Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tearing down the temple and re-building it in three days . |
| 2 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 3 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 4 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 5 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 6 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 7 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 8 | He had originally intended to polish up the wood and sell it for five shillings , but when he was fortunate enough to obtain the gramophone he realised he should repair the machine and install it in the cabinet . |
| 9 | Next , enter nine other matches in a second column on the coupon and bracket them into three trios with a thick , dividing line underneath each set of three selections . |
| 10 | The CAA believes it may well have been a 99p UFO Solar , and warns buyers to take note of Article 75 of the ANO which restricts captive balloon and kite-flying to a height of sixty metres agl and forbids it within five kilometres of an aerodrome . |
| 11 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 12 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |
| 13 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 14 | Hermite responded with a profuse apology for the oversight , and suggested that Smith could help the Academy out of an embarrassing position by rewriting his earlier papers in French , complete with full proofs , and submitting them by I June in accordance with the competition rules . |
| 15 | If you are prepared to live dangerously , you can take many of the techniques above and combine them in one image , or , you may even discover completely new applications for this superb medium . |
| 16 | now you can stick a whole one in your mouth and eat it in one go , ca n't you Martin ? , yes Martin it is it that you did |
| 17 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 18 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 19 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 20 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 21 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 22 | Two men appeared in front of him , and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side , raising his sword . |
| 23 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 24 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 25 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |
| 26 | Then split the cards face down into three different piles and take a card from the middle pile and place it on one side of the outside piles . |
| 27 | Level the top of the cake and cut it into three rectangles widthways , two 10x20cm ( 4x8inches ) and the other 5x20cm ( 2x8inches ) . |
| 28 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 29 | and put them on one side . |
| 30 | Barlow confessed : ‘ Mo called for the ball and put me in two minds . |