Example sentences of "and [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 2 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 3 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 4 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 5 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 6 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 7 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 8 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 9 | Gabriel took over John Coffin 's neglected cup and began to drink it in anxious little sips . |
| 10 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 11 | He ignored the partially melted ice , and began to shaft her with unbounded enthusiasm . |
| 12 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 13 | Then , abruptly , without a word , he turned away , picked up a piece of copy , and began to correct it with short , violent strokes and swirls of his pen . |
| 14 | The local authority was considering that request when it had to move the children and decided to place them with foster parents . |
| 15 | When Mr Prescott first backed off standing against Roy Hattersley for the deputy leadership last year , and then changed his mind and decided to contest it after all , Neil Kinnock expressed unrestrained irritation . |
| 16 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 17 | The early industrialists were proud of their achievements and liked to have them in full view . |
| 18 | And learned to associate you with that smell |
| 19 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 20 | His prick slipped smoothly back into her vagina , and continued to shaft her with glorious piston movements . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , he does n't sound like anyone I know , ’ I said , ‘ unless he 's a caddie who happened to be passing nearby and wanted to quiz me about any work available . ’ |
| 22 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |