Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And Ben had painted the front of the house , and the barn doors and such ; and the market-room had been moved into the barn itself , and that room had been painted , and papered , and odd pieces of furniture put in .
2 The officers from Lothian and Borders , Grampian , Northern Constabulary and Cambridgeshire met to review the investigation .
3 Matzner and Tipler proceed to investigate the properties of the null hypersurfaces v = constant , working with the null Minkowski coordinates .
4 He had called for Doyle , and Doyle had turned the clock back , and come to make the arrest in person .
5 Earlier 3–2 wins over Connacht and Munster have left the locals needing a 4–1 success but Antrim 's Denise Brown , who defeated Lily McKeown in four games , was the only winner .
6 He 'd called the number in the ad. from Cardiff and Buckmaster had answered the phone .
7 A fortnight before Aubrey 's arrival , he and Cora-Beth had watched the stallion , Warrior , cover the new roan mare .
8 We argued earlier that the crime surveys commissioned by Labour Local Authorities in areas such as Islington , Merseyside , and Hammersmith and Fulham attempted to put the findings of the BCS into an inner city context .
9 Then Saunders stole twice from Mike Landell , Vaughan sank four free throws and Sunderland had nicked the points .
10 In a joint communiqué issued on April 1 from Mexico City , the Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela had announced the end of the mission for which the Contadora peace group had been created .
11 This region has just suffered a smallpox epidemic , and Serapia works to teach the women about the risks of disease , and to teach them basic health care .
12 Anne and Sarah tried to keep the peace but Miss Meers was a slave driver , and would never allow them to stand still for a moment .
13 Churchill had been enraged yet further , and Foley had received the flak .
14 When we had driven off the land , Signe and Harvey had studied the shrinkage and cracking of the ice at the water 's edge and pronounced it safe .
15 Since 1953 , when Watson and Crick had solved the structure of DNA and recognized that embedded in its famous double helix lay a mechanism both for genetic transmission of information and the directed synthesis of proteins , the detailed mechanisms of protein and nucleic acid synthesis had been unravelled and more and more aspects of its exquisitely precise cellular controls were becoming clear .
16 Cyert and March have demonstrated the significance of an ability to absorb uncertainty by being in a position to distil , filter and transmit information ( Cyert and March 1963 ) .
17 By giving the vote to some ten million electors this élite had discovered that the people 's will did not necessarily correspond with those of their masters and Louis-Napoleon had reaped the benefit as the people 's choice .
18 And Peggy 's represented the G M B at the international women 's er , food conference in Gene Geneva .
19 Ruth had nodded and smiled and Fernando had kissed the tip of her nose .
20 Suppose that the lawmakers in England and Victoria have determined the concept of ‘ honesty ’ not only differently but in such a manner that on identical facts an individual would be dishonest' and therefore liable to conviction for theft in Victoria but ‘ honest ’ and therefore fall to be acquitted in England .
21 The screeching and thrashing was behind him now as they bundled out into the corridor , and Cardiff turned to slam the door shut .
22 For the past century , the global chemical industry has shown a tendency to arrange itself as a cosy club , and ICI has fitted the pattern .
23 The hem of a distant Marsquake shivered through the walls of the burrow , and Jezrael had to stuff the back of her hand in her mouth to stifle her laughter as Ember cried out in artistic mock-orgasm .
24 Dave 's unusual over-the-neck slide technique took the audiences by storm , and Gary has extended the invite to his prestigious Albert Hall concert dates this October .
25 He and Strach have transformed the club 's image , built a team to win the youth cup , and enabled the ground to be improved .
26 Movies , Big Macs and Coca-Cola have become the language of Europe .
27 Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall .
28 Sir Thomas Gray of Heton said that the peace was not in accordance with the king 's will and that the queen and Mortimer had used the opportunity of the king 's minority to arrange the whole thing .
29 Already , Japan and Germany had accepted the obligation never to maintain nuclear forces ( the former under the MacArthur Constitution of 1947 , the latter under the 1954 Protocol to the Western European Union Treaty ) .
30 On Nov. 8 Poland and Germany agreed to de-restrict the use of territorial waters bordering the two countries and to ease restrictions on cross-border road traffic .
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