Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 2 | He deals , breaks and rides out for a local National Hunt trainer to keep in the sport and would be delighted with any financial help — large or small . |
| 3 | The noise starts as a light tapping and builds up to a louder noise then stops suddenly . |
| 4 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 5 | The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden . |
| 6 | A heron appears , flapping ponderously across the voe and drops down beside a second bird I have n't seen , which is standing motionless in the shallows . |
| 7 | She says she also sleeps better and wakes up with a clearer head which is not the sort of image she portrayed a couple of years ago when all the pressures she was facing caused her to hit the bottle again . |
| 8 | The spacious lounge has a bar for a relaxing drink and leads out onto a surrounding , shaded terrace . |
| 9 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
| 10 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
| 11 | Director Atom Egoyan weaves sex , censorship and second-hand experience into his theme , and ends up with a reflective movie that 's also both faltering and uncertain |
| 12 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 13 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 14 | Although the path at this stage is packed solid with shuffling picnickers , it 's a beautiful little track , especially when it emerges from the gorge and opens up into a wide glen where the Allt Coire a' Mhail tumbles to the Water of Nevis via a narrow and dramatic waterfall . |
| 15 | Manure : Cow or horse manure can be composted and breaks down into an inoffensive material that is used as a compost base by a number of manufacturers . |
| 16 | Rainbow freezes them all into silence with a daredevil lanecrossing manoeuvre , and pulls up with an intentional lurch in a crowded lay-by . |
| 17 | Eventually the blue shift declines to zero and changes over to a red shift . |
| 18 | This uncompromising line by the main resistance groups implies that the USSR would need to maintain a political and military commitment to any Afghan regime which includes a PDPA component and emerges out of an international settlement . |
| 19 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 20 | All too soon , the finest rocky clough in the Dark Peak levels out at around the 1500 feet contour and falls back at an easy angle towards Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow Head . |
| 21 | And zips out for a quick change into a respectable blazer ( one of Aunt Rebecca 's unused presents , a recent salvo in the family campaign to smarten up the recalcitrant niece ) and an unrumpled pair of cords . |
| 22 | There are many different varieties of scabetic mite infesting various mammals , and , although the mites from different animals appear to be similar , they are probably species specific because infestation by the mite from domestic animals does not ‘ take ’ in the human and dies out after a few weeks . |
| 23 | GREG CAMPBELL casts an eye over the principal contenders and comes up with a Victorian prop . |
| 24 | ‘ 2 Hell With Common Sense ’ does just what its title urges and comes up with a startling , confident clutch of songs . |
| 25 | Professor Zeitung has delved into Jeffrey Archer 's childhood to explain why he writes the way he does , and comes up with an extraordinary finding — Jeffrey Archer never had a childhood ! |
| 26 | CONTINUING the Cockerton theme set by the Alma , Fountain of the Week digs deep into the flowerbeds of the village green and comes up with an historic geezer . |