Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , as night crept over the Rorim , they met in Riven 's room and shared a few pitchers of ale . |
| 2 | Both were just 23 and shared the same love of horses , fresh air and country pursuits . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) Return to the starting position and repeat the same movement on the opposite side . |
| 4 | And they would all come through and stay a few nights with |
| 5 | She pushed it back , and wiped the same hand on the Beatrix Potter apron Harriet had made her for her birthday . |
| 6 | Mr Bush dealt with the older children first and placed a few evacuees with them at the back . |
| 7 | Rye grass is coarse and flat-leaved , and fulfils the same function in a sward as petrol-like grain spirit in cheap Scotch whisky . |
| 8 | Local pickers at Ferryside , near Carmarthen , declared war against ‘ invaders ’ who turned up with lorries to ‘ muscle in ’ and harvest the same mudbank at low tide . |
| 9 | Drape the map over the corner of the chest and make a few tears in it . |
| 10 | Again it 's cheap , and offers the least resistance to outside interference . |
| 11 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 12 | The reason he slipped out was to phone and make a few arrangements for them . |
| 13 | Check to see that they are secure and looped the same way on each half of the kite . |
| 14 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 15 | Delmar Benjamin 's GeeBee Replica flew each day and made a few passes around the pylons . |
| 16 | ‘ We had received a number of complaints about bouncing cheques and made a few inquiries into the businessmen and their activities . |
| 17 | Leonard Aldous used the same tools and made the same type of harness as his predecessors did in medieval times . |
| 18 | Most of them were accorded pseudonyms ( ‘ I will call her Sylvia ’ ) and given a few lines of narrative , where their function was little more than to illustrate our hero 's appetite and prowess . |
| 19 | One side of the sheet lists the children of Charles the Cheesemonger , starting with the birth of William Charles in 1772 and appending a few dates of death for good measure . |
| 20 | To my great surprise , I found that in all types of managerial organization in many different countries over 35 years , people in roles at the same time span experience the same weight of responsibility and declare the same level of pay to be fair , regardless of their occupation or actual pay . |
| 21 | He made two more soundings further along the bank and got the same result for both . |
| 22 | Go and push a few notes on your own piano ; there 's no one here to wince at the sound you make these days . |
| 23 | Even asset-strippers had to relax and pursue a few hobbies from time to time … |
| 24 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |
| 25 | In the near future I intend to expand this unholy alliance into a much larger tank and to try a few experiments with the set-up and some new species which I 'll no doubt relate if they 're successful . |
| 26 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 27 | Dobry 's detailed recommendations ( which totalled 161 ) were aimed in his words , at giving greater freedom to harmless development but also at guarding against harmful development by retaining the current scope of planning control ; at separating from the main stream of applications all those which might cause harm , and disposing of ‘ main stream applications ’ by rapid and routine procedures ; and applying the same approach to appeals . |
| 28 | This is not required if the relevant condition is that the parent undertaking holds a majority of the voting rights and holds the same proportion of shares as it holds voting rights |
| 29 | When creating the flower pictures themselves , I made the spring and summer designs , on the top row , curve towards each other to form a complementary pair , and used the same effect for the bottom row of autumn and winter . |
| 30 | Howard looks down at his plate , grinning , and pressing a few crumbs of cheese on to his fingers to nibble . |