Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] to [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 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I gave up being a bird watcher and succumbed to the delicious trippery feel of sun on my back and sand on my front . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 8 | The channel of communication is the copper wire which carries the electrical signals and runs to the distant end . |
| 9 | As they rounded the bend towards Westminster , Ranulf nudged Corbett and pointed to the near bank . |
| 10 | Appointed lord advocate and admitted to the Privy Council in 1951 , he became lord justice-general and lord president in 1954 . |
| 11 | They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’ |
| 12 | The major agreements are drawn up between a small number of tightly-controlled organisations and the outcome of their central negotiations sets guidelines and limits to the industry-wide negotiations which then subsequently take place . |
| 13 | The dollar crisis and the abandonment of the Gold Standard signalled the beginning of the end of the dollar bloc and led to the inevitable American withdrawal from Vietnam . |
| 14 | With the exception of two seminars on the assessment of enterprise skills , the focus on teaching and learning was taken out of the programme and shifted to a two-day conference ( with a menu of sessions to which staff can opt in ) held in June 1993 in conjunction with the Educational Development Unit . |
| 15 | By regarding the strikes as a definite act of political attack on the regime , the republican government strengthened left wing opposition and contributed to the socialist move left-ward . |
| 16 | They dressed with distinctive plainness and aspired to a simple integrity expressed in behavioural terms defined with the authority of Scripture . |
| 17 | To use , soak gauze dressing in the infusion and apply to the affected parts as often as required until relief is felt . |
| 18 | A file on the alleged offences was compiled by the Suffolk force 's internal discipline department and sent to a special section of the CPS in London which deals with allegations against English police officers . |
| 19 | Colonel Glass had arranged that Reuters press telegrams should be handled by the Department and distributed to the Burmese newspapers , so international news was regularly published , and the liaison with the Burmese editors established . |
| 20 | While the Society of Women Market Vendors exposed the corruption of the PDC and objected to the high tariffs in the new markets , it was not sufficiently organized to form a counter-proposal or take action upon it . |
| 21 | The bow is made out of a separate piece of fabric and stitched to a basic straight tie-back . |
| 22 | Turn 1.5cm ( ⅝in ) of blind fabric and lining to the wrong side along the top edge . |
| 23 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 24 | The tour returns to the United States and continues to the thundering Niagara Falls , and then to Buffalo . |
| 25 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 26 | About 1.45am a few other hostages and I were herded into a red van at gunpoint and driven to a private home in the wealthy neighbourhood where General Noriega lives . |
| 27 | A MAN was being quizzed by police yesterday after a schoolgirl was kidnapped at gunpoint and subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal . |
| 28 | Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede , Surrey . |
| 29 | Peter Davies , the housing association 's chief executive , said all the families were evacuated by boat and taken to the Aberconwy Centre . |
| 30 | The last task of the day for the humanitarian branch is to visit the village of Mammari and speak to the local farmers . |