Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breeze rattled Eochaid 's springing black hair over his ears and pulled at the ends of his lashes . |
| 2 | After the judgment , Mr Ashton was approached by a group of irate depositors and questioned about the return of their money . |
| 3 | He held the control column between his legs and sprawled across the cockpit , his frozen nose over the edge , and allowed Jane Ashton to drift around inside his head like smoke . |
| 4 | He lay sprawled against the foot of the bank with the full weight of the BMW across his legs and pinned between the wind and the growing force of the water like a fly between the pages of a book . |
| 5 | Taking hold of a strong branch , he finally cleared the escape hatch with his legs and dropped to the ground . |
| 6 | Put it inside your trainers and run around the garden . |
| 7 | Like a sea-anemone it will close down to a blob if touched , and it feeds on small organisms which brush past its tentacles , by shooting out special poisonous threads to paralyse its victim , which can then be collected by the tentacles and drawn into the hydra 's mouth . |
| 8 | He tripped over his groceries and sprawled on the pavement at the mouth of the alley . |
| 9 | The senior chief inspector and I have made the best estimate we can of the savings that can be made in the complement of Her Majesty 's inspectorate based in local offices and engaged in the inspection of schools in liaison with local education authorities . |
| 10 | I took the steps in big bounds and pelted across the asphalt to the school gates . |
| 11 | My life as the wife of a veterinary surgeon is surrounded by animals and dominated by the telephone . |
| 12 | He failed to do all he could for the Jews and socialised with the Nazis too easily for the Poles ' liking . |
| 13 | The head of the ‘ effigy ’ is a wax portrait — Bentham 's own head was removed , desiccated , provided with glass eyes and placed under a glass dome to sit between the feet of the auto-icon ; it , too , is now on public display — a little start-eyed , yet nevertheless recognizable ( Col. 3 ) . |
| 14 | Ruth lowered her eyes and clutched at the banister of the stairs . |
| 15 | The man saw the determination in Mauer 's eyes and returned to the kitchen , closing the door behind him . |
| 16 | He grabbed two goals and signed as an apprentice for his home club . |
| 17 | James dropped his pen , adjusted his spectacles and fumbled through the back of the score-book . |
| 18 | Management appeared to regret this , to some extent at least because they themselves were master craftsmen and committed to the notion of craft skill . |
| 19 | All eyes , assisted by lenses ground to various prescriptions and set into a range of tasteful frames , rest upon us . |
| 20 | So Cornelius crept off to the bathroom , performed fastidious ablutions , togged up in the vile pyjamas and returned to the bedroom . |
| 21 | As well as the Coronation , the crowds lining the rain-soaked streets of London , and at street parties and gathered round the spate of new television sets the Coronation had sparked , were also celebrating some news from the other side of the world . |
| 22 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 23 | The local authority appealed against that part of the order by which the justices purported to direct that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continued involvement with L. on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had no jurisdiction to attach a condition to the care order which had been agreed by the parties and approved by the justices ; ( 2 ) in the alternative , the justices had no jurisdiction to make the direction , because ( i ) it had the effect of fettering the discretion of the local authority in the exercise of its functions under section 33 of the Children Act 1989 , and ( ii ) the justices had no power to order the guardian ad litem to ‘ have continued involvement ’ once the proceedings had been concluded by the making of an order under section 41 of the Children Act 1989 ; and ( 3 ) the justices had no jurisdiction to make a direction which anticipated a further application before the court , the justices power to give directions in respect of future applications being confined to a prohibition of further specified applications under section 91(14) of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 24 | Capital receipts would normally be credited to reserves and recorded in the balance sheet . |
| 25 | All drugs were dissolved in dimethylformamide to 2 mM solutions and stored in the dark at -20°C . |
| 26 | Briefly , dialysis tubing of 6 mm diameter was filled with 2 ml of either of the two test solutions and left in the rectum for a period of one hour . |
| 27 | Cheques should be made payable to Tate Gallery Liverpool Supporters and addressed to the Membership Secretary , |
| 28 | Agent Monteith refused it , pressured by the settlers ' supporters and frustrated by the Wallowa band 's reluctance to farm . |
| 29 | Encouraged by his supporters and lured by the promise of a genuine title challenge , he could n't resist . |
| 30 | Usually , this is granted to publications written by the clergy and approved by the church — in our case , it was awarded for services to the lesbian and gay community , and for generally being a good magazine . |