Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 2 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 3 | These data buttons have been chosen and laid out with great logic , giving the player instant and sensible choices for altering patches , or the parameters which go to make up those patches . |
| 4 | Eighty-five per cent in special assistance to the Länder Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as to Land Berlin to cover their general financial requirements and divided up among these Länder in proportion to their number of inhabitants , excluding the inhabitants of Berlin ( West ) , and |
| 5 | Three months later she joined C&R on a full-time basis , although throughout her maternity leave she had been attending meetings and helping out on special project work . |
| 6 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 7 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 8 | ‘ Let the Council clear it up , ’ he said , and doubled up in silent mirth at the thought of flouting authority . |
| 9 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 10 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 11 | He then generally obliged the heirs and entrusted to them that they should give and make over to each person whatever he had left them . |
| 12 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 13 | Barnard considered that the energy introduced into the homoeopathic potency during the succussion process stabilized the arrangement of the water polymers and that it was these shape-specific polymers which were built up and passed on from one potency to the next . |
| 14 | Bayfield was the senior ‘ pro ’ of the pack , and lived up to that responsibility nobly . |
| 15 | Everyone worked with a will to equip the expedition and load up with enough food , petrol , water and ammunition for three to four weeks in the field . |
| 16 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 17 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 18 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 19 | Of those that did turn up at their parish churches , a good number behaved in a manner that was anything but reverential : talking , joking , spitting , arguing , and catching up on lost sleep . |
| 20 | The ‘ traditional ’ settlement pattern in the area is varied and developed out of topographical constraint , patterns of land tenure and the exigencies of agriculture . |
| 21 | John stood 6ft tall and weighed in at 13½ stone , so he was ideally equipped for his onerous responsibilities although , like many big men , he was a quiet and serious fellow — a Sunday School teacher who frequently declined to play on Good Fridays or Christmas Day . |
| 22 | Colourists at the Michaeljohn salon apply the renowned Henara Natural Colouring Powders to craftily enhance the natural pigmentation of the hair and replace its sheen , and Henara has now added a Hot Oil Conditioner to this hair-care collection , which is especially useful for injecting life and gloss back into devitalised hair after the stresses of summer . |
| 23 | This means that the player and the monitor can be kept together and moved around as one unit . |
| 24 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 25 | After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation . |
| 26 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 27 | With an effort , he heaved up first one foot and then the other and moved back onto firmer ground . |
| 28 | We stopped the boat and drifted for a while , and the birds relaxed and moved back towards Bound Skerry the rock in a long line — which did the trick ! |
| 29 | Now it is fallen upon and twisted and embellished out of all recognition . |
| 30 | Nevertheless he was able to show that , despite all this , the Company had , by a great act of faith , begun and carried through to partial completion a programme of overall improvement rather than just piecemeal adjustments . |