Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [prep] [art] [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 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 3 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 4 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 5 | The second had primary biliary cirrhosis and died from a variceal bleed while under review . |
| 6 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moldovan President Mircea Snegur imposed a state of emergency and direct presidential rule on March 28 , and called on the population to prepare to fight for the " motherland " , following a month of skirmishes and fighting in the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic [ for formation in September 1990 see p. 37723 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My father loved old time Music Hall songs and hits from the Gay Nineties like ‘ Good-bye , Dolly Grey ’ , and ‘ Soldiers of the Queen ’ , and one of his favourites was ‘ Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 12 | The seminar is being organised by WACC 's North American regional association and hosted by The United Church of Canada under the theme ‘ Legacy : 500 Years of Evangelization in the Americas ’ . |
| 13 | He sacrificed , he sacrificed the quick movement , the rapid changes of circumstance which a certain kind of reader demands , in order to match his description of thinking and feeling to the actual pace at which these things are experienced in real life . |
| 14 | Any books on the Alexander Method co-ordinate thinking and doing in a creative way . |
| 15 | If this advice is ignored , the torque of the seven-foot-diameter propeller , and the airflow it sends corkscrewing down the fuselage and acting on the large fin , causes the relatively light 207 to suddenly aim for the left-hand side of the runway . |
| 16 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 17 | Despite these real successes , however , my sense is that now is a time to take stock and to reflect on the theoretical , pedagogic and political foundations of multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 18 | Moisten the chicken using the reduced stock and garnish with the cooked vegetables from the stock , but discard the bouquet garni . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I gave up being a bird watcher and succumbed to the delicious trippery feel of sun on my back and sand on my front . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single . |
| 24 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 25 | ‘ Just a case of first-night nerves , ’ I mutter , unlocking my legs and grasping at the steaming mug.Ruthie Henshall opens tonight in Crazy For You at the Prince Edward Theatre , London . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 28 | Significantly , the Athletic News , which had provided splendid weekly coverage , fell from its 170,000 circulation and disappeared as an independent title in 1931 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |