Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday . |
| 2 | Subsequently Clough Williams-Ellis bought the handsome inn outside the gates of Attingham , Shropshire , which he renamed the Mytton and Mermaid and promoted as a staging post for guests en route to Portmeirion . |
| 3 | When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash . |
| 4 | Only a week later I was noticed by a scout and engaged for a pantomime in Manchester , to play the Princess in Jack and the Beanstalk . |
| 5 | There entrepreneurs identified the existence of a seller 's market just waiting to be developed , and created their own demand , which gathered its own momentum and benefited from a snowball effect . |
| 6 | Humming to himself , he went back into the bedroom and put on a pair of grey corduroy trousers , a red shirt and a bright turquoise jumper , stained with food . |
| 7 | The higher the premium is on conversion then the more the issue will be treated as a fixed interest investment and valued on a yield basis , with attention given to the financial strength of the issuing company and the number of times the interest/dividend payment is covered by available profits . |
| 8 | During the course of the story Tottle is arrested for theft and taken to a sponging-house , from which he is rescued by Parsons . |
| 9 | The head of the ‘ effigy ’ is a wax portrait — Bentham 's own head was removed , desiccated , provided with glass eyes and placed under a glass dome to sit between the feet of the auto-icon ; it , too , is now on public display — a little start-eyed , yet nevertheless recognizable ( Col. 3 ) . |
| 10 | A documentary credit is issued by the importer 's bank in favour of the exporter and forwarded to a bank in the exporter 's country for payment . |
| 11 | Joe and Terry had finished their training and were due to come on leave when Joe was promoted to Lance Corporal and sent on a course , and Terry came home alone . |
| 12 | Hercules is often depicted holding a club and draped with a lion 's hide . |
| 13 | Mortified at what she had done she leapt out of her seat and collided with a waiter , sending the plate of egg fried rice he was carrying flying through the air . |
| 14 | Last year , when his party was in opposition and locked in a leadership battle , 60% of its supporters voted No . |
| 15 | Pollock , 18 , equalised with a 25-yard shot eight minutes after the break and celebrated with a somersault before being mobbed by fans who invaded the pitch . |
| 16 | The ideas of the Laingians in part struck a chord because someone with mental disorder causes enormous disruption and upset in a family — so it is no wonder that relatives appear deeply concerned and closely involved , a factor which professionals often forget . |
| 17 | All eyes , assisted by lenses ground to various prescriptions and set into a range of tasteful frames , rest upon us . |
| 18 | ‘ Mervyn had suggested we should make the Dalek transport machines out of cardboard tubes — sprayed silver and fitted over a person 's legs . |
| 19 | Prey is immediately carried to the mouth and killed with a bite from the bird-like beak , tucked away among the tentacles . |
| 20 | The one feature that does survive in various historic towns is the Georgian summer house , often square with a pyramid roof and perched on a corner above a garden wall to take advantage of the view . |
| 21 | No. 4 is a timber stores arranged in three bays for panel and more delicate woods , and No. 2 a large shed with corrugated roof and known as a timber hoist , this building being open at the sides and spanned by an overhead crane serving the various storage compartments . |
| 22 | ENGLISH LAMB FILLET , ROASTED AND TOPPED WITH A HERB CRUST AND SERVED WITH A MUSHROOM AND LEEK TIMBALE IN A PIQUANT SAUCE |
| 23 | Bernice was fairly sure that if she asked whether she was , at that moment , on a lumpy excrescence on a strand of spaghetti stretching into the Doctor 's future and surrounded by a soup of probabilities , she would n't like the answer . |
| 24 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 25 | His meditative sculptures are organic , natural shapes fashioned from straight-sawn , rectangular pieces of wood , covered with cotton fabric and painted in a variety of colours . |
| 26 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 27 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 28 | Two needlework cushions with tassels designed by David and made by a friend sit happily with a traditional Amish quilt . |
| 29 | At her farewell , GM gave a vote of thanks and presented with a nest of mahogany tables on behalf of the company . |
| 30 | Item No 5 : it is extremely difficult to date these religious medallions , struck to be blessed by a priest and kept as a talisman . |