Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 2 | Morrissey printed his new image on to postcards and sent them to all his friends and closest followers . |
| 3 | In addition , the commission claimed that García removed US$50,000,000 from the BCCI accounts and dispersed it in several of his own private bank accounts . |
| 4 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 5 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 6 | The foregoing considerations will , I hope , have been enough to show that , from the psychological point of view , it is no paradox that the political and social revolutions of modern times which have opposed traditional ( i. e. , paternal ) authorities and replaced them with more egalitarian ( i.e. , fraternal ) structures have also brought into being a massively enhanced state apparatus to feed the appetite for welfare provisions . |
| 7 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 8 | The man in just the pullover put his hands on his hips and faced us in all his glory . |
| 9 | David Quarmby helped her in choosing these topics and assisted her with some of her coursework . |
| 10 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |
| 11 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 12 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 13 | The same lover had made palm trees out of Edwardian ostrich feathers and tied them to all the newel posts of the four-storey staircase . |
| 14 | Benin turned back to Vasili then gripped the cassette in both hands and snapped it in half , allowing the tape to spill out on to the road . |
| 15 | It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds . |
| 16 | A powerful backblast blew one coating of dust from his clothes and replaced it with another that was tinged with soot . |
| 17 | About a week later he explained at more length that the committee had seen all the drawings and liked them with this one exception . |