Example sentences of "and [subord] [noun prp] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public support for the General Strike was most evident in Cambridge where students and members of the University were openly supportive and where Pateman arranged a WEA class in public speaking . |
| 2 | They were lovely clothes , beautifully made from fine materials , and if Ellie took a tuck with her hand at the back of the dresses , and turned the hems up a good six or nine inches , looking in the dressing mirror she could get more than a fair impression of how she might look once she too was a young woman . |
| 3 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 4 | And if Aherne has a criticism it is on the standards of school and club coaching . |
| 5 | Maggie scrounged what food she could , and when Sarah dipped a crust of bread in the cabbage soup she 'd made she could see the cracks in the bottom of the dish through the thin liquid . |
| 6 | And when Reggie sent a picture , hand-painted by Joyce , I felt best of all . |
| 7 | Although , it did n't happen the ‘ seed had been planted ’ and when Anne-Marie became a student at S. Martin 's College , ‘ the seed , began to grow ! ’ . |
| 8 | No doubt because of his strictures on Hardy in After Strange Gods , and because he found Hardy 's view of life personally antipathetic — and when Eliot disliked a writer , as he disliked Aldous Huxley ( i.e. the work , not the man ) , and as he disliked Addison , and above all Goethe , his antipathy was intense and difficult to budge — he reacted in rather a lukewarm manner . |
| 9 | At that moment the coffee arrived , and as Luce opened a pack of sugar and stirred it in he remarked , ‘ I see you 're engaged , Miss Weston . ’ |
| 10 | And though Paine designed a London house for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh , there is nothing else to connect him with Uppark , which he mentions nowhere in his thoroughly documented account of his own works . |