Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John McGahern , on the other hand , writes , speaks and thinks in a style that is so sparse it defies anyone to deny the truth at its core . |
| 2 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 3 | He looks at me hard and says in a voice that can only be described as arch , ‘ Do you mean do I cry when I see children with flies round their eyes ? |
| 4 | She sings and acts like an angel and is extremely pleased because Wolfgang has served her extraordinarily well . ’ |
| 5 | She sits in that bloody chair and drools like a baby and makes as much sense . |
| 6 | ( Wendy is brought up from the hold and sees at a glance that the deck has n't been scrubbed for years . ) |
| 7 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 8 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 9 | In brick , it is superb and rises above a cloister that is all that remains of the monastery . |
| 10 | Against that are moments when he strays too far from the printed note in striving for that extra frisson of feeling and resorts to a delivery that stays only just the right side of being coarse . |
| 11 | Though he is neither intellectually sharp nor verbally articulate , Mr Prescott is intelligent in a self-schooled way , and speaks in a language that many Labour voters understand . |
| 12 | The choreographer must learn the natural functioning of the dancers ' bodies in order to combine steps and poses in a way that gives quality to the whole . |
| 13 | It is a three-dimensional , fibrous structure , built up of protein blocks which the tanning process makes resistant to putrefaction and softens to a degree that suits the end use . |
| 14 | The didactic exercise culminates in front of a J.E.H. MacDonald landscape , a painting visible if , and only if , the visitor sits in a booth ( maximum capacity of two ) and listens to a voice that tries , according to a museum official , ‘ to stimulate the visitor 's imaginative powers ’ . |
| 15 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |
| 16 | He gets out of bed and scrabbles into a sweatshirt and trousers . |
| 17 | The truly hyperactive child sleeps very little ( possibly only four to five hours a night ) , has an attention span obviously shorter than other children and behaves in a way that is chaotic rather than simply energetic . |