Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
2 | This is essential to prepare our children for an ever-changing world and to retrain employees whose traditional role within a company will change with the advent of computers in general and micros in particular . |
3 | Paradoxically , these abolitionists were arguing that fear was supposed to induce reason and humanity and provoke policies which squared reform with stability and both with the interest of the nation . |
4 | The officials finally admitted they were wrong — and paid Pete his two weeks ' benefit of £84 . |
5 | Then she burst into tears and showed Tjolle her slashed wrists . |
6 | Elland Road 's under-soil heating has been switched on to beat the frost and give Batty his first game since suffering a hairline ankle fracture in October . |
7 | Despite this opposition , the government went ahead and enacted legislation which required magistrates to hear all complaints orally . |
8 | Our brain also colours the image , making grass a vivid green , turning skies a brilliant blue or dull grey , and giving flowers their beautiful hues . |
9 | It may be very simple and use ideas which other composers have also used . |
10 | ‘ Yes , ’ Frau Nordern sat bolt upright and gave Marx her commanding glare which , however , did not have quite the same effect on him as it had done on the Duty Officer . |
11 | Dublin 's toe-job on the end of Brian McClair 's downward header lifted United off the bottom of the Premier League and gave Fergie his first reason to smile this season . |
12 | After forming the core of a post-war consensus for over three decades since the Attlee period , the bitter legacy of the old order was now seen in the uncollected refuse bins and undug graves which popular credence ( somewhat exaggeratedly ) identified with ‘ the winter of discontent ’ . |
13 | Trudie 's efforts have won her community a bus service for the handicapped and won Trudie herself national recognition . |
14 | The show aims to promote modelling in the region and inform people what local clubs are available . |
15 | Respective coaches Lynn Evans and Tony Rodgers were in total agreement on one point — their dislike of the new ruck and maul law which both men insisted ‘ deprives the game of shape , creates offside situations around the edges which spoil back play and denies the attacking side the right to establish and sustain pressure ’ . |
16 | It is both clearer and faster than the question and answer technique which many systems employ , and should be determined by the operation number entered . |
17 | For example , for Article 4 of the proposed directive to be implemented , Britain would have to introduce legislation allowing for the searching of premises to hold and seize items which another country says there are ‘ reasonable grounds for believing ’ have ‘ been unlawfully removed from its territory ’ . |
18 | I saw his grave when I took a short cut through the churchyard — a modest , friendly , even jolly little grave , where in summer moon-daisies and red clover grew , and quaking grass which little children call shivery-shakes . |