Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bustled round , putting on kettles and opening tins of biscuits and cake . |
| 2 | I 'd only really think about taking action if someone completely ripped off one of our songs and made heaps of money from it |
| 3 | A small amount of leather is left after cutting , and to my surprise this was also checked and the offcuts matched to the straps to produce the adjusting piece for two-piece leather straps , or the strap button fobs and end pieces on Klondyke 's range of webbing and stretch straps . |
| 4 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 5 | However , most contemporary football hooliganism corresponds to the outlawry of time-out forms manifested in fights between opposing fans and creating mayhem during trips abroad . |
| 6 | Most peoples of the world do not , in their conservative heart to hearts , like foreigners and display feelings of hostility ( often tinged with fear ) towards them . |
| 7 | A number of the latter equipped 728B Squadron at RNAS Hal Far , Malta to provide pilot-less target drones for RN Firestreak armed fighters and Seaslug missiles on HM warships . |
| 8 | When the new Parish Priest arrives to take up his post he is very quickly introduced to the petty jealousies and gossip mongering of village life . |
| 9 | The starter kit will be followed by full communications to provide transparent access , storing and sharing of objects distributed in multiple databases and mixed networks of Unix , VMS and Windows NT that use the Network File System protocol ; it will be available in August at $3,000 . |
| 10 | The starter kit will be followed by full communications to provide transparent access , storing and sharing of objects distributed in multiple databases and mixed networks of Unix , VMS and Windows NT that use the Network File System protocol . |
| 11 | The use of a facilitator to lead analytical review sessions and to provide data on team behaviour . |
| 12 | The choices of those with power to direct organizations and initiate changes in structure are among the determinants of organizational designs ( Child 1973 ) . |
| 13 | Another young patriot , Andrew of Moray , however , assembled further dissidents and joined forces with Wallace after a mutually enthusiastic meeting at Perth . |
| 14 | The Czech centre opened in September last year , and the Polish centre is organising its offices and recruiting staff in Warsaw , Krakow and Katowice . |
| 15 | ‘ They will go on about their willies and chopping blondes to bits , and who cares ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ They will go on about their willies and chopping blondes to bits , and who cares ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ This man ’ — she took John 's arm — ‘ could shut his eyes and walk yard by yard in his mind-down any line he 's built . |
| 18 | Ever since Tug opened his eyes and saw Doyle in front of the door , things had been different from the other mornings . |
| 19 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 20 | Bicker shaded his eyes and peered north with satisfaction . |
| 21 | While the ARC cooks were emptying crabs and boning racks of lamb , five girls were involved in their own competition for the espoir , the most promising young cook . |
| 22 | Some Pakistani weavers own their looms and sub-contract work from exporters , while others are directly employed in large manufactories . |
| 23 | The same report re-announced the prosecutions of specific groups ( street traders , casual workers , mini cab drivers and despatch riders in London , the South Coast , Birmingham and Scotland ) with the suggestion that a larger number of claimants are involved than those who come to the courts . |
| 24 | Its special force of percussive tone helps to define musical entries and mark changes of tempo . |
| 25 | This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties . |
| 26 | A new constitution , permitting the formation of political parties and guaranteeing freedom of speech , was approved in October . |
| 27 | One way to avoid selective cover only would be for the government to insist on a compulsory levy on all commercial insurance policies , and this has been suggested by the Association of Insurers and Risk Manager in Industry and Commerce ( AIRMIC ) which represents about 300 UK insurance buyers . |
| 28 | The Thames and Chilterns tourist board had nearly eight hundred members — it 's role to promote attractions and boost tourism in counties including Oxfordshire , Buckinghamshire and Berkshire . |
| 29 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 30 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |