Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April . |
| 32 | The effects of the Great Depression and a renewed possibility of war in Europe in the 1930s made most Americans all the more determined to isolate and insulate themselves from the quarrels and atavism of the nations of Europe . |
| 33 | So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders . |
| 34 | There was a noticeable hesitation before Tamar rose and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 35 | I rose and faced her across the table . |
| 36 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 37 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 38 | At a push , you could use a disk editor , such as the one included with Norton Utilities , to recover files — just hunt down the file you want and copy it to a new file . |
| 39 | ‘ We gets what we want and puts it in the freezer — got no use for shoppin' us . ’ |
| 40 | He ‘ made ’ this year 's Grand National winner , according to trainer Nick Gaselee , teaching the equine giant , nicknamed the Monster Muncher , how to jump and handle himself in a race . |
| 41 | There was a bit of head-scratching as they pushed , squeezed and levered me into the passenger seat : ‘ The biggest bloke yet ’ . |
| 42 | After I turned the engine off and opened the door , I found my legs had turned to blancmange and moulded themselves into a sitting position . |
| 43 | I find an old plastic carrier bag , tip out the few bits of string and wire it contains and replace them with a handful of rusty bolts from the biscuit tin . |
| 44 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 45 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 46 | According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts . |
| 47 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 48 | The red glow from the furnaces fell across the treadmills , turning the steel mesh to angry crimson , bathing the creatures inside them to eerie , unnatural life , blending and merging them with the machinery , until it was very nearly impossible to tell where the treadmills ended and the human creatures began … |
| 49 | You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe . |
| 50 | She stopped and halted him with a hand on his arm . |
| 51 | Ryan stopped and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 52 | She stopped and drew me behind a screen of goldenrod , tangled and wild like a neglected hedgerow . |
| 53 | His players respected and loved him as a result . |
| 54 | The merit of this , as we have seen , is that we are led to examine the ways in which this ‘ objective ’ economic class comes to persist and reproduce itself as a self-consciously ‘ lived ’ social entity . |
| 55 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 56 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
| 57 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
| 58 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
| 59 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
| 60 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |