Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 2 | Three things I 've always wanted to do : go to Machu Picchu , put my foot in Lake Titicaca and make it with an oriental chick . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the deafening thunder of the falls , and the awe-inspiring sight of their dramatic descent , the effect can be sheer magic on a fine day ; as the sunlight catches the spray in flight , and transforms it into an elusive pattern of shapes and colours that suggest in painting the Impressionism of Manet or the mists of Corot , or in music , the evocative nuances of Debussy . |
| 4 | It has been stated that the principle of primogenital succession was increasingly observed in the eleventh century ; but there was a substantial difference between accepting the customary right of the eldest son to succeed , if he were of age and competent , and accepting it as an inviolable rule , as was proved by the usurpation of Robert the Frisian , and perhaps also by the succession of Raymond IV of Toulouse ( though here the facts are rather uncertain ) . |
| 5 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 6 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 7 | She remembered Doc Threadneedle suggesting she try sucking her finger and sticking it in an electric socket . |
| 8 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 9 | She had to seduce Jim by whipping off a false beard disguise and transforming herself into an exotic belly-dancer . |
| 10 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 11 | Stage 4 : Care planning — Negotiating the most appropriate ways of achieving the objectives identified by the assessment of need and incorporating them into an individual care plan . |
| 12 | This house was run down until the owner completely renovated it and redecorated inside and out , and transformed it into an impressive home |
| 13 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 14 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 15 | The alternative , of close integration of the railways into the central machinery of the state , has not proved suitable for the efficient conduct of complex productive activities ; a Spanish experiment with direct ministerial control during the late 1950s ( RENFE 1957m : vii , ix ; IBRD 1963 : 192–3 ) was shortlived , and the disadvantages of direct control have recently led the Italian government , for example , to remove the state railway from under the direct control of the transport ministry and endow it with an autonomous corporate structure ( Railway Gazette International , December 1985 : 926–7 ) . |
| 16 | though this a bit rich and observed that it was the study 's authors who proposed , in effect , to remove directors ' responsibilities for judgmental matters and vest them in an omniscient panel of assessors . |
| 17 | Use a sharp scraper to lift off deposits and ladle them into an empty bucket for disposal . |
| 18 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 19 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 20 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 21 | Bill cuts through the line after grabbing at thin air and landing it in an arbitrary process . |
| 22 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 23 | Therefore , three and a half years after the accident , Dawn accepted the amount offered , which was sufficient to pay back the £70,000 her father had spent on her treatment and a specially adapted car , and to provide her with an ongoing income to cover her living expenses . |
| 24 | The publication by an LEA of a scheme such as Solihull 's is implicitly intended to signal this newly emphasized responsibility to teachers , to persuade them to accept it and to provide them with an agreed agenda for the review . |
| 25 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 26 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 27 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 28 | As an ex-Catholic , ex-alcoholic , ex-hippie fifty-something from New Orleans , dressed in goth-style black and looking something like an old-fashioned schoolmistress , Anne Rice is not your typical American bestseller author . |
| 29 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 30 | Ingarden is keen to emphasize that the delight evoked by such positive culminations is not the essential component of aesthetic experience but a by-product of the activity of discovery , of experiencing an achieved harmony and valuing it in an emotional , contemplative way . |