Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the scheme outlined by Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils in Towards a General Theory of Action ( 1951 ) . |
| 2 | He stood by the cab with the door held open , and Lucy climbed out in a daze . |
| 3 | But Dzagnidze then followed his own kick for a try in the corner , and Mironov swept through for a try that Dzagnidze converted . |
| 4 | But he missed a tricky black and Parrott stepped in with a 48 clearance to pink to lead 3–0 . |
| 5 | An opportunity for escape occurred shortly afterwards when she and Wordsworth set off on a walking tour into the Wye Valley . |
| 6 | There was no room with Jimmy and Sean , and Marcus and Pete moved on to a different table . |
| 7 | How do the Garys and Larrys come up with a thousand quid ? |
| 8 | Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery . |
| 9 | Webb took the ball in his stride , cut inside , and Sharpe finished off with a low angled shot which gave Pears no chance . |
| 10 | And Derbyshire got off to a beautiful start . |
| 11 | The angle eased , and Mick smeared up to a high peg from which the guide suggested a rope move . |
| 12 | ‘ Shall we go to the party ? ’ she wheedled , and Alain sat back with a smile . |
| 13 | There was a faint rattle and a metallic clink from high above and Grant sank back into a crouch , waiting with baited breath to see if the slight noise had alerted anyone . |
| 14 | They were about to go through to the back-kitchen when the door behind the bar opened , and Connor came out with a large , pink-faced gentleman . |
| 15 | Alston , Thesiger and Martin holed up in a wadi near the old rendezvous . |
| 16 | And Daniel came in on a hospital trolley disguised as a sleigh with scarlet blankets and silver-paper runners , drawn by hospital porters dressed as polar bears . |
| 17 | The canteen at TV London was largely deserted at half past ten the next morning when Dexter and Blanche sat down at a table in the corner of the self-service section . |
| 18 | Tom unhitched it and Willie darted through into a small lane . |
| 19 | He actually dreamed of himself in a suit of armour opening the big , oak front door with a mace in his hand and Adam riding up on a black , colourfully caparisoned horse . |
| 20 | Marc murmured something and turned over , and Sarella sat up with a gasp of embarrassment . |
| 21 | Fleischmann and Pons set out on a different course initially , but one that had already been charted in Europe in the 1920s and 30s . |
| 22 | The Yak banked again , came in fast , cannon shell punching into the Stork and Farber cried out as a bullet caught him in the shoulder . |
| 23 | The end of power-sharing had left a vacuum , which the constitutional convention had failed to fill , and Ulster staggered on with a vicious IRA campaign , tit-for-tat assassinations , unconvincing direct rule , and no obvious sense of direction . |
| 24 | And Shelley come back with a knife . |
| 25 | Her mother was William Godwin 's second wife , and Clairmont grew up in a free-thinking household with her brother , illegitimate like herself , with Mary Wollstonecraft 's daughter by Godwin — another Mary of Clairmont 's age — and with Fanny , Wollstonecraft 's older illegitimate daughter . |
| 26 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 27 | Edwin and Daisy marched off with a map and the numbers of suitable trams to find the Via Botteghe Oscure ; Sister Dew , Ianthe , and a rather unwilling Penelope went to buy postcards ; Mark and Sophia , the cares of the parish temporarily forgotten , strolled up to the Trinità dei Monti and down the Spanish Steps . |
| 28 | He and Sybil took off for a few weeks ' holiday before going back to London . |
| 29 | Yes and Billy comes in on a Tuesday . |
| 30 | MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland got off to a great start in the Woolworths Young Athletes League , winning their Northern Premier match at the Don Valley Stadium , Sheffield . |