Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver . |
| 2 | I need to grow and change and develop as a person in my own terms . |
| 3 | All the children who were living far away , they brought a sandwich and a flask with them and eating in the desk in the classroom . |
| 4 | The move , which the Germans refused to discuss , reversed the outflow of funds and led to a fall in Finnish interest rates as the market opened yesterday . |
| 5 | At the economic level , prices of strategic raw materials soared and led to a rise in cash earnings : in Africa and Asia , large numbers of people acquired a certain purchasing power and savings . |
| 6 | Veterinary examination revealed the true identity of the horse and led to a spell in Maidstone jail for Willett . |
| 7 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 8 | The first phase of the project was undertaken by two BGS staff and led to the publication in 1990 of a systematic inventory of the industrial minerals of the country . |
| 9 | The development of gastrointestinal symptoms was the commonest reason for presentation and led to the diagnosis in 25 patients . |
| 10 | The change caused agencies to re-think their attitude to TV commercials , and led to an increase in animation and product-based films using trick photography . |
| 11 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 12 | Various suggestions were made , and the final plan was that Patsy , her husband and their two little boys should come and stay in a hotel in our village for the weekend . |
| 13 | I go and sit on the bench in front of the Christmas tree and stare at it . |
| 14 | A little fat nun had once cried in the heat of Egypt 's afternoon , in the accents of County Cork , that she wished she could take off her flesh and sit by the well in her bones . |
| 15 | I used to pull the blinds , turn out the lights and sit in the dark in terror , thinking , ‘ What am I going to do here ? |
| 16 | The legislative plans that I have announced today are designed to consolidate and build on the improvement in industrial relations which we have achieved over the last 12 years . |
| 17 | ‘ She told me that you phoned her and asked for a meeting in town . ’ |
| 18 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 19 | When he least needed a vote of no confidence , Leighton was sensationally dropped from Manchester United 's 1990 Cup Final replay team and punished for a slump in form during a suspect season in front of a United defence that bordered on the arthritic . |
| 20 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 21 | The cooked test meal was cut into small pieces , mixed thoroughly , and placed in a beaker in a water bath at 37°C . |
| 22 | Just as the scathing desperation of a band 's early days helps fuel the sentiment and connect with an audience in a similar position , then a band 's later lifestyle has no connection with the audience who , quite naturally , do n't give a damn about the problems of being pop stars . |
| 23 | Mr Attwooll said Gregory was driving John Wright when Gregory said he had an errand to run and stopped at a house in Billingham . |
| 24 | In each case the pipette should be gently inserted and withdrawn from the fluid in order to minimize disturbance . |
| 25 | Rudolf , who was born in 1552 , and succeeded to the throne in 1576 , has been described as one of the most ineffectual though one of the most cultured Habsburg rulers . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems he chanced to be staying in Vienna also , and read of the disappearance in the local paper . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't care if he looks like Rudolph Valentino and goes in every bistro in the country every night of the year . |
| 28 | This left him with no option but to renew the existing parliamentary alliance between the PRN and the right-wing Democratic Social Party ( PDS ) , the Liberal Front Party ( PFL ) and the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) , and to continue without a majority in either house of the Congress , despite the difficulties this would pose for the passage of future legislation particularly on the ambitious and controversial privatization programme . |
| 29 | The sign or the symbol , however , can be ignored and treated as an end in itself . |
| 30 | She should n't insist on being called Caroline and treated like a girl in so many ways . |