Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On or around them the chief bookshops are to be found . |
| 2 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 3 | Greenall is a centre-half and between them the experienced pair have clocked up more than 700 League appearances . |
| 4 | In the foreground are the old bogies , in the background the old top-cover , and between them the newly-constructed sides . |
| 5 | C , on the other hand , has to be clear and reasonably accurate ; and for him the historical terminology must be correctly used . |
| 6 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 7 | A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment . |
| 8 | Up the hill from the south-west a gentle breeze was blowing , and opposite him a huge chestnut tree , already infected with the beautiful rust of autumn , stirred in sympathy with the wind . |
| 9 | On landings above and below them the same routine was in practice . |
| 10 | To his left were three NYPD police cars , parked bumper to bumper , and behind them a human chain of police officers , all armed with handguns and rifles . |
| 11 | A Mercedes and a Zim , bumper to bumper , blocking both lanes of the carriageway and behind them the menacing silhouette of a T-77 tank , its barrel aimed directly at the oncoming van . |
| 12 | He gripped a pair of reins in his hand and behind him a blaze-faced chestnut nosed at the cobbles , whilst the two wolves sat by his feet . |
| 13 | His sports paper having mysteriously disappeared , the Duty Officer scratched furiously at a vast form , a flush , as ominous as a gathering storm began to show on Frau Nordern 's neck , and then the door of the office opened , the Sergeant came out , and behind him a stocky man in plain clothes , smoking a cigar , and blinking through bloodshot eyes , waved Frau Nordern forward . |
| 14 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 15 | I could hear the talk at the next table , the staccato clatter of Mexican , and behind me the piercing voice of an American woman . |
| 16 | A huge rocky outcrop at the far end jutted up and beneath it a small river or burn flowed quietly , turning and twisting as it followed its banks . |
| 17 | They have a third canal in a horizontal plane and beneath it a large sac . |
| 18 | Or to take a comparison from fishing , she was bait : soft , swirling gracefully , juicy , to be gobbled in a mouthful , sucked in and with her the impaling point of the hard property deal also known as marriage . |
| 19 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |
| 20 | The conditions of the farm worker , and with them the everyday life of the village community , could vary considerably across the country according to the distribution of landholding , the nature of agricultural production and the pattern of settlement . |
| 21 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 22 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 23 | Wars became ever more expensive , and with them the national debt rose to heights that to contemporaries seemed awesome ( see Table 9.2 ) . |
| 24 | Instead , it was in western Europe that the mechanical clock first appeared and with it a new type of civilization based on the measurement of time . |
| 25 | There had been earlier moves towards international integration , but the 1950s saw a new impetus and with it a new school of thought emerging to claim that the sovereignty of the state was being eroded . |
| 26 | Despite a new relationship between philanthropy and the state being forged , and with it a new role for the voluntary social worker , there remained the old focus on family , home , and character . |
| 27 | The 80s had arrived , and with it a new form of ‘ exercise ’ which caught on fast . |
| 28 | The pendulum has swung on both sides of the Atlantic , and if the sexual habits of urban America had been transformed in the 1960s by the so-called sexual revolution , then the small-town traditions of middle America found their own political voice a decade later , and with it a judicial response from the highest court in the land . |
| 29 | Shell have a large oil refinery at Stanlow near Ellesmere Port and with it a petrochemical works producing plastics . |
| 30 | But if the argument from error does rely on PC k , which on his theory is invalid , he lacks that independent support and with it a considerable degree of plausibility . |