Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A simple family record should be equally simple in its choice of words and spoken in a natural and relaxed tone of voice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At her farewell , GM gave a vote of thanks and presented with a nest of mahogany tables on behalf of the company . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The sky overhead was empty of stars and hung like a purple-blue cloth around the ship as it drifted towards the horizon where a fiery red glow lit the gateway to Hell . |
| 11 | A 15-year-old boy was attacked by a group of youths and robbed of a gold chain in the Smith 's Dock Park area of Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | Why , for that matter , do they prepare these deeds in one continuous sentence , interspersed with a myriad of semicolons and finalised with a colon ? |
| 13 | It is particularly noted for its dome with high drum , supported on pendentives and pierced with two rows of windows and crowned by a stone ribbed cupola ( 313 ) . |
| 14 | The tube was concealed behind a chest of drawers and connected to a box . |
| 15 | Trade unions , on the other hand , after enjoying a brief period of vigorous growth in the immediate aftermath of their legalization in 1906 , were subjected to a variety of restrictions and reduced to a skeletal and precarious existence . |
| 16 | Marianella was taken alive by a group of soldiers and put into a helicopter . |
| 17 | Suddenly the road grew wider and the trees were left behind as they reached a small town of almost glaringly white buildings set against a backdrop of hills and fronted by a tiny harbour . |
| 18 | The landlord grinned , listed the contents of his larder , and within the half-hour served a couple of pullets stuffed with herbs and covered with a piquant sauce of sweet butter and wild berries , a skillet pasty , an apple tansy , and a prodigious marrow pudding . |
| 19 | Her headdress made from slipper satin and lace was trimmed with pearls and worn with a three tier long veil , both designed and made by Wizard of Goz in Kensington . |
| 20 | This would be prefaced by asparagus , a traditional choice for weddings in my family ; and followed by raspberries , to my mind the most exquisite of summer fruits , served either pure and simple with a little cream , or combined with redcurrants and packed into a bread-lined basin to make summer pudding . |
| 21 | We did n't even have liquid or powders then , just Sunlight soap , which Mother cut into pieces and dissolved in a large iron pan on the fire . |
| 22 | I started clearing the site : the leaning shed became firewood , and the other was dismantled into panels and sold to a friend . |
| 23 | His corpse was boiled , the flesh separated from the bones , stuffed with spices and sealed in a lead coffin and taken to Jedburgh Abbey to be amongst his ancestors . ’ |
| 24 | Nestling peacefully amongst the mine sweepers and patrol vessels in Albert Dock was the P&O Thames sailing barge , Will , dressed overall with flags and used for a variety of on board functions during her stay . |
| 25 | For no apparent reason , the children and driver were herded into vans and taken to a remote rock quarry where they were sealed into an underground cavern . |
| 26 | Steamed or grilled or microwaved trout , stuffed with prawns and served with a large salad or assorted vegetables . |
| 27 | The prisoner , a woman who had refused to confess her adultery to the Inquisitor , was brought out in chains and bound to a post set in the ground . |
| 28 | NUTRITIONIST Sarah Godden , 23 , has a special interest in dietetics and trained as a dietician at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridgeshire . |
| 29 | When debt and equity securities fall into neither of the previous two categories , they would be classified as securities available for sale and reported at fair value , but any unrealised gains and losses would be excluded from earnings and reported as a separate component of shareholders ' equity . |
| 30 | The mix is baked for 20 minutes in moulds and served with a vegetable cream sauce , lentils , and sautéed mushrooms . |