Example sentences of "and [verb] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They spend time getting to know their workers and develop a situation of trust so that their employees feel able to bring problems to them . |
| 2 | A down-at-heel English journalist , Charles Beadle , lived nearby and shared a passion for gardening with Beatrice . |
| 3 | Section 1 of the Education ( Scotland ) Act 1981 gives parents a right to select the school they wish their children to attend and imposes a duty on education authorities to comply with parental choice , unless one of a limited number of circumstances applies . |
| 4 | The relatively low slewing rate of the LM308A is responsible for this and imposes a limit on clock frequency of 15kHz if such an eventuality is at all likely . |
| 5 | So I was persuaded , and planned a start at dawn . |
| 6 | Finally he jumped up , when he thought the appropriate moment had arrived , and whipped a blast of abuse across the table . |
| 7 | Lisabeth was sitting apart from them reading a newspaper and eating a bar of chocolate . |
| 8 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 9 | While they waited in the room , which was furnished like a nursing home , with the child reading a comic on the bed and eating a bag of shortbread biscuits , she thought that it was as well to be next door to the railway station in case she had to get away quickly . |
| 10 | He co-wrote a song with me on my new album and plays a bit of guitar . |
| 11 | I watched for the gas station on Harvey 's map and turned off on to an unmade road that kicked up stones against the underside of the Rambler and laid a film of dust across the tinted windscreen . |
| 12 | In 1988 an Alabama jury convicted 15-year-old Clayton Flowers of capital murder and recommended a sentence of life in prison without parole . |
| 13 | Opinions vary , however , as to the form of air pollution policies in structure plans , the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for example felt that the only way to control the air we breathe is by indirectly limiting emissions and recommended a system of air quality guidelines for major pollutants which could be adopted by local authorities and incorporated in their structure plans . |
| 14 | Following the publication of the White Paper , Understanding British Industry ( UBI ) was contracted to the Department of Trade and Industry in order to set up , monitor and evaluate a series of pilot programmes . |
| 15 | Second , it could be argued that this system removes any incentive for sound financial control at local level and constitutes a divorce between management responsibility and financial accountability of the kind severely criticized by the 1976 Layfield Report on local government finance . |
| 16 | A manufacturer takes responsibility for his product 's compliance and signs a declaration of conformity to say that the equipment meets an appropriate European ‘ harmonised ’ standard . |
| 17 | Although she had climbed the West Face of the Romsdalhorn , shared leads on the Third Sella Tower and led a rope up Store Skagastoltind in the Jotenheim , she was convinced she 'd not yet experienced the full horrors and rigours of a ‘ real ’ alpine day . |
| 18 | He shifted uncomfortably on the chair and wiped a bead of sweat that ran down the side of his face . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's when the beast started to change and became a sheep in wolf 's clothing . |
| 20 | It was a vague enough concept for the left-liberals to unite around , and became a kind of surrogate nationalism . |
| 21 | That old plastic bird appeared on all my ships from then on and became a kind of ship 's mascot , travelling all over the UK with us . |
| 22 | The Battalion at this time was left with only five officers and 100 other ranks , and became a line of communication battalion . |
| 23 | Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies . |
| 24 | Klingenzell priory , between the castles Liebenfels and Freudenfels , was founded in 1333 and became a place of pilgrimage . |
| 25 | I was left an orphan at an early age and became a ward of court . |
| 26 | See which courses they can put round what and squeeze a bit of money out of it . |
| 27 | Trust you to lower the tone of the whole conversation and introduce a note of clitoris envy at the same time . ’ |
| 28 | to take over all public transport in the London area and placed a Bill before Parliament early in April , to enable this to happen . |
| 29 | The Scottish sports minister , Sir Hector Monro , said yesterday that the number of incidents gave cause for universal concern and placed a strain on mountain rescue services . |
| 30 | Rupert , left alone with Ianthe and Penelope , found himself heaving a sigh of relief , flopping down into a chair , and suggesting a cup of tea . |