Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 2 | The core Marxist value is freedom — freedom from exploitation , freedom from the coercion of others , and freedom to realize oneself in creative labour . |
| 3 | And Lisa hated herself for that . |
| 4 | It was a statement of fact rather than the opening shot in an argument and Trent accepted it as such . |
| 5 | They were gradually weaned off the drugs and Valnet treated them with internal doses of essential oils instead . |
| 6 | The king there is Abimelech , and Sarah finds herself in another royal harem . |
| 7 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 8 | All these complicated arrangements of status and privilege contained plenty of combustible material . |
| 9 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 10 | Our thanks to them and to everyone who gave so generously of their time and money to help us through this difficult time . |
| 11 | Your valuable work — crowned by the high distinctions and titles awarded you by some prestigious scientific , cultural , and educational institutions from various countries of the world represents , much to the pride of all our people , a greatly important contribution to ensure the flourishing of the national and universal science and culture , as a brilliant example of revolutionary abnegation and deep concern with the cause of Socialist Romania 's flourishing and the cause of all the nation 's progress and civilization . |
| 12 | Scholes is not a Marxist , but his American cultural populism has affinities with recent Marxist writing ; at the same time , Hirsch and Scholes find themselves in unexpected agreement . |
| 13 | It put me in mind of the man I met there , and Ill tell you for free , you 're nothing like him . |
| 14 | It was already deep in debt , after repeated maladministration and corruption amongst its earlier inmates , and Wolsey seized it in 1525 . |
| 15 | His refusal on condition that the husband and mistress put themselves in sexual ‘ quarantine ’ was overturned in the Appeal Court , where one judge described the decision as ‘ indefensible . ’ |
| 16 | She had five children , and her own independent income , and Creevey married her in 1802 . |
| 17 | Fairbrother was shuffling reluctantly out of the stone doorway as he returned , and Richard greeted him with sarcastic cheerfulness . |
| 18 | ‘ The city is too easily stereotyped as a bleak and industrial wasteland full of flat-capped frustrated poets and musos consoling themselves with endless amounts of ale . |
| 19 | The notices were poor and Ken cocooned himself in one of those invisible cloaks that he believed protected him from any contact with the outside world . |
| 20 | ‘ Ice ? ’ he enquired , as he reached for a glass and Shiona seated herself in one of the armchairs . |
| 21 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
| 22 | Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history . |
| 23 | The clash between human and divine presents us with two spheres , each with right on its side , pointing forward to a reconciliation in line with the Aeschylean view of Fate enthroned above gods and men as eternal justice . |
| 24 | And David says it for all of us , I was born in sin and shapen in inequity . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 26 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 27 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 28 | Tone regulating — filmogenic actions help prevent facial expressions and movements transforming themselves into visible signs of skin ageing . |
| 29 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 30 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |