Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is a poor house Ellen and not clean but it is cheap and furnished after a fashion and best of all lies next to the Casa Guidi which raised my spirits . |
| 2 | He drummed on the window with the flat of white , spectral hands — eyes turned to his left , in the direction of the glass doors , and filled with a fear and horror that paralysed Cardiff . |
| 3 | a fiery fellow ( the salamander was popularly supposed to be able to live in fire ) ; also , a circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it ( OED ) . |
| 4 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 5 | He turned the car into a narrow street and stopped in a yard that could have been the twin of the one at the other hotel . |
| 6 | Lissa 's mouth shaped her distaste , and she put her cup down and realised with a start that Adam was saying something . |
| 7 | On her way back to the surgery , Sophie glanced at her watch and realised with a start that she had left Joanna on her own for nearly two hours . |
| 8 | Their friendship blossomed when they met again at the funeral and developed into a love that was to stretch across forty years of marriage . |
| 9 | And he would have to pose for hours , holding a sword and perched on a trestle or wooden horse while some artist-wallah depicted " The Relief of Krishnapur " ! |
| 10 | He had looked at his wife 's unguarded face and forgotten for a moment that life was a deadly game in which you had to keep your cards close to your chest and your back to the wall , your eyes open and your nose clean in order not to end up in the gutter with your hat in your hand . |
| 11 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , they 've just got plastic bows and arrows , ’ said Tess , ‘ but we reckon that if a burglar 's been squirted with ammonia and slashed with a sword and pelted with ball-bearings and wooden balls his resistance is going to be pretty low by the time he reaches the kids ’ bedroom , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 13 | In all , 1738 ( 96% ) patients in the survey were seen initially by their general practitioner ; 41 ( 2% ) referred themselves and were admitted to hospital , and 26 ( 1% ) referred themselves and were managed and discharged by an accident and emergency department . |
| 14 | Of those initially seen by the general practitioner , 184 ( 11% ) were referred and admitted to hospital , 8 ( <1% ) were referred and discharged by an accident and emergency department , and 1546 ( 89% ) were managed solely by the general practitioner ( table II ) . |
| 15 | Within the pale the strangers entering were observed immediately , and approached with an alertness and efficiency that probably stemmed from the fact that the earl himself was in residence . |
| 16 | A box structure with steel mesh on three sides , it is lowered and lifted by a winch and ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 17 | In the adventure of everyday life , on the other hand , the characters are affected by the events ( however fantastic ) that befall them , and the progression of changes fixes the order of events , giving a materiality to space as the scene of transformation and metamorphosis : ‘ Space becomes concrete and saturated with a time that is more substantial . ’ |
| 18 | In time it will be both understood and accepted as a disease that is not the fault of the sufferer and from which full recovery is possible . |
| 19 | But she ended up being forced into the bath , having a noose placed around her neck , being blindfolded , gagged , and threatened with a knife and a chisel . |
| 20 | He was taken into the centre 's new laundry and presented with a bowl and washing powder ! |
| 21 | The Preface fetches information from other ages and brings it forward , and hands it to us , cleansed and ready for consumption , and presented in a style that makes it clear Johnson wished to be read . |
| 22 | He was knocked down and injured by a horse when the rider lost control while riding too fast . |
| 23 | This first requires the code to be downloaded from the computer out to a dedicated programming unit and transferred into an EPROM or EEPROM , which is then removed and placed into the module under test . |
| 24 | A rehabilitated person is one who has been convicted of and sentenced for an offence or offences and who has not committed a further offence or offences during the appropriate rehabilitation period and that period has expired . |
| 25 | And she had bloomed and flowered beneath a touch that she sensed deep in her innermost self was not simply skill and experience , but a kind of homage to womanhood . |
| 26 | I rather like the Nimbus set , despite the generous acoustics and the occasional technical frailty , as not only has one the inestimable benefit of hearing the music shaped , balanced , and paced in a way that at least approximates the sort of thing Schubert originally had in mind , but they all sound as though they 're having such a jolly good time ( one palls at the though of all those ghastly , poe-faced Schubert records which litter the catalogue ) . |
| 27 | Then he and Rabscuttle went secretly down one of their few holes where there was no water , put a sentry outside and thought and talked for a day and a night . |
| 28 | Despite this claim to fame the church has been subjected to several indignities , having been deconsecrated and used as a barracks and a chemical store before being reopened for worship in 1899 . |
| 29 | a letter or figure printed on the first page of each section of a book and used as a guide when collating and binding . |
| 30 | They may therefore be found within many other text types contained with the LOB , and used in a manner that tends to be consistent across each domain . |