Example sentences of "and [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God .
2 They were opened with huge and ancient keys , and led one into a secret world of liquid green shadows .
3 A trigger operates the accelerator and produces anything from a gentle breeze to a 140mph gust .
4 They , they did have the option that they could have had complete absolute egalitarianism and made everybody into a poor peasant , but the commun but the commun the Communist Party were progressive and they s saw that how that you needed to have industrialization in order to increase the welfare of peasants which was their ultimate aim , and I mean it appears that how that they did n't actually care er what kinds of means they 'd have to achieve that , as in capitalism was justified in this longer term perspective .
5 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 .
6 C.J. Coventry being the other , in 1888–89 ! ) rotates an arm as perpendicular as a spire , and has anything but a stony facade .
7 It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary .
8 Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found someone of a like mind who was also keen to start .
9 ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall .
10 Take three potatoes of the same variety and place one in a cool dark place , expose one to daylight and one to fluorescent light .
11 As an ex-Catholic , ex-alcoholic , ex-hippie fifty-something from New Orleans , dressed in goth-style black and looking something like an old-fashioned schoolmistress , Anne Rice is not your typical American bestseller author .
12 First of all , presumably , you lose your normal time structure of having to go off and do something on a regular basis .
13 Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 can if you want , in the it 's not that far to go around and use one for the whole day .
17 Pop in and enjoy everything from a fine à la carte meal to a chat over a drink .
18 It appeared to be feeding normally and showed none of the obvious signs of illness .
19 Remember you can not receive a confrontation and give one at the same time .
20 ‘ 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 ! ’
21 City failed to produce one worthwhile shot and owed everything to the extraordinary reflexes of their goalkeeper .
22 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 .
23 Then the wind got up , and coated everything with an invasive layer of caustic soda .
24 But Richard 's polite attempt to straighten himself and to give something like a slight bow made the damage to his lung rather worse .
25 Everyone wants to be able to design and create something with an individual touch , whether it 's an outfit to wear or soft furnishings for the home .
26 He ran his gloved hand up across Alexei 's shoulder , and pulled something from the stiff material of the embroidered coat .
27 ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle .
28 McIntyre was able to drive her almost as fast to windward as the 50-footers and lost nothing on the downwind legs .
29 The aim of this chapter is to explore the nature of RMI , and to understand something about the key elements ( information , cultural change ) .
30 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 .
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