Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I 'm saying is , I doubt if there are men practising the Black Arts and meeting on a regular basis for drunken orgies the way Parsons ’ and Dashwood 's men did . |
| 2 | Any schemes which promote the arts and lead to a wider understanding are obviously most welcome . |
| 3 | Moldovan President Mircea Snegur imposed a state of emergency and direct presidential rule on March 28 , and called on the population to prepare to fight for the " motherland " , following a month of skirmishes and fighting in the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic [ for formation in September 1990 see p. 37723 ] . |
| 4 | Cassettes were reviewed and discussed in type-written fanzines and distributed in the same manner as cassettes , hand to hand . |
| 5 | My father loved old time Music Hall songs and hits from the Gay Nineties like ‘ Good-bye , Dolly Grey ’ , and ‘ Soldiers of the Queen ’ , and one of his favourites was ‘ Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 6 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 7 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 8 | But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single . |
| 9 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 10 | ‘ Just a case of first-night nerves , ’ I mutter , unlocking my legs and grasping at the steaming mug.Ruthie Henshall opens tonight in Crazy For You at the Prince Edward Theatre , London . |
| 11 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 12 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
| 15 | The women work and eat and sleep in an atmosphere thick with impalpable hairs and tainted with the sickly smell of the skins … the average daily earnings are 1/1d . |
| 16 | The boys play the role of husbands and behave in the same way as they see their fathers do in their respective homesteads . |
| 17 | The history of religions is a history of intolerance and cruelty towards non-believers , and the love extends only to those who are believers and loved by the same supernatural being . |
| 18 | The channel of communication is the copper wire which carries the electrical signals and runs to the distant end . |
| 19 | I saw women dealing with having kids and working at the same time and the kids were happy because of the closeness with their mother . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is a shortage of industrial sites in the South-east of England and rentals are now coming up after lagging behind offices and housing through the late 1980s . |
| 22 | ‘ We are starting now , love David ’ , said the first sheet , which was promptly glued to the T of the great , gold SALT 'S sign hijacked from the mill offices and hoisted above the 15 by 9 ½ft frame divided into 144 sections for the fax picture . |
| 23 | The Movement put up municipal candidates and worked with the Communist Party and the ILP for the " immediate demands " of the unemployed . |
| 24 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 25 | Cupping his hand beneath Beth 's elbow , he looked deep into her eyes and said in a quieter voice , ‘ Do n't feel bad . |
| 26 | He screwed up his eyes and stared into the middle distance . |
| 27 | He narrowed his eyes and stared at the distant wall of the Tower . |
| 28 | He just shut his eyes and hoped for the best . |
| 29 | They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’ |
| 30 | In the Wheelhouse of RCTV Audemer , Corporal Fisher rubbed his tired eyes and looked along the thirty-three-metre length of the RCL and its now empty cargo deck , capable of carrying up to ninety-six tonnes of vehicles or freight . |