Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already in my own LEA there are plans for visual arts teachers to explore and establish assessment guidelines , and to capitalize on the considerable amount of curriculum development work that has occurred over recent years . |
| 2 | He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit . |
| 3 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 4 | As the mixture becomes too stiff to stir , turn it out onto a surface dusted with cornflour or icing sugar and knead in the remaining icing sugar . |
| 5 | Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The night sky was brilliant and the stars seemed to wink like precious stones against the velvet darkness ; the streets , carpeted by ice and hard snow , shimmered and glowed under the pale moonlight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 10 | ( 1 ) These and other figures are taken from a report published by the Cardiff Business School entitled ‘ Continuity and Change in the British Port Transport Industry ( 1991 ) ’ by P Turnbull and S. Weston ( price £25 ) . |
| 11 | In order to understand continuity and change within the British policy , I propose to stress the significance of the political culture . |
| 12 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 13 | Bartram expressed gratitude for Miller 's offer to assist him in understanding Linnaeus 's system and commented on the Swedish naturalist 's publication of all the North American plants observed by Kalm on his visit ( i.e. Species Plantarum , 2 vols. 1753 ) adding , ‘ I long to see these books — to see if they have done me justice , as Kalm promised me . ’ |
| 14 | In discussion which followed ‘ many members remained sceptical as to the feasibility of the Dip.H.E. and commented on the ephemeral interest in existing Dip.H.E.s … enrolment for future courses would depend on the flexibility exercised in allowing entrants with qualifications other than two ‘ A ’ levels to enrol , and members regretted the intransigence of the DES in this matter' . |
| 15 | Tricks could be played , points made by drawing a drooping banner so that certain letters and words were obscured and altered by the folded fabric . |
| 16 | He had two political advisers : Harold Macmillan , the British Resident Minister in the Mediterranean ( holding Cabinet rank ) , whose role was to act as British political adviser and to liaise with the British Government . |
| 17 | Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard ; And he taps with his whip on the shutters , but all is locked and barred : He whistles a tune to the window , and who should be waiting there But the landlord 's black-eyed daughter , |
| 18 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 19 | Yeltsin announced a softening of economic policy , with extra credits to industries , investments in agriculture and grants to the military conversion project . |
| 20 | There are now several benefits — family credit , free school meals , housing benefit and grants from the Social Fund , for example — that can help families in financial need , but the processes of application and appeal for these are complex enough to warrant the assistance of social workers in many instances . |
| 21 | Alone , she reached out and clung to the wooden balustrade . |
| 22 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 23 | The second section of the reader outlines some of the diverse phenomena that are often lumped together and explained by the single category of racism . |
| 24 | Here , at close quarters , the fitful , elusive silver congealed into the turgid brown flood she had seen upriver , a silent surge of water looking almost solid in its power , sweeping along leaves and branches and roots and swathes of weed in its eddies , gnawing away loose red layers of the soil along this near bank , and eating at the muddy rim of the path . |
| 25 | A man-made millpond with a splashing waterfall can be seen and heard from the rear rooms . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 28 | The traditional geometric values of the model are handled and checked by the functional relationships and used in the pictorial constructions . |
| 29 | Correct clearance between these entities can be established and checked against the desired relationships . |
| 30 | 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 . |