Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb pp] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy . |
| 2 | Most German manufacturers have their ‘ house bank ’ , often a major shareholder and locked into an enduring relationship . |
| 3 | In 1768 he patented a method for hardening and preserving wood , which was effectively applied to several warships and publicized by an eight-page advertisement ( 1770 ) ; it describes thirty-one items tested at his Great Tower Hill works , ranging from brewing implements and wooden pipes for London waterworks to twenty-five gun-carriages treated for the Tower of London garrison . |
| 4 | Time will show whether the training has long-term benefits — or whether it merely creates LRT junkies , capable of happiness only in an environment unnaturally charged with emotion and hooked on an expensive promise of love and everlasting life . |
| 5 | Situated in 6 acres of gardens surrounded by large moat and approached through an imposing 14thC Gate House . |
| 6 | They had a tiny room on the ground floor lit by a small leaded window and heated by an open fire from which as much smoke seemed to blow into the room as went up the chimney . |
| 7 | Changelings were sometimes said to have been afflicted with ‘ elf-shot ’ , that is , shot with an elfin arrow and afflicted with an unknown disease . |
| 8 | He stopped at a little roadside inn and found inside an old woman at work with a spinning wheel , like ‘ a dark silhouette out of a fairy tale ’ , and beyond her , through the window , the clear sky and a path through the delicate green , and geese pecking in the grass . |
| 9 | , Isaac ( d. 1699 ) , Hebrew scholar and bibliophile , was born in Spain and taken at an early age to Hamburg . |
| 10 | Johnny Kelly , an established player , ingeniously devised his own brand of detergent , which he mixed up in his bath at home and delivered in an old van with the registration number AGE 100 . |
| 11 | The decision to ‘ choose ’ , or not to ‘ choose ’ will be taken away from the parents and left to an ad-hoc committee of neighbours . |
| 12 | He does a lot of celebrity after-dinner speaking like Franky Worthington Frank seems to appear in every charity penalty shootout or random presentation at Elland Road before a game , usually in the company of a page three girl and clad in an appalling 70s suit and to massive cheers from the Kop : - ) . |
| 13 | Powered by a 550bhp Perkins engine and fitted with an advanced suspension system , Warrior can move cross-country faster than any other armoured vehicle currently in service with the British Army . |
| 14 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 15 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 16 | The Interludium de Clerico et Puella , " The interlude of the clerk and the girl " , appears to be a fragment of the tale of Dame Sirith , presented quite explicitly as the text of a play and preserved in an early fourteenth-century copy in a manuscript in the collection of the British Library ( Additional MS 23986 ) . |
| 17 | Romeo Venetiaan , President of the Peace Commission of the government of President Ronald Venetiaan , described the decision as a " distinct development " and promised development aid to the interior jungle regions controlled by these groups and inhabited by an estimated 50,000 indigenous people , effectively disenfranchised and living in largely autonomous village communities . |
| 18 | A 1 mg/ml PT-gliadin solution was prepared by dilution of the gliadin digest with distilled H 2 O and mixed with an equal amount of Freund 's incomplete adjuvant . |
| 19 | Of course , you can change the fellow , as for instance Margaret Allingham did over a good many years with her Mr Campion , who started out as a form of imitation Scarlet Pimpernel and ended as an acute and compassionate observer of human follies . |
| 20 | Nursing staff , on the other hand , began to participate in out-patient team discussions and contributed at an early stage to identifying children and young people who might benefit from hospital admission . |
| 21 | And though the winner was US-bred , owned by a Saudi Arabian prince and ridden by an Irish-born jockey , this was a moment of the utmost sweetness for British racing , for Dancing Brave , here proving himself the horse of the decade by treating with contempt an international field of the highest quality , was trained in Sussex by Guy Harwood . |
| 22 | The blue theme was continued by using a pale blue-grey linen mount card backed with cream silk and surrounded by an attractive gold frame . |
| 23 | These are folded along creases to form a cracker tube and sealed with an adhesive strip . |
| 24 | 7 & 8 A few years ago Sally Baring of Borderline went into an antique shop and left with an 1895 fabric block . |
| 25 | The most successful placement programmes to date have been developed from an identifiable need and developed into an accessible package which is clearly targeted with a prescribed framework e.g. Women in Management , Transition from School to Work , Information Technology . |
| 26 | Roll up each piece of fish and put into an ovenproof dish , pour over the marinade and dot with the butter . |
| 27 | We lived in the tenement block that ran its whole length in a top-storey room and kitchen with no bathroom and an outside toilet shared with several other families and reached by an open staircase . |
| 28 | Most of the run is via motorway and covered at an average speed of 50–60mph . |
| 29 | This sketch belonged to a group of seven oil paintings by Cezanne formerly in the collection of Auguste Pellerin and offered by an unidentified European foundation . |
| 30 | We forded the Webi Shebeli on 17 October and camped near an Arussi village . |