Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ .
2 The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term .
3 And then we go beyond that , and develop it into this sort of slightly murky negative area .
4 He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’
5 Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side .
6 The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial .
7 He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia .
8 The other significant finding was that when the eleven patients receiving clozapine and extra psychotropic medication were compared with those on clozapine alone , the latter showed deterioration in logical memory ( the ability to memorize a passage , and repeat it in logical order ) .
9 Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment .
10 THE African National Congress leader , Mr Nelson Mandela , has been urged by colleagues to announce his official separation from his volatile wife , Winnie , and to strip her of political office to avoid continued embarrassment to the organisation .
11 Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine .
12 This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge .
13 It seems right to see Hubble 's greatness in recognising splendid opportunities and pursuing them with utmost devotion and superb vision .
14 One of the simplest and most reliable is Alizarin red S. Many carbonate workers routinely acid etch one-half of a thin section and stain it in acidified Alizarin red S solution before covering .
15 And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt
16 Anyway , I really was going to take the spell off straight away , but of course you have to go hopping off and get caught and land us in this mess . ’
17 clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel .
18 They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia .
19 This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg .
20 Meanwhile , he was making friends of working men and trade unionists , and devoting himself to educational work .
21 Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original .
22 There was also alarm about the practice of " occasional conformity " ( whereby Nonconformists were able to evade the provisions of the Test and Corporation Acts and qualify themselves for civil office through the occasional attendance at Anglican communion ) and the growth of Dissenting academies ( which trained future generations of Nonconformist ministers and thus helped to perpetuate the religious schism ) .
23 Such cynical behaviour and insincerity is a waste of parliamentary time and contributes nothing to democratic government .
24 PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi .
25 If you are prepared to live dangerously , you can take many of the techniques above and combine them in one image , or , you may even discover completely new applications for this superb medium .
26 A truly usable recognition system would have to learn from whole word recognition techniques and combine them in some fashion with existing segmentation techniques ( Ho et al , 1991 ; Hull et al , 1991 ) .
27 now you can stick a whole one in your mouth and eat it in one go , ca n't you Martin ? , yes Martin it is it that you did
28 I went back to Desmond and got myself into more trouble because as soon as I got out I wanted money .
29 In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more .
30 ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess .
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