Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather a perspective that recognizes and takes full account of the reality of such crime within the world and which stands at a distance from it . |
| 2 | By a painter who befriends him , and who sleeps for a while with his mother , Jaromil , already self-perceived as exceptional , original , is introduced to modern art , which ‘ had not yet become the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses and retained the fascinating aura of a sect , a magical exclusivity fascinating to childhood — an age always daydreaming about the romanticism of secret societies , fraternities and tribes ’ . |
| 3 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 4 | In this way three different groups were used , each linking with the other — the teacher who is both an opinion former and a consumer , the child who learns about the manufacturer and may become a potential future customer and who acts as a messenger to the mother who is the manufacturer 's prime commercial and marketing target . |
| 5 | The TRNC , whose citizens make up about one-fifth of the population of the island , has an executive President who is elected by universal adult suffrage every five years and who presides over a Cabinet . |
| 6 | The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has an executive President who is elected by universal suffrage every five years and who presides over a Cabinet . |
| 7 | ‘ Lola is very powerful and very sensitive and she goes through a lot of changes . |
| 8 | all I could is , I 'll get Tracy summat to wear and you got time , and she picks like a blouse , she 'd pay a hundred pound for one . |
| 9 | We stand holding each other , and she shivers like a butterfly and her tears trickle down my skin . |
| 10 | Three o'clock in the morning , bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine , and she looks like a child at playschool . |
| 11 | Mum said of him : ‘ He 's gone meshugge ( daft ) … the shiksa comes from nowhere , we know nothing about her , or her family , and she looks like a shmatte ( rag ) . ’ |
| 12 | We learn with them that he designs furniture ( as Harry Hoffman did ) and she works in a gallery of primitive art on Madison Avenue , but only in the end do they reveal their names to each other . |
| 13 | Mr Welch wants GE to be an enterprise where : ( a ) internal divisions blur , and everybody works as a team ; ( b ) suppliers and customers are partners ; ( c ) there is no segregation between foreign and domestic operations , and each GE business is just as much at home in South Korea and Paris , France , as it is in South Carolina and Paris , Texas . |
| 14 | ‘ He is thinner than Hess , he is stupider than Hess , and he thinks like a peasant . |
| 15 | And he talks like a translation . ’ |
| 16 | His change of bank with the same g sends his nose up and he climbs into a barrel roll . |
| 17 | So he 's walking down the street , trying ah , trying ah to get his mind off this and he gets on a train . |
| 18 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 19 | I confess to him that I have never done Kipling Groove and he launches into a celebration of Arthur Dolphin 's famous classic . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , Joan catches Victor slightly off-balance and he falls against a wall , bruising his arm slightly . |
| 21 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 22 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 23 | The last seven lines on three rhymes break the pattern of units of sense on single rhymes as the meditator signals by means of the present tense : " lufe chawnges my chere " , the possibility of transformation to a state where he can hear the melody to which love dances , and he ends with a statement of faith , " be my lufyng , I lufe may syng " . |
| 24 | I just thought poor guy , I mean he was somebody who thought he 'd overcome food addiction , drink addiction , drugs addiction and he looks like a spider . |
| 25 | He is my wife 's brother and he works as a journalist with a newspaper in Hue . |
| 26 | ‘ Because he is rich and he lives on a desert island like this when he could be in Paris … ’ |
| 27 | My old man 's a dustman he wears a dustman 's hat he wars cor blimey trousers and he lives in a council flat . |
| 28 | And he lives in a house on Suez Street , |
| 29 | The friend is called Bobby and he lives in a slum near the city centre . |
| 30 | and he lives in a chateaux in France . |