Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the course of the story Tottle is arrested for theft and taken to a sponging-house , from which he is rescued by Parsons . |
| 2 | They queued patiently for lifts and ascended through a " Titanic cobweb " to find a choice of Parisian , Alsatian , Russian and Anglo-American restaurants on the first level and a bird's-eye view of the Seine sparkling beneath . |
| 3 | McCredie and Horrox ( 1985 ) illustrated how children , who had lost one parent through divorce and adjusted to a lone-parent family , expressed anxiety and often outright resistance to any further changes , particularly remarriage of their parent/s . |
| 4 | Entertainment was in the capable hands of instrument mechanic Dennis Brown , who acted as compere and arranged for a guest appearance by Blackpool duo Rendezvous . |
| 5 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 6 | This is a small cruciform building ( 33 by 39 feet ) , situated behind the church of S. Vitale , made of brick and covered by a central dome . |
| 7 | The permanent committee of Zaïre 's bishops had on March 2 criticized the " blocking " of democratisation and called for a national conference . |
| 8 | The one-day course , held at Brunel Technical College and attended by 25 people , began with lecture demonstrations explaining the scientific principles of cooking and ended with a gourmet meal in the company of tutors and guests , which provided an opportunity to discuss science in general . |
| 9 | With the reduction in cost of computer memory it is now possible to convert speech into digital information which is then compressed many hundreds of times and stored in a ROM . |
| 10 | Anyone contributing a single lecture to a series like this — covering a wide spectrum of disciplines and addressed to a general audience — is bound to feel some anxiety and uncertainty about how their contribution will fit into its larger context . |
| 11 | Despite offers of another bottle , we declared a truce and comforted ourselves by sharing a strawberry and raspberry gratinée , the fresh fruit beached in a hot lake of custard and centred with a melting raspberry sorbet : definitely my desert island dish . |
| 12 | Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic . |
| 13 | A simple family record should be equally simple in its choice of words and spoken in a natural and relaxed tone of voice . |
| 14 | Anthony Andrews , so often seen as the archetypal urbane Englishman , turns in a performance of immense depth and sympathy as Miller , who is accused of spying and cast into a barbarous prison camp . |
| 15 | The thematic maps were computer generated , using information brought together from a number of databases and processed through a Geographic Information System with methods that were specially developed during the project . |
| 16 | At her farewell , GM gave a vote of thanks and presented with a nest of mahogany tables on behalf of the company . |
| 17 | A rapid and widescale communication network is thus provided , and good chants can be taken over from one set of fans and used against a different set the following week . |
| 18 | The bow is made out of a separate piece of fabric and stitched to a basic straight tie-back . |
| 19 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 20 | The Prague meeting was preceded by sharp disagreements between the Soviet Union and some member states , notably Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , whose representatives spoke openly about the dissolution of COMECON and pressed for a speedier implementation of currency convertibility and the right to trade individually with organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 21 | On his orders the tapster broached a good cask of wine and brought across a bowl of water . |
| 22 | In most cases , they are constructed mainly of bryozoans and capped by a unit of stromatolites ( Füchtbauer 1972 ; Smith 1958 and 1981 ; Peryt 1978 ) , but locally they are formed entirely of stromatolites ( Paul 1980 ) . |
| 23 | His early education came chiefly from his father , but in 1856 he enrolled at the Royal College of Chemistry and studied for a year under A. W. von Hoffmann , before becoming assistant chemist to J. T. Way at the Royal Agricultural Society . |
| 24 | The glued-on neck is made from three pieces of maple and capped with a fingerboard of tight-grained ebony . |
| 25 | Most are egg shaped , made of enamel and decorated in a variety of designs . |
| 26 | Therefore it can be first planted in a shallow container of clay , sand or peat , covered over with 5 to 6 inches of water and maintained at a temperature of around 70°F . |
| 27 | Suddenly , in slow motion , the stern rope slackened and the hairdresser was teetering , valiantly to begin with , but inevitably out of control and doomed to a watery safety-netless future . |
| 28 | During his journey he cycled the bridge over the River Kwai , pedalled the peaks of Nepal and collided with a kangaroo in Australia . |
| 29 | Here is Thomas 's final piece , which is presented in type because the original was written on a large piece of paper and integrated with a beautiful line drawing of the piece of wood . |
| 30 | The first three of the boots I tested are all fabric ( Cordura ) , reinforced with varying amounts of suede and fitted with a Gore-Tex bootie . |