Example sentences of "[n mass] and [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fully developed hedgehogs can grow to a length of around 225mm and weigh between a half and one kilo . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | David Buckley , 29 , of Speke , Merseyside , was giving a friend a lift when his car clipped the kerb , somersaulted 15ft and smashed through a lamp-post . |
| 4 | Spread the American frosting over the body of the sheep and swirl with a palette knife so that it looks like a woolly coat . |
| 5 | Typical was the hexagonal tile , painted by Picasso with a bull and inscribed to Cooper , estimated at $6–8,000 and sold to a phone bidder for $42,000 ( £23,300 ) , the lot of eight lithographed greeting cards by Braque , sold for $15,000 ( £8,300 ) ( est. $2,000–3,000 ) , a nine-item lot of small drawings and autographed and inscribed photographs by Picasso , Miró , Braque and Leger , sold for $8,000 ( £4,400 ) ( est. $500–700 ) and a lot of three delicate watercolours by Picasso 's mistress Dora Maar ( est. $600–800 ) bought by Paloma Picasso , the artist 's daughter by his subsequent mistress , Françoise Gilot , for $5,000 ( £2,800 ) . |
| 6 | He was a bright boy with a gift for mathematics , and was sent to Gresham College to study engineering , but soon after the outbreak of war in 1914 joined the Royal Flying Corps and served as a flight-lieutenant in No. 73 Squadron in France . |
| 7 | I have to wait a while before I get a second chub , but it is worth it for this one weighs 4lb 10oz and fights like a demon . |
| 8 | On our menus , you 'll find dishes like Loué chicken in a cider sauce , tender veal with pears in a rich sauce , seafood from our Atlantic coast , oysters and locally caught salmon , pike and perch in a beurre blanc Nantais sauce . |
| 9 | You go for these people and ask for a board and this sort of thing it 's just , it just gets to be demeaning , the practice manager should have , should have |
| 10 | A meeting in Hyde Park in 1926 was attended by 1,000 people and ended with a fight with communist demon-strators . |
| 11 | Over a period of eight years , Reagan visited 135 plants in more than forty states , met 250,000 people and stood before a microphone for an estimated 250,000 minutes . |
| 12 | At the age of 55 he 's still full of football and full of fun and possibly the best judge of what a big cup game means and brings to a club like Hereford . |
| 13 | They were causing distress to the firm 's staff and amounted to a nuisance . |
| 14 | This argument , that the Scottish party should elect its own leader , raise its own funds , hire and fire its own staff and sit in a Westminster coalition with the English and Welsh Labour Party , is something which acutely interests a few hundred activists , but not many MPs , and one guesses , precious few voters . |
| 15 | He was defending himself with great skill , every now and then sliding his hands down the staff and striking at a distance with its full length , and then suddenly changing direction and bringing the shortened end up in a jab at the face or stomach of one of the attackers he had tempted to come too close . |
| 16 | A single service with a unified management structure for on-site , off-site and what is currently special school provision would considerably enhance the professional opportunities of its staff and reduce to a minimum the duplication or even rivalry that exists . |
| 17 | The Super League 's Southern semi-final canal match was fished at Northbrook last month and produced two double-figure hauls of quality roach , dace and perch plus a gudgeon catch topping 7 lb . |
| 18 | Four to follow in this year 's World Series RICK REUSCHEL ( Giants ) Age : 40 Position : Starting pitcher ( right-handed ) At 240lb and proportioned like a darts player , ‘ Big Daddy ’ is proof that you do n't need to be a super-athlete to succeed . |
| 19 | For her , the court case , where he was fined £500 and banned for a year , was her lowest point . |
| 20 | The discussion groups ( Appendix II , section 5 ) show how easily a change for the worse in someone 's circumstances can lead to debt troubles : the man in hospital after an accident at work , who then had a breakdown , while overdue credit instalments mounted up to over £100 and led to a court summons ; the family who owed £30 a week on furniture and carpet instalments for their new flat — eventually taken to court after a series of lost jobs ; or ( Appendix III ) the previously secure young widow whose money troubles started when her husband died — although an understanding bank wrote off the outstanding balance on a car loan , a furniture firm refused to accept the reduced instalments which were all that she could afford . |
| 21 | Sprinkle the Kirsch over the fruit and place in a refrigerator for at least 12 hours to marinate . |
| 22 | A raised wooden runway , carpeted with the pin-sharp points of six-inch nails hammered through from the bottom , ran out 50ft and ended in a bed of nails laid on the grass . |