Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 2 | I agreed with Gyggle , only by entering the dreamscape , the hypercast of my hotted-up mind , could I hope to resolve this paradox and once and for all free myself from the malevolent force which I felt had shaped my life . |
| 3 | ‘ If anyone supposes ’ , she wrote , ‘ that my power of speaking was a gift that came naturally to me , without any effort on my part , let them once and for all dispossess themselves of any such ideas . |
| 4 | But it was too late , or perhaps I forced the confession out of myself , determined once and for all to rid myself of the burden of this secret . |
| 5 | The town imported raw jute and from 1832 mixed it with whale oil to produce a material capable of being woven into coarse fabrics such as hessian and sailcloth . |
| 6 | Not only did the King fail to punish him , he granted him additional revenues , and in 1703 elevated him to Earl of Stair . |
| 7 | But already the attraction of entertainment was strong ; Steen spent most of his limited pocket-money on tickets for the music hall and in 1923 launched himself as Mario , the Melodic Whistler . |
| 8 | He loyally implemented Nehru 's policies of anti-colonialism and non-alignment , and in 1954 accompanied him to China . |
| 9 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 10 | Oil production overtook coal production in 1979/80 ( in thermal value terms ) for the first time in UK history and in 1983 exceeded it by more than 70% . |
| 11 | Daphne Rye , the top casting director , looked after him following his demob and in 1948 ushered him into the West End in a literary play — from a book by Elizabeth Bowen — Castle Anna , which Daphne herself directed . |
| 12 | She took a dislike to it , however , and in 1692 allowed it to be demolished so that the building materials could be sold . |
| 13 | The poet George Dyer [ q.v. ] took a personal interest in Cristall and in 1797 introduced her to Robert Southey [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | For its next reincarnation , I rearranged , revised and slightly augmented the text of the Queen article , replacing the new introductory essay with the original one from Nova , and in 1969 published it in booklet form under the title Syllabubs and Fruit Fools . |
| 15 | Murchison recognized the boy 's ability , arranged for his entry to the Royal School of Mines , where he studied under Thomas Huxley and ( Sir ) Andrew Ramsay [ qq.v. ] , and in 1862 recruited him to the Geological Survey of Scotland . |
| 16 | He bought the eighteenth-century Letheringsett Hall from the Breretons , and in 1808 engulfed it in Greece , adding this south front of giant Doric columns , which were an exact copy of the temple of Delos on Isis . |
| 17 | He was also closely associated with Stephenson in his experiments with steam locomotives , and in 1821 accompanied him to Darlington , where they met Edward Pease [ q.v. ] and discussed the projected Stockton–Darlington railway line . |
| 18 | On the other hand it was necessary to acquire an elementary understanding of the issues involved , examine previous work on measuring the required parameters and in particular learn something about canopy structure so as to assess the extent to which it would need to be taken into consideration . |
| 19 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 20 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
| 21 | When the Tory-dominated House of Commons predictably decided in favour of the two Tories , " the Mobile " celebrated the news by carrying an effigy of one of the Whig candidates " round the Towne , shouting and huzzaing , and at last threw him into a Bonefire , and burnt him as a Martyr to the dying Whigg Cause " . |
| 22 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |