Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Remember when you were delivering boots for me and that boy took them from you , how did you feel then , Will ? ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps they could be down doing up somebody 's laces and that person whacks them across the top of their head . |
| 3 | All bad spirits travel in straight lines from the south , and that mountain prevents them from entering the Imperial City . " |
| 4 | Centrally organised arrangements are sometimes not appropriate and that point brings me to the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Stephen ) . |
| 5 | Small wonder that flocks of European and Scandinavian birds choose it as their resting point when migrating to more congenial climes each winter . |
| 6 | The arbiter approach dismisses instrumentalist arguments that the state apparatus operates to support capitalism because the social backgrounds , values and networks of contacts for senior bureaucrats and political leaders tie them into a directly pro-business orientation . |
| 7 | Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines . |
| 8 | One of the two largest owls of the region , an enormous , almost eagle-sized bird , the prominent ear-tufts and facial disc distinguishing it from all diurnal birds of prey . |
| 9 | It took a hundred and fifty lorries to transport it to its home in Swindon . |
| 10 | Only our deplorable ignorance of Carthaginian and Parthian jokes prevents us from assessing the local reactions to " pergraecari " , a word which Festus explains as " epulis et potationibus inservire " ( p. 235 L. ) . |
| 11 | Debt and dear money got us into it and , until we break debt 's grip , we shall never get out of it . |
| 12 | Reconstructed interiors and extensive displays take you into the world of James Herriot . |
| 13 | What else can all those live debates , public barrackings and strange hours equip you for ? |
| 14 | The school seemed cold and it was certainly dark for the main windows faced north and tall buildings surrounded it on the other three sides . |
| 15 | For weeks now Afshr 's office had been chaotic , besieged every day by rich men and rich women reminding him of past favours , promising him future ones . |
| 16 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 17 | And — in answer to the second question — the only reason that oxygen gas exists in such large amounts in the atmosphere today is that plants and some bacteria produce it in vast quantities through photosynthesis . |
| 18 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 19 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 20 | Georges Feydeau 's turn of the century French farce is a classic of its kind and this production brings it to funny , frantic life . |
| 21 | Georges Feydeau 's turn of the century French farce is a classic of its kind and this production brings it to funny frantic life . |
| 22 | and this guy got him by the throat and pinned him to the wall and said Billy shut up ! |
| 23 | Assynt is one of the loveliest and loneliest parts of the Scottish Highlands and this walk takes you through its heart . |
| 24 | The rose is one of our national flowers and this month sees it in its full glory . |
| 25 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 26 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 27 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 28 | The mayor and civic dignitaries met us in a blaze of colour at Bow Bridge with the usual greetings and pleasantries . |
| 29 | Some hours later , I do n't know how many , two abysmal and free-hanging abseils deposited us below the fangs of the bergschrund . |
| 30 | Overall , his churches and houses are no more than pleasant provincial work — examples are the rebuilding of St Julian 's church in Shrewsbury ( 1749–50 ) and Hatton Grange , Shropshire ( 1764–8 ) — but his decorative and funerary designs reveal him as a highly competent exponent of both the rococo style and the Gothic manner of Batty Langley [ q.v . ] . |