Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arafat went on to urge the world to take action to halt " the massacre Israel is currently committing against the Palestinian people in Rafah " ( a town and camp lying at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip ) . |
| 2 | Cattle and sheep move at a leisurely pace over the earthworks that mark where men once lived and worked . |
| 3 | Thus the pilots may be found in the Engines Section absorbing the means whereby the aviation spirit and flames arrive at the right place at the right time to produce the urge for forward movement , or they could be watching in some fascination an array of lights and switches on a array known as ‘ electrics ’ which behave themselves so well under the persuasion of the engines instructor , but which flash and fail to respond in such heart-breaking fashion when the student is urged to demonstrate that he has ‘ got ’ it . |
| 4 | Cricket is played , much food and wine consumed , and penance paid at the local village church . |
| 5 | The seasoned rockers and cabaret bores at the local pub would appreciate the fact they have travelled up and down the country , playing every decrepit club and hovel on the way . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , at that precise second , the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman , the union secretary , the workers ’ deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that representatives of both Korea and Taiwan appeared at the public hearing on the issue to argue their case , Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to grant the request for certification . |
| 8 | This requires that capital and labour grow at the same rate ; i.e. , and . |
| 9 | In side-streets , special Stasi units and paddy-wagons waited at the ready . |
| 10 | They sat for hours drinking tea in Mrs. Mounce 's flat downstairs , while Mrs. Mounce talked about her affairs with moustached men in export-import , and Tessa looked at the little bit here and the little bit there which Mrs. Mounce had done herself to brighten her own place up . |
| 11 | Thérèse and Léonie stared at the steep wall of rock , at the grass and weeds at its foot . |
| 12 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 13 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 14 | Salt was making a meal of Jess 's shortcomings and Nancy stared at the new kitchen wench while her mother nodded in her easy-going way as she took off her shawl and recaptured her dropping hairpins . |
| 15 | Both glans and prepuce are covered by stratified squamous epithelium , and separation occurs at a variable time from before birth to several years afterwards by desquamation . |
| 16 | This brings me neatly on to the exhibition of German aircraft and equipment held at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough during October and November 1945 . |
| 17 | Tickets are available at £15 , £25 and £50 , and booking opens at the Royal Festival Hall box office on 4 September . |
| 18 | It is also said to speak of low morale , falling sales and job cuts at the troubled newspaper . |
| 19 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 20 | Syl and Robert arrived at the same time and my mother poured them drinks . |
| 21 | That night the King and Wallis met at a small restaurant in Piccadilly . |
| 22 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |
| 23 | ‘ Because on the hour means just that and failure to transmit at the given time usually means one thing . |
| 24 | This last was expressed in other words as willingness ‘ to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 25 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 26 | They ran back to the house and Endill waited at the front door while his mother went to see who or what it was . |
| 27 | On Dec. 5 , 1990 , the Commission put forward proposals to make it illegal for certain airlines to agree on standard fares or to distribute all available take-off and landing slots at a particular airport among themselves . |
| 28 | If this is not diagnosed and recurrences occur at the same site , the patient will be labelled as a refractory case of non-specific urethritis and may be subjected to prolonged courses of antibiotic treatment , which , of course , will have no effect on the course of the disease . |
| 29 | Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed . |
| 30 | So are silk waistcoats and blazers priced at a knock-down £45 . |