Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thin figure leaned over and whispered in the sleeper 's ear . |
| 2 | He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering . |
| 3 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 4 | Power is seen as residing in office , and stemming from the bureaucrat 's high social prestige and wide discretion to act within very broadly defined colonial policies . |
| 5 | It is evident that the prosecuting authorities also had in mind to prosecute the applicant for implication in some of Mr. Turner 's offences , but a decision was taken in 1988 , and communicated to the applicant 's solicitors , that proceedings would be put back until after the B.M.F.L. trial . |
| 6 | She bent closer to the painting and gazed at the master 's signature . |
| 7 | After delivery , each workshop was evaluated by group discussion and individual questionnaires ; in addition , a number of experienced staff development personnel were asked to read and comment on the tutor 's materials . |
| 8 | She bought wine at the off licence on the corner of Market Street and plunged between the bridge 's traffic , locked solid on a Saturday evening . |
| 9 | But these bright spots were dimmed by the assassination of the Western-orientated Hashemite royal family in Baghdad on 14th July 1958 during the Nasser-inspired coup , which ended Britain 's treaty relations with Iraq and led to the RAF 's withdrawal from the Habbaniyah and Shu'aiba air bases that lay on the air-reinforcement route to the Far East . |
| 10 | Bradford , for all the Italian wine and canapes at the mill 's art gallery , looked like a dank study by Hockney 's northern predecessor L.S.Lowry . |
| 11 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 12 | The second stanza is a global view of the sun 's power and refers to the sun 's life giving properties in general . |
| 13 | The name Lakenvelder means ‘ sheeted field ’ and refers to the breed 's broad white belt on a black or red coat ; it , too , is now very rare . |
| 14 | Van Tromp going about to please his masters , ships at sea , getting a good wetting , was painted in 1844 and belongs to the university 's Royal Holloway College . |
| 15 | Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table . |
| 16 | For all of us there will be the faith challenge of living on a much reduced income and depending on the Lord 's provision for at least part of our day to day needs . |
| 17 | There were even reports of material assistance being given to protesters by local officials , such as transport to demonstrations and financing for the protesters ' co-ordinating committees . |
| 18 | I shall put the letter , the envelope and the little punctured card straight into the dustbin , wash , dress and repair to The Wife 's Legs for a hot cup of tea . ’ |
| 19 | Lord Forte will become president and remain on the group 's board . |
| 20 | Irrationally , as a man about to be beheaded notices every scratch and stain on the executioner 's block , Rincewind saw that they had overlarge tails that were bluish-white and , he realised , throbbing alarmingly . |
| 21 | Passengers like the informal atmosphere , the excellent visibility and the rapid loading and unloading through the aircraft 's five doors . |
| 22 | They 're worried that having the two groups together is a recipe for trouble , and goes against the Government 's own policy . |
| 23 | A devotee praying before the idol and gazing at the God 's face is thus influenced by an electro-magnetic field which interacts with the devotee 's own bioenergy field . |
| 24 | The matter was discussed and referred to the council 's working party for investigation . |
| 25 | The Act set up a detailed assessment procedure for ascertaining these needs , giving parents the right to be consulted , and to appeal against an LEA 's decision about appropriate provision . |
| 26 | In our case , of course , it is a mature , open and enquiring critical mind that leads us to read on into the churls ' tales of " harlotrie " , not a degrading taste for such material and a lack of interest in : We might see the combination of the intrinsically low status of the Miller and the consequently low expectations of what he will produce with the sophistication of his narrative performance as simply an entertaining absurdity , or perhaps a burlesque , like Chauntecleer 's discursive pomp and display in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale . |
| 27 | But that is a very different matter from the exegetically unjustified expedient adopted by some modern students of mission , of divorcing the Spirit from Jesus , evading the scandal of his particularity , and attributing to the Spirit 's agency whatever seems to them to be admirable in the beliefs and practice of other faiths . |
| 28 | Thin sections were cut parallel to the substratum , stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate , and examined with a Jeol 100CXII electron microscope at 80kV . |
| 29 | Before anyone goes in and sits on the dentist 's chair which forms the centrepiece of the cage , Dr Tydeman will first monitor them using some external equipment . |
| 30 | Insiders claim the Okidata machine , with its fairly respectable 30 SPECmark rating , was badly mismanaged and misdirected by the division 's top echelons . |