Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
2 | Shot and shell rained in on the village , orchard and chateau grounds , tearing up the earth , smashing roofs and rafters , but causing little in the way of casualties . |
3 | To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening . |
4 | Permit me to take up our plight — try to imagine for a moment the straight and level run in to the target , " bombs gone " followed by the desperate seconds ( best described by one of my Canadian pilots as " when I bite buttons off my parachute cushion " ) before the automatic photoflash and the aiming point picture taken by the night camera . |
5 | Clearly everyone was in festive mood despite the recession , and bidding got off to a brisk start : |
6 | Her older brother and sister found out about the situation and teased her unmercifully . |
7 | To return to the shareholder example , having raised the point that it is in shareholders ' interests to ensure their returns are reasonable , it logically follows that there will be an incentive for them to spend a certain amount of time and money finding out about the firm 's activities and performance . |
8 | If she had thought of it , she would have looked before : she had registered the reporter and photographer going up to the flat above , and had said to herself that they did n't , very obviously , have the class of the young men from the London Sundays . |
9 | There was mass saluting , mass mumbling and mass pouring out of the door . |
10 | He has taken it in response to the pressure and fight put up by the ‘ homelands Chief Ministers ’ — Buthelezi and Co . |
11 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
12 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
13 | An exhibition of some of the work and research carried out by the University of Stirling was on display in the crush hall . |
14 | Support for MacDonald had remained strong among some of the 200,000 Navajo and violence broke out during a protest march on his behalf in Window Rock on July 22 ; two men died and nine were wounded when police opened fire . |
15 | One of his arms moved a little and blood ran out of the side of his head onto the wet tarmac . |
16 | There had been research and review carried out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and by International Movements Towards Educational Change ( IMTEC ) . |
17 | Gloria and Dot went down to the Town Hall once a fortnight to collect Dot 's vitamin ration . |
18 | So Gloria and Dot went back down the area steps to their room , leaving the sunshine behind . |
19 | Trend prediction is now big business to help commerce and industry keep up with the latest demands created by peer group pressure . |
20 | Kate had somehow knocked over her cup , and tea spilled on to the tray , splashing her skirt . |
21 | Tension ran high and fighting broke out among the spectators as well as among the players . |
22 | The Blumenthalstrasse address turned out to be one of the shoeboxes , a five-storey block of flats with the staircase and lift-shaft stuck on at the side of a column of frosted-glass bricks . |
23 | Fans and reviewers enjoyed the raw edge and revelled in the energy and melody thrown out of the guitar crashing mayhem . |
24 | They are the public face of the secret survival of ancient belief and practice tied up with the power of the landscape . |
25 | The noise brought Jacqui to the door and light spilled out over the scene . |
26 | The foot of the inclined way descends below the level of what may be termed the tail bay which is open at the end so that the dock and carriage run down into the water in order to bring the dock into alignment with the tail bay to allow of the vessel being hauled in or out of the dock . |
27 | The driver and fireman ran up to the inert body ; too late , the man was dead . |
28 | In this process , art can then be seen to belong to an essentially subjective stage of immediate , concrete picturing ; religion appears at that of objectifying symbols ; and philosophy breaks through to the conceptualisation in which full and genuine understanding is attained . |
29 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
30 | Timber was carted up , a tough job for any horse , and ore brought down to the Paddy End Mill in the same manner . |