Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This dock , to the east of the Albert Dock and connected by a passageway 19.8 metres wide at coping level measures 457 metres long by 198 metres wide with a jetty 305 metres long by 76 metres wide in the centre adjoining the east end . |
| 32 | Three years ago , the Ward family were held at gunpoint and threatened by a gang of raiders at their home in Turweston . |
| 33 | He lost control of his car and collided with a van being driven by self-employed glazier Stephen Whitehead . |
| 34 | ‘ She was dragged into a car and taken to a house . |
| 35 | He was drugged , bundled into the boot of a car and driven to a canyon on the outskirts of Santiago . |
| 36 | Moreover , the advent of low-cost , high-density-storage devices like CD-ROMs may well make substantial data sets available even to those with modest computing power : a CD-ROM , for instance , can hold about 600 megabytes ( i.e. 10&sup6 ; bytes ) , can be reproduced currently for about £1 and read on a device costing about £400 . |
| 37 | Today he would sit in a think-tank , cosseted by secretaries and flattered by a stream of calls from talk-show producers . |
| 38 | These images were stored on video tape and processed by a MS-DOS computer , using a video grabber , and processing software ( IBAS , Kontron GmbH , Munich , Germany ) . |
| 39 | He quickly devoured a few fragments and stuffed into a bag a lot of miscellaneous food which Irina was evidently leaving behind . |
| 40 | Despite offers of another bottle , we declared a truce and comforted ourselves by sharing a strawberry and raspberry gratinée , the fresh fruit beached in a hot lake of custard and centred with a melting raspberry sorbet : definitely my desert island dish . |
| 41 | Schmidt hunched his shoulders and gobbled like a turkey . |
| 42 | His voice broke with emotion and faded to a whisper . |
| 43 | It was raining on Jimale , Chola and Mina had taken their claw-shaped wooden rakes and gone with a group of women to gather pine-needles in the forest . |
| 44 | In the dim light and seated behind a desk was the unmistakable smiling face of Colonel Charlie Vaughan . |
| 45 | Quinn is represented by several heads of historical figures , modelled in bread and cast in bronze or lead ; ‘ Self ’ , the celebrated self-portrait created from eight pints of the artist 's own blood and displayed in a refrigeration unit ; and ‘ You take my breath away ’ , an empty latex cast of the artist 's body suspended from the ceiling like the skin of St Bartholomew . |
| 46 | Here are scattered numerous slate boulders which have been carried by glacier action and dumped on a limestone shelf . |
| 47 | It was a tool used by farriers to Pare the hoof of a horse and known as a butteris , buttress or buttrace . |
| 48 | It remained in private hands until the early 1950s , when it was bought by owner-manager James Edgar and converted into a hotel . |
| 49 | The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type , the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary . |
| 50 | Lifto , from the Jim Rose Travelling Circus , is sitting eating breakfast , shaven-headed , wearing stockings , high heels and draped in a kimono . |
| 51 | I was carried down to the ambulance and taken to a Kendal hospital . |
| 52 | It is also possible that in some patients concurrent radiation proctitis caused rectal irritability and contributed to a stool weight that was lower than would be predictd from stool frequency . |
| 53 | For instance , it must be at an undervalue and made at a time when the company was unable to pay its debts , the company must be in the course of being wound up in England or subject to an administration order , and so on . |
| 54 | This first phase of Gaullist control of television began with an ordinance and ended with a law . |
| 55 | Plucked from obscurity by US intelligence and groomed into a CIA asset over three decades , the general took no chances . |
| 56 | Tights , which Jane had to pay for herself , were made of thickish cotton and fastened with a coin each side and taped . |
| 57 | Pressures were transmitted to external pressure transducers and recorded on a polygraph . |
| 58 | In essence this would mean a parallel document recognised by the Church within each diocese and used as a basis for provision of R.E . |
| 59 | Police drafted armed officers into the village and called in a helicopter with heat-seeking equipment . |
| 60 | The sector to the right ( The Quiquillon ) has only a few hard climbs , but its other side , hidden from the village and approached from a parking place reached by driving through a housing estate just before the village , has many fine , steep routes , often with three pitches , at all standards . |