Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden . |
| 2 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
| 3 | That night he took a midnight train to London , searched for her all day , and had his first demanding quarrel with her in a Chinese restaurant at five o'clock in the afternoon , blue-jowled with fear and tiredness , and smelling of the stale smells of travellers . |
| 4 | The basis of that conception must be that citizenship begins at twenty-one ; that up to that age all boys and girls are wards of the State and are to be regarded as in a state of tutelage ; and that during these twenty-one years no effort must be spared to give each one according to his capacities , and limited by no other considerations , the fullest opportunity to develop every innate power . |
| 5 | A man-made millpond with a splashing waterfall can be seen and heard from the rear rooms . |
| 6 | Everything I have seen and heard in the ensuing months reinforces my belief that drift-netting is a manifestation of an attitude which , unchecked , will in due course murder the only planet on which we can make our home . ’ |
| 7 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 8 | The traditional geometric values of the model are handled and checked by the functional relationships and used in the pictorial constructions . |
| 9 | Correct clearance between these entities can be established and checked against the desired relationships . |
| 10 | It was the wildest party Britain had seen , and the media had a field day with a revelling of nude and painted bodies , cavorting to fine music under a dense cloud of cannabis smoke and punctuated by the occasional screams of an acid drop gone wrong . |
| 11 | The artist has created a marvellous pattern out of the limbs of beasts and men superposed in parallel planes stepped back to the ground and punctuated by the frontal heads of the near oxen ; a sophisticated and brilliantly successful design . |
| 12 | Mix equal parts of baking powder and water and pat on the sunburnt areas . |
| 13 | In deaf clubs and institutes throughout the country , there was also much fund-raising and knitting for the armed services . |
| 14 | She sat there , her feet on tiptoe , just reaching the black and white floor , and gazed at the glazed bumps of the linen towel hanging from a hook on the back of the door , the little wash-basin shaped like a scallop shell , the black and white edging of the tiles above . |
| 15 | Victoria , oddly quenched , sat at Aunt Margaret 's feet and gazed at the shifting patterns in the fire , singing to herself a wordless , keening song . |
| 16 | Helen leaned over my shoulder and gazed at the long lines of boy scouts , girl guides , ex-servicemen , with half the population of the town packed on the pavements , watching . |
| 17 | The landlord turned and spat into the dirty rushes . |
| 18 | Branches cracked from trees and plunged into the turbulent waters behind Tallis , who clutched her cloak and cowl , holding them tightly against the tearing wind . |
| 19 | and sit in the front rows for any play |
| 20 | Taken together , these forms of differentiation have produced a highly complex pattern of cultural diversity , although the existence of this cultural pluralism must not be taken to imply a basic equality of power and influence between the various groups . |
| 21 | The spread of Communist ideas and influence among the middle classes and among the steadily expanding constituency Labour parties , was achieved much more rapidly than in the past . |
| 22 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
| 23 | The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting . |
| 24 | It is approached along a forty-mile-long fiord and the approach instructions are that the pilot should turn left at the entrance by the sunken freighter that sticks up in the fiord , or else run out of airspace and crash into the sheer mountains that rise to seven thousand feet at the end of it . |
| 25 | She was admitted , now , to the feasting-hall of the King , and placed at the long women 's table presided over by Marietta of Patras , the King 's serene and excellent mother . |
| 26 | Less worried than Kennedy by the inevitable opposition of southern white politicians , Johnson plunged into the fray and pressed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the face of prolonged southern senatorial opposition . |
| 27 | Nothing could be more splendid than the decoration of the Cathedral — velvet and ermine — gold and silver — flags and hangings of all colours were combined and harmonized with the splendid costumes of the Clergy , the uniforms civil and military , and the magnificent dresses of the ladies . |
| 28 | Usually they cleared underbrush and weeds from the rubber groves from one o'clock until sunset , but the new quotas ordered by Duclos that morning meant they had to tap and collect from more than a hundred extra trees through the hot afternoon although their energies were largely spent . |
| 29 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 30 | My Group was anxious that all teachers should understand and think about the ideological assumptions implied by their approach to the teaching of English , for this is one way to overcome dogmatism . |