Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes we find things like the Moan Lisa , which have been denigrated and used in lots of different ways , but some people when they see it are still overpowered by the beauty of the object . |
| 2 | A generation ago these two were roughtly equally important , and walking from one to another was acceptable . |
| 3 | To any casual observer it would have been a very comical sight A six foot one inch hulk of a man cavorting about and shouting at nothing in particular in a moonlit pool . |
| 4 | Drain peas , place in a large pan and cover with plenty of clean water . |
| 5 | Tonight 's Jeeves and Wooster has Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie playing the ingenious manservant and dimwitted aristocrat moving in the smart set of the 1930s , enjoying themselves and going to lots of wonderful parties . |
| 6 | Once pasta is cooked , strain water off through a colander and , using the same pan , add two to three tablespoons of olive oil ; heat the oil and drop in one to two tablespoons of pesto . |
| 7 | In that incomparable verse Racine surely articulates the classical and terrible conception that underlies also Virgil 's treatment of Dido : sexual passion , the erotic , understood as one undifferentiated energy running wild , fastening itself seemingly at random on this person or that one , and switching from one to another in a way that discredits all human vows of constancy . |
| 8 | I could therefore possess myself of my nephew by force if — ’ he paused for full effect and looked from one to another of the councillors ‘ — if , as Lord High Protector , I elected so to do . ’ |
| 9 | This technique has moved — to an extent — into TV programmes and film , and agency TV producers and creative groups tend to assume , automatically , that quick-cut films are understood and followed by everybody with complete ease . |
| 10 | The idea that a court is entitled to disregard a provision in an Act of Parliament on any ground must seem strange and startling to anyone with any knowledge of the history and law of our constitution , but a detailed argument has been submitted to your Lordships and I must deal with it . |
| 11 | A choreographer should translate this definition into dance terms thus : taking the moods , emotions and actions expressed , understood and observed by everyone in general and using natural gestures when applying the rules of choreographic grammar without trying to express them in any other way . |
| 12 | Even Tokyo 's toll-charge system , built in the 1960's , is only two lanes wide and narrows to one at some key junctions . |
| 13 | It also incorporated a tiny iron-framed window with thick bubble-glass panes which opened and closed on nothing in particular . |