Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed to do all he could for the Jews and socialised with the Nazis too easily for the Poles ' liking . |
| 2 | Collections of small objects should always be gathered together and arranged in a group rather than being thinly spread around the house . |
| 3 | One of the key findings was that for babies born outside marriage and registered by the mother alone — a total of 8% of all births in 1990 — the infant mortality rate was 13.1 ( per 1000 live births ) , 80% higher than that of babies born within marriage . |
| 4 | Plotting is revised into conspiracy and placed within the action instead of informing its structure . |
| 5 | A young boy , Michael , was admitted to compulsory care against the wishes of his parents and placed in a group home . |
| 6 | There the teaching of various trades was added to the curriculum and the number of pupils housed and taught in the school soon rose to some two hundred . |
| 7 | Hydrangea florets can be picked and pressed in the autumn when they are a lovely green shade with reddish tinges , although you may have to choose your bush carefully as they do not all have the same density of colour . |
| 8 | He let the car drift to the kerb and stopped with the lights off , watching the rear-view and wing mirrors . |
| 9 | ‘ He was wounded in the war and paralysed from the waist down . |
| 10 | The award to David Robinson , now 25 and paralysed from the neck down , came after Deputy Judge Patrick Bennett , QC , had expressed amazement at the initial failure of negotiations to reach a settlement in his damages claim . |
| 11 | It used the phrase ‘ 60 secs allowed ’ and referred to a sensor where the money was to be left . |
| 12 | On this view , a doctor could avoid liability only if he could show that , apart from consenting , the patient was carefully studied and examined in a context where specialist medical and psychiatric facilities were available , that the consensus of expert opinion was that surgery was called for , and that this was explained to and understood by the patient before he gave his consent . |
| 13 | The measurements are approximate and given as an indication only at this stage , taken from the architects ' drawings , the sizes may vary slightly after construction . |
| 14 | He produced a set of car keys and loped past the tractor about ten inches from my nose . |
| 15 | It was an inglorious episode in English history , little remembered since , and regarded at the time less as a disgrace than as a deliverance . |
| 16 | Citadel : VII , 8 on the other hand , has excellent protection but is long and sustained with the crux right at the top when abseil retreat is both difficult and uninviting . |
| 17 | When an acceptable formula was found to conceal the suspect food , the test and challenge meals were made up , labelled , and frozen by a person not involved in the study . |
| 18 | Since the tracks were not completed into Croydon , a car had to be taken by lorry to Wallington and off-loaded onto the track there ’ . |
| 19 | The enormous edifice of presumed relationships built up from careful study of homologous structures , ( the supreme example is the study of bones in the skulls of reptiles ) may have to be re-examined , and if necessary dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up . |
| 20 | She threw the brick over to the bonfire site and attacked with the fork again . |
| 21 | At Place Massena , she entered the gloomy passage to the rue du Bateau , but she did not go to the flat , she turned right and wound through the lanes instead . |
| 22 | The routes here are many and varied with the grades well represented right through the spectrum to the nasty end of E6 . |
| 23 | The planning which made Charlemagne such a successful campaigner was not limited to the organisation of the army 's stomach ; he employed extensive advance information , usually gathered and considered in the year before each campaign . |
| 24 | A LOYALIST gunman was shot and wounded by a soldier yesterday after an attack on an office run by the IRA 's political wing Sinn Fein . |
| 25 | Although the partners may remain dependent on their marriage and committed to the arrangement either for provision of a little-used but resplendent home , or for earnings to support the acquired life style , little may be shared between them socially and emotionally . |
| 26 | On 23 October a truck containing 12,000 pounds of explosives was driven into the US Marine 's barrack compound and detonated with the driver still at the wheel , killing 241 servicemen . |
| 27 | My breakfast is muesli with nuts and raisins , or two Weetabix three-quarters covered with skimmed milk , microwaved and stirred into a mush then covered with sugar . |
| 28 | A brief review of existing work in library user instruction evaluation was then given and related to the parameters previously described . |
| 29 | Against this background , the evaluation carried out in connection with the development of the programme of user instruction at Chalmers University of Technology Library has been described and related to the parameters previously given . |
| 30 | There had been a path there once but it had been ploughed up and incorporated into the field long ago . |