Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 2 | I took a deep breath , pulled the cabby cap down over my eyes and knocked seven bells out of the Cornish pixie . |
| 3 | I try to be comfortable ; to stretch my legs and think soothing thoughts . |
| 4 | But I knew I could manage to stagger to my feet and find fresh kindling . |
| 5 | ‘ One day I shall oil and sharpen my shears and make another bird , ’ she said softly . |
| 6 | One thing I used to wish he would invent : something I could wear round my head — a kind of miner 's lamp — that would destroy film in the cameras of people who come to my concerts and take flash photos during the performance . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll pack my things and go first thing in the morning , ’ she called back over her shoulder , her voice like razor blades . |
| 8 | Trying to decide whether to take them down off my windows and put some poles up . |
| 9 | ‘ Now , ’ he said , ‘ I am going to wash , shave , change my clothes and eat honest food , then it 's back to Woodstock , Ranulf , mounted and armed . |
| 10 | But anyway that 's all my moans and groans this morning . |
| 11 | The reptiles underwent tremendous changes in their skeletal structure , their jaws and their teeth during over their history of more than two hundred million years , some of the predators developing razor sharp rows of fangs , other herbivores losing their teeth and acquiring beak-like jaws . |
| 12 | This group must put across its views and gain popular support and understanding for its campaign . |
| 13 | They speak with their fingers and make disgusting noises . |
| 14 | THE Philippine President , Mrs Corazon Aquino , lashed out at her enemies and mobilised popular support behind her beleaguered government yesterday at a rally attended by thousands of Filipinos . |
| 15 | President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines lashed out at her enemies and mobilised popular support behind her beleaguered government during a rally attended by thousands of Filipinos . |
| 16 | Instead good oenologists everywhere are concentrating their skills and producing wonderful wines using all the ancient secrets of Champagne with all the latest scientific advancements and the resulting wines are true themselves and are a reflection of their origins . |
| 17 | Under the project volunteers and specialist advisors would be seconded to help community enterprise workers in Masvingo improve their skills and find new markets . |
| 18 | Artisans will develop their ability to diversify their products and achieve limited improvements in their technology . |
| 19 | The diet industry ( via the media ) sells the myth that a new body shape can be obtained as easily as a new haircut , provided you can afford their products and endure prolonged starvation . |
| 20 | FEW men in public life have so successfully concealed their activities and provoked such controversy and mystery as Roland ‘ Tiny ’ Rowland . |
| 21 | Some undergraduates seek simply to broaden their horizons and develop analytical skills ; others wish to acquire a more specialised knowledge to be used in a subsequent career . |
| 22 | In 1914 , three years after her first public concerts , she and her mother moved to Berlin to a life of considerable hardship , until Joachim 's daughter-in-law discovered her talents and arranged some scholarships for her to allow her to study with Huberman . |
| 23 | Watchers assumed they were film-stars or monarchs , but looked in their programmes and found each woman self-labelled as an ordinary housewife . |
| 24 | They have betrayed their pledges and caused unnecessary increases in the cost of living . ’ |
| 25 | And buyers also have an easy method of disposing of their cars and obtaining new ones every couple of years , which in turn means low maintenance costs . |
| 26 | The recruiting sergeant told them all to disembark , stretch their legs and grab another cup of char , and added that if they were lucky they might even get something to eat . |
| 27 | HOST is looking for friendly people who would like to invite a lonely overseas student studying in Britain to spend Christmas , Easter or a weekend in their homes and experience British home life . |
| 28 | ‘ The task was not easy because along with the rise in numbers of factory committees each one had a tendency to multiply its prerogatives and to treat each factory as an independent unit of production , the collective property of its own workers , determining by itself production , sales and pricing , while the social domination of the working class over the means of production required that the atomised and contradictory powers of the factory committees be subordinated to a common political end ’ ( my translation A.C. ) . |
| 29 | The band have a live intensity that 's missing on their recordings and gave added depth to Let Me Down . |
| 30 | There are those who shake their heads and make negative noises about guidebooks like this , but there is an argument that says the publication of a Corbetts guide could take some of the pressure off the Munros . |