Example sentences of "and [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Alison Watt , poor little sausage , had measured the Queen Mum from ear to ear , and got everything in the right place in the same picture , people would probably tell her she was a genius . |
| 2 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 3 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 4 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |
| 5 | This is neither brash , spotty punk nor controlled smoothly executed musicianship but a careful balance which utilises the expertise of the latter and loses none of the instantaneous excitement of the former . |
| 6 | can if you want , in the it 's not that far to go around and use one for the whole day . |
| 7 | It appeared to be feeding normally and showed none of the obvious signs of illness . |
| 8 | Remember you can not receive a confrontation and give one at the same time . |
| 9 | ‘ And yet to have been there and heard none of the holy words which we should naturally have listened for from those lips at such a time — how distressing ! ’ |
| 10 | City failed to produce one worthwhile shot and owed everything to the extraordinary reflexes of their goalkeeper . |
| 11 | The parents had to be able to present a full defence , he said , and if the whole case had been heard in Inverness , it would have been almost impossible to fully safeguard their interests and get everybody in the right place at the right time . |
| 12 | He ran his gloved hand up across Alexei 's shoulder , and pulled something from the stiff material of the embroidered coat . |
| 13 | McIntyre was able to drive her almost as fast to windward as the 50-footers and lost nothing on the downwind legs . |
| 14 | The aim of this chapter is to explore the nature of RMI , and to understand something about the key elements ( information , cultural change ) . |
| 15 | This concept of individual timetables enables us to get away from the focus on the family or household as an undifferentiated unit , and to understand something of the complex patterns which evolve when individuals ' lives are woven together over the period of their lifetimes . |
| 16 | After all , I was more of an outsider there than at home , being out of my milieu and having none of the social graces or advantages of my fellow-pupils . |
| 17 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 18 | They all agreed it was better to make steps on the eroded paths scarring Beinn Eighe and keep everyone on the one track . |
| 19 | Each of the Moi carried a long-bladed machete which had been dubbed a coupe-code in Annam , and taking one from the nearest tribesman , the Senator bent over the dead buffalo . |
| 20 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 21 | Mr Litmus was quite certain he had n't and knew none of the other teachers had either . |
| 22 | For a moment unguarded amusement tugged at the stern line of that mouth , and lit something in the haunting depth of those eyes . |
| 23 | albacete have lost one and won one since the last time i mailed . |
| 24 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 25 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 26 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 27 | Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays . |
| 28 | Charles was about the same age as Richie and had something of the same military bearing . |
| 29 | Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay-pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago ! |
| 30 | Napoleon marched through it on his way to Moscow , but today the road is used by those who wish to avoid the pressures of autobahn driving and see something of the pleasant , rolling countryside of Westphalia . |