Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 2 | She was big , well-off , theatrical , and lived above a butcher 's shop in Shepherds Market , Mayfair . |
| 3 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 4 | According to this model , deviance is a property which is created and sustained by a community 's response to an act as deviant . |
| 5 | Some months later she became a paid organizer for the WSPU , and moved into a worker 's tenement in the Euston Road . |
| 6 | Authorisation is in the hands of the Department of Trade and Industry and depends upon a trust 's deed meeting at least the following conditions : |
| 7 | If parents do not care and praise and listen to a child 's reading , schoolteachers ca n't easily make them literate . |
| 8 | It was wrapped up in black-and-white striped paper and twisted like a unicorn 's horn . |
| 9 | The man who refused to take part was court martialled , cashiered and sentenced to a year 's hard labour . |
| 10 | The face was female , sculpted , golden , mellow , ideal and framed by a lion 's mane of light . |
| 11 | His Pilgrim 's Progress was by far the most popular book in the cottages of the poor , and in Apollyon he had conjured up a monster fit for any fable : scaled , bear-footed , dragon-winged and breathing fire and smoke from a lion 's mouth . |
| 12 | The body is fingerprinted and buried in a pauper 's grave on Hart Island . |
| 13 | So oft we went , leaving Pop at ‘ Prospect Lodge ’ in Simla ( a holiday home for missionaries ) until he was asked to go down to Poona and look after a soldiers ' club . |
| 14 | This was standard practice , both in tournaments and in war , but the French knight , he said , broke parole and escaped on a squire 's rouncy . |
| 15 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 16 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 17 | And if minute ice crystals break away from these frozen drops and get into a monarch 's body through one of its breathing holes , they can , as it were , remind the fluid inside that it , too , should be frozen . |
| 18 | Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth . |
| 19 | Life cycle analysis is a cradle-to-grave study of the materials and energy used and release during a product 's lifetime — including its production , use , transport and disposal . |
| 20 | The quarters of a small animal were wrapped in a leather sack and tied to a tree 's branch . |
| 21 | His face was round , soft and glowing like a baby 's and his gentle , grey eyes were laughing despite his verbal cynicism . |
| 22 | Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr . |
| 23 | Yet a statement of national intent concerning the learnings planned and provided for a nation 's youth is surely a document which should be available and one which needs to be open to public criticism . |
| 24 | Richard laughed at a vision of the nipple cut off and stuck like a baby 's dummy in Martin 's mouth . |
| 25 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 26 | Harbury rebelled and went to a Women 's Word press reception instead . |
| 27 | In this state his spirit was said to fly to the other world of spirits and there discover the cause of and cure for a person 's illness , the identity of a malefactor , or the nature of events destined to occur . |
| 28 | Hew will advise on the rent , help you find reliable tenants , take up their references , check them out financially , and ask for a month 's rent as a deposit against possible damage . |
| 29 | Lucien , keeping close behind , noticed that Tavalouze 's robe was a little stained , and his hair was as unshaped and straggling as a beggar 's . |
| 30 | Esther had not seen either of them since her days at Cambridge , and listened with a connoisseur 's ear to Delia 's laments about time passing , times changing , the difficulties of keeping in touch . |