Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spoke — more slowly than she had spoken before — and Fatima listened with a concentrated intensity that she never lent to Marie Claire 's requests and detailed instructions . |
| 2 | The offshore aggregate resource assessments funded by the Department of the Environment , The Crown Estate and NERC continued with a geophysical survey off the Humber Estuary which will be followed by a sampling programme in 1991 . |
| 3 | The comments by Field and Verney concluded with a strong recommendation that every resource of television production should be lavished on programmes for children ‘ if they are to watch intelligently and develop into ready viewers for that ‘ better ’ Television being demanded by the critics ' and sought after by the industry itself . |
| 4 | At Sara 's and David 's entrance , the girl stepped back convulsively from the man , and Sara saw with a dull feeling of inevitability that it was Matthew and Sandra . |
| 5 | Letty bobbed a curtsy and Emily smiled with a sudden feeling of gratitude towards the maid . |
| 6 | He had never cried when he was struck , and Boyd felt with a desolate pang that probably the boy was wiser and braver than he was . |
| 7 | The wedding is seen on TV across the world and Britain celebrates with a national holiday . |
| 8 | Claus and Sonny agree with a sardonic account of gilded marriage from which passion and companionship have long departed , but the dramatic momentum accrues from the entry of Harvard law professor Dershowitz ( Ron Silver ) accepting a brief to appeal on the suspicion that , guilty or innocent , his client was convicted by prejudiced jurors on flimsy and suspect evidence . |
| 9 | They spread the maps on the floor of the larger of the two bed-chambers and Caspar pointed with a podgy finger to the Fire Country where Reflection had set up her Court . |