Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film included a suggestive ten-minute episode , set in an eighteenth-century brothel , in which a male customer chose a female prostitute , helped her undress in a bedroom and finally got into bed with her , and a frankly explicit ten-minute episode of a newly wed bride and groom set in a hotel bedroom . |
| 2 | It was not until March 29 , five days after polling , that Peacock conceded defeat and immediately resigned as leader of the Liberal Party . |
| 3 | Sarah had previously suggested that they should try the effect of Queen Caroline 's ‘ Christmas trees ’ — young fir trees set in tubs and put upon the table or in a window seat and then decked with penny candles . |
| 4 | It is not uncommon for goods to be carried by road from a European destination through several countries to a port , where they were then loaded on board a ship , taken to another continent and again despatched by road to their final destination . |
| 5 | Three times last week cars were stolen by reckless drivers and then set on fire . |
| 6 | The cots were suspended from hooks attached to the roof and further secured in position by chains and springs , known as grips , which prevented them from swinging . |
| 7 | Last year they tracked down Weatherall in Rimini and consequently signed to Boy 's Own . |
| 8 | They are produced from flowers and other plants , are brewed with boiling water in the same way as tea and usually drunk without milk . |
| 9 | Known as the champagne tea and highly regarded for afternoon drinking . |
| 10 | Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation . |
| 11 | The Totteridges asserted that they had read till eleven on Friday and then gone to bed . |
| 12 | The Portuguese escudo joined the European exchange rate mechanism on Friday and yesterday shot to pole position , hitting the top of its 6 p.c. band , and heaping pressure on the pound which remains the weak man of Euro currencies . |
| 13 | They have even given up their company cars and now tout for business in the firm 's delivery van . |
| 14 | The conclusion he drew , in stark contrast to Haya de la Torre , was that the revolution in Latin America could only be socialist , and that the united front , gradualist tactics advanced by the Comintern ( and by APRA ) were invalid in a continent overshadowed by the United States and deeply penetrated by monopoly capital . |
| 15 | To everyone within the division who has worked particularly hard this year to establish and improve our business , I would like to pass on my thanks and best wishes for Christmas and the New Year . |
| 16 | Four months ago Alan Govier was looking forward to early retirement , buying a new car and perhaps going on holiday . |
| 17 | The woman , whose hands were still bound , clambered from the back seat into the front of the two-door car and then struggled to safety . |
| 18 | She joined the King 's Fund 's then existing nursing college and later moved to director Jim Elliott 's new learning difficulties project . |
| 19 | The tissue was fixed using Brunnels primary fixative ( Laboratory Supplies and Instruments , Antrim , UK ) , processed by conventional methods and then embedded in paraffin . |
| 20 | After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families . |
| 21 | The young pedlar cast him a wary glance and apparently decided on practicality over valour . |
| 22 | Naturally , there are many TNCs that run specific production lines to serve specific markets ( see Hill and Still , 1984a , b ) , but it is usually the case that a TNC will prefer to enter a new market with a standard product rather than incur the costs of retooling , redesign and perhaps restructuring of distribution . |
| 23 | This has a PCMCIA expansion slot , weighs 4 lbs and again comes with MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 . |
| 24 | Biologically this can not be true , but it may be an assertion of political friendship and thus relate to Valentinian 's diplomacy . |
| 25 | An alternative approach to targeting that is particularly suited to low risk areas is offered by rapid tests : first identify the risk during labour and then test for carriage . |
| 26 | Otherwise , lightly grease the tin and then dust with flour and caster sugar . |
| 27 | The mosquito hovers a couple of centimetres from the trunk and suddenly alights in front of the ant . |
| 28 | A story would be typed by a journalist and then cast into metal , usually lead , by compositors . |
| 29 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |
| 30 | Adorable 's favoured method of song construction is to start with a slow , dreamy melody and then accelerate to Warp Factor 11 with very loud , sharp and combative peals of guitar swooping in to rough up the tune and kick it momentarily off course , before Piotr grabs hold of the melody again . |