Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on the novel by John Hersey and also featuring British actress Shirley Anne Field , the film was a mish-mash of production , but McQueen 's strong central performance and some exciting aerial bombing scenes held it together . |
| 2 | I always preferred bank fishing Toftingall and invariably had better results than from fishing from the boat . |
| 3 | He even got the guarantees that were still left on Curtis and Marsh 's contracts paid up by Downton and then negotiated huge deals with the Kane Corporation for both of them . |
| 4 | Guildford moved two points clear in Conference B with an emphatic , expected victory over Basingstoke and still have three games in hand , but a late slip-up in not inconceivable . |
| 5 | You will not do a great deal of good if you do nothing from Monday to Saturday and then run five miles on Sunday . |
| 6 | Gill Wootton , from Darlington , had the imaginative notion that it was hereditary , a link with the Duke of Cumberland son of George II who triumphed at Culloden and mercilessly annihilated surviving Jacobites . |
| 7 | Either Kuzmitch was lying ( and defectors often do ) , or Blake was a very clever spy who , despite the temptation to confide in Kuzmitch and thus get better treatment , maintained his role as a long-term sleeper agent . |
| 8 | We play Watford and then have 10 days off . |
| 9 | ‘ I had a full-time job at Saffery Champness and then crammed another day 's work in . |
| 10 | ‘ We must now bring ourselves into line with England and only play international matches on nights when they , too , have games . |
| 11 | These first raiders successfully fired 200,000 tons of fuel near Harfleur and then rowed 13 miles back to safety on 10 June bringing a lone straggler . |
| 12 | Best distinguished by its call , a loud ‘ pwit ’ , softer and lower-pitched than Meadow Pipit and usually repeated 2–3 times . |
| 13 | Moreover , the specific dictionaries were derived from smaller corpora than the GCD and therefore contained fewer entries : 5,545 ( on average ) compared to 12,475 in the GCD . |
| 14 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 15 | However , it reduces trade barriers between members of the CU and generally stimulates inter-bloc trade and reduces the share of trade with countries which are not in the Union . |
| 16 | I practise in the London Borough of Newham and also give medical advice to the family health services authority through the department of general practice and primary care of the Joint Medical Colleges of St Bartholomew 's and the London Hospitals . |
| 17 | Faulkner 's local History mentions trout , pike , carp , roach , dace , perch , chub , barbel , smelt , flounder , shad , lamprey and eel all being caught in the river off Chelsea and also records nine salmon weighing 171½ lbs . |
| 18 | He tried to get a post at the British Museum , and was most indignant when it went to George Children , a friend of Davy and thus possessing superior patronage . |
| 19 | Rover 's bucking the national trend , while Ford and Vauxhall and even Japanse giant Nissan experience a slump in sales . |
| 20 | ‘ Charlotte Graham-Watson was almost born on skis in Verbier and probably has more experience of skiing there than anyone else ! ’ |
| 21 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 22 | In the last years of Peter 's reign a considerable number of students of lower social standing were sent to Königsberg , the United Netherlands and elsewhere to learn foreign languages , though not all of these were destined to become diplomats . |
| 23 | We 'd driven all the way from Bedford to Yorkshire and then spent six hours lugging furniture and other junk around . |
| 24 | Bobby returned to Camberwell the day after VE Day and now did two classes under Minton . |
| 25 | Miss Emilia Thorne gazed at Willie , stared at Tom and then took another look at Willie . |
| 26 | Asquith returned to Downing Street and immediately began this consultation . |
| 27 | The pigmentation defects observed in PWS and AS constitute one component of these contiguous gene syndromes , independent of the primary , imprinted genetic element(s) that result in the major clinical features of these syndromes . |
| 28 | Using simple partial equilibrium analysis , and assuming perfectly competitive markets , it can be shown that there are net welfare gains to be had from eliminating NTBs and thereby allow free movement to take place . |
| 29 | On leave in 1942 he married Sylvia and then spent three years overseas . |
| 30 | ‘ Even though we try to tell this to our customers , some of them will pay £3,300 for a Broaster and then buy cheap oil . |