Example sentences of "and [be] [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been sightings , his family was powerful enough to keep him hidden and safe from the inevitable hanging ‘ should he show his face on the shores of Albion again' — a favourite phrase of Joseph 's , picked up from a knife-grinder whose preoccupation with Bligh , the Bounty and the Mutiny had almost equalled Joseph 's as witnessed in a fierce contest of informational prowess contested in the snug of the Bull in Lorton where the knife-grinder had eventually conceded defeat and been given several unexpected commissions ( including one from the vicar of Cockermouth who disliked Joseph intensely and produced a cluster of blunt knives and dullest scissors to prove it ) as compensation . |
| 2 | I later found out that the school had enquired at the house after the girl 's continued absence and been given some plausible excuse for it by the father . |
| 3 | We can change the terminology , we can give it different words , we can talk about making a commitment to Christ , we can talk about salvation , we can talk about conversion , the word , they 're not the important thing it 's this act of a new birth of receiving God in Christ for ourselves , believing that he died for us and are receiving this new life . |
| 4 | Preston have started well and are chasing that top spot … |
| 5 | People now think they can make it and are giving that little bit extra necessary … the girls as well as the boys . ’ |
| 6 | Up to 10 per cent overweight and exercise occasionally If you are a little overweight for your height and are doing some moderate exercise each week , but agree that it 's not really optimum and you could be doing a lot better , you need to follow an " improver " programme . |
| 7 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 8 | As far as danger to the local population was concerned , it said that a ‘ North East wind is blowing across the Windscale factory and is taking any radioactive dust or vapour out to sea ’ . |
| 9 | Our company is rapidly growing with the objective of being one of the top five chemical companies in the world and is using all possible means to achieve it . |
| 10 | Note that the market is still efficient and is using all current information in its forecast of the exchange rate . |
| 11 | ‘ Not for a measly fifty , ’ William laughs , as he and Andy pull together and draw together , tottering on the seat while Andy throws the emptied bottle to someone in the crowd and is handed another full magnum by his partner in The Gadget Shop , a fellow ex-ad-man who 's a few years older than Andy . |
| 12 | The British government is paying about £16 million to modernise Greenham Common and Molesworth to take cruise missiles , and is contributing some 220 security guards . |
| 13 | It was an arena perfectly adapted to pomp and circumstance and was to witness many subsequent celebrations of the successes of the English nation as it grew to become a dominant world power . |
| 14 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 15 | I played a couple of hundred sons-of-bitches on TV and was making some good money from it so I could afford to buy as much booze as I wanted . |
| 16 | Khan himself was elected a Congress party MP for Rampur in 1967 , and was returned another four times . |
| 17 | Information from secret intelligence sources indicated that Brigadier Jazali had reorganised his action squads after last autumn 's abortive attacks and was planning some new initiative . |