Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , we nailed our box to the wall and propped up the front with a piece of wood , to make it stable enough to support the weight of our two owls . |
| 2 | Somehow the outside world had intruded and broken up the fabric of the tale . |
| 3 | He 's trampled on my alstroemerias and my dahlias , kicked out my cucumber frame and broken down the fence into the orchard . ’ |
| 4 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 5 | Louise smiled a slow smile , and smoothed down the skirt of her dress . |
| 6 | By the early 1950s the binder had been rendered out of date by the combine harvester , which cut the crop and separated out the grain in one operation . |
| 7 | To facilitate this , the conference organisers had prepared a list of topics and drawn up a list of questions which might be considered in the discussions . |
| 8 | It is significant that having conducted a review of the ‘ state of the art ’ in these areas , and drawn up a list of generalisations about the change process in education , Bolam cautions that generalisations ‘ should be regarded as working hypotheses and pointers for future study since their basis in research is weak ’ . |
| 9 | The contract was awarded in September 1990 and within six weeks CCG had mobilised and handed over a number of buildings to support the construction team on the ‘ Core Site ’ . |
| 10 | While training for preaching has happily improved since the Council , other factors have sadly hampered and slowed down the work of theological re-education . |
| 11 | So Angus got up on to the rock and held his fist high and told young McCulloch to stand the hostages on a knoll where everyone could see them and called out the oath above the drone of the pipe : ‘ We do swear — never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — of this oppressive Act . |
| 12 | Albert cut it out , snipping around the paragraph that said that her husband was the buyer in the men 's sports-clothes department of the same store , and pinned up the clipping in his room . |
| 13 | Recession is the culprit : it has slashed tax receipts and driven up the cost of unemployment benefits . |
| 14 | Last year small river craft were brought in by air or overland to Kalewa and driven down the Chindwin to the Irrawaddy . |
| 15 | Dixon — Walker — Dorigo at the back and brought in a target-man at top — the key to norways big win ( 10–0 ) vs san marino was jostein flo : he won every single duel in the air … |
| 16 | Choose a predominantly white or pastel-coloured suite , and liven up the room with colourful wall coverings , curtains or blinds and accessories , which are easier and cheaper to change than a bathroom suite . |
| 17 | On receiving confirmation of his decision from the commander , the pilot made a turn to the left and lined up the aircraft for an approach to the selected field . |
| 18 | Later , Mr Roberts added : ‘ Employing only strictly contemporary documents and some extraordinarily painstaking historical scholarship , Charmley has disinterred and raked over every stratum of the Churchill myth . ’ |
| 19 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 20 | ‘ I would have had to have come to some arrangement with Janice — separate houses , separate lives — and taken on the job of looking after Kirsty myself , even if it had meant giving up my job . ’ |
| 21 | Some have assigned it to 481 , the probable date of Childeric 's death , others to 486 , when Clovis is said to have defeated Aegidius 's son , Syagrius , and taken over the city of Soissons which he ruled . |
| 22 | They screwed the caps back on to their thermos flasks , and jammed down the lids of their now empty plastic sandwich containers . |
| 23 | But last time I climbed it I started at Wall End Farm and headed up the ravine of Redacre Gill . |