Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for . |
| 2 | Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel . |
| 3 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
| 4 | " Will you come and stay with me for a while ? " she asked gently . |
| 5 | We went in to the University and met up with Ian Jamieson , who invited us to come and stay with them for a few days . |
| 6 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
| 7 | Topaz found herself praying to a God to whom she did n't quite believe that Andrew would agree and stay with her for a while . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall convince the parents to let me come and stay with you in the holidays , ’ Antonia had promised . |
| 9 | When Rodie heard of what happened , she went up to Sam 's room and comforted him enough to bring him downstairs and sit with them on the terrace . |
| 10 | And then I used to get on to the dray and sit beside him on the box and then we 'd go as far as Road , which is quite a stretch and I used o walk back . |
| 11 | Rachel kneels behind me whispering in my ear , ‘ You never told me about Jancey ’ and I tell her she 's just the woman next door and Rachel says , ‘ Oh yeah ? ’ and I push her onto her back and sit astride her in the dark . |
| 12 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 13 | We welcome that and will do all we can to sustain and build on it in the future . |
| 14 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 15 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 16 | But as usual I affected a supreme unconcern , and floated past them with a sway of the hips that was a touch exaggerated . |
| 17 | And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference . |
| 18 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 19 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 20 | Children may enjoy spreading out a large selection of junk materials on the floor , and exploring and experimenting with them with the teacher 's active participation and help . |
| 21 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 22 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 23 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 24 | She kicked out at him as he covered her body with his but he held her tight and rolled with her into the protection of the trees . |
| 25 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 26 | He will be long remembered , valued and respected by me for the development of a movement which firmly established " People 's Art " as part of the expectation of education for each person and especially for children . |
| 27 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 28 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 29 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 30 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |