Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 2 | It is not surprising , therefore , that recent Marxist explanations of power in capitalist society have tried to explain the more pluralistic modern forms of representation and policy-making in terms , not of some devious desire by the ruling class and their friends but as a limited freedom for actors and forces opposed to capitalism , which is constrained and limited in the last instance by the economic structure of the capitalist mode of production and its ideological hegemony . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) In May 1983 B.M.T. to which the application signed by the first plaintiff and altered by the third defendant had been submitted , offered C.M.C. a loan of £185,500 on the security of the bakery . |
| 4 | S. Nicodemus is the oldest of this group of churches but was excessively restored and altered in the nineteenth century when the campanile was built . |
| 5 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 6 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 7 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 8 | But , all those years ago , she simply had n't been experienced enough to realise that , despite those wonderful and ecstatic nights of passion , her marriage to Ross had been founded on a disastrously thin layer of quicksand ; a relationship which would crack and disintegrate under the first onslaught of any stress and tension . |
| 9 | Maitland to be asked to circulate a copy of the draft Minute of Agreement to Christian Aid and SCIAF before the next meeting so that this can be looked at . |
| 10 | Just past the Ha'penny Bridge , the driver turned to the left into Lower Fownes 's Street and stopped before the first building on the right hand side . |
| 11 | The meeting recommends the Committee respecting the Lint Miller " to meet with the Lint Miller , and to show him such Evidence as they can recover respecting the weight of fflax in other Countrys — and Endevour to get him to agree to dress & deliver fflax for the same payment and by the same weight , and to report to the next meeting . " |
| 12 | Terrorism and the Liberal State was published in 1977 , and revised for a second edition in 1986 . |
| 13 | We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester . |
| 14 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 15 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 16 | But City are prone to concede goals in the last quarter of an hour and bang on the 75th minute the impressive young Dodd fed a wonderful 30-yard pass to Rod Wallace , who held off two defenders to equalise . |
| 17 | It has a symbolic broom and drives behind the last man on the road , ready to sweep up those who abandon the race . |
| 18 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 19 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 20 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 21 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 22 | One postcard from Shanghai to Scotland , illustrating the railway station and posted before the First World War , bears the message ‘ is not the station like that at Fort Matilda ? ’ |
| 23 | We deserved our lead and to lose in the last minute was terrible . ’ |
| 24 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
| 25 | They were fledged and flown by the second week in February , is this a record ? |
| 26 | They chatted quietly about old times — and daring for the first time to talk about the future . |
| 27 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 28 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 29 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 30 | Finally he spent an hour from 1630 to 1730 in his office finishing off his paperwork and checking on the next day 's programme . |