
| 17 | She darted into her bedroom and reappeared with a cut-glass bottle of a very expensive make . |
| 18 | The darkness of the beginning of the poem is suddenly illuminated to a ‘ low stream-line brightness ’ towards the end when she picks up speed and moves from a misty , black and yet dignified depression to a kind of elation . |
| 19 | Er the industry is responsible for half our fixed investment and accounts for a third of our manufacturing base . |
| 20 | The extension provided Rabbani with more time to form a consultative assembly , the Council of Resolution and Settlement ( Hal wa Aqd Shura ) , which would elect a permanent president and prepare for a general election . |
| 21 | The opening of the session , called for under the terms of the April 1992 Peshawar Accords in order to elect a permanent President and prepare for a general election , had been repeatedly postponed . |
| 22 | The thematic maps were computer generated , using information brought together from a number of databases and processed through a Geographic Information System with methods that were specially developed during the project . |
| 23 | The fellow looked furtively round , licked his lips , and beckoned Corbett and Ranulf into a shadowy window recess . |
| 24 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 25 | Cupping his hand beneath Beth 's elbow , he looked deep into her eyes and said in a quieter voice , ‘ Do n't feel bad . |
| 26 | ROS marches up behind her , puts his hands over her eyes and says with a desperate frivolity . ) |
| 27 | He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change . |
| 28 | It was like the feeling he used to get when he played another game from his childhood ; that of closing his eyes and walking for a certain number of steps along , say , a wide path in a park . |
| 29 | Close your eyes and lie in a comfortable position . |
| 30 | But last night Livingstone tracked his Newton Aycliffe rival and surged into a winning lead 200 metres from the finish . |