Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kept apologising to Nellie and swearing undying devotion to her . |
| 2 | Andrew Kennedy , the Essex Under-17 hockey captain , hit powerfully ( 61 in 64 balls ) , in a drawn match against Berkhamsted and showed some promise as a seamer . |
| 3 | You may want this , and choose coral gravel or crushed shell — but you may be keeping Neon Tetras or Discus and need hardness-free gravel . |
| 4 | The line operates every Tuesday and gets dozens of calls , because , despite the fact that there have been fewer home repossessions over the last few months , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux say that more people are getting themselves into debt . |
| 5 | Boycott has called a meeting of his own Wakefield members for next Tuesday and seems set on leading a campaign to unseat the majority of the committee , something he managed once before , in January 1984 . |
| 6 | Phil Whelan has returned from winning his second England under-21 cap in Turkey on Tuesday and looks likely to deputise once again at left-back . |
| 7 | Phil Whelan has returned from winning his second England under-21 cap in Turkey on Tuesday and looks likely to deputise once again at left-back . |
| 8 | As the Government are allegedly concerned about the appalling human rights record , why do they sell frigates , aircraft , missiles and armoured cars to Indonesia and provide military training for Indonesian troops ? |
| 9 | The sculpture , created by Irena Adams and featuring giant bat shapes , was built to demonstrate bricks specially designed to accommodate the furry flying mammals in buildings . |
| 10 | But such work often involves using older and younger women as tests of psychological theories which were developed mainly from male samples , like theories of moral development ( Gilligan 1982 ) , adolescence ( Beckett 1986 ) , transfer into the job market ( Griffin 1986 ) , and middle age ( Barnett and Baruch 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Former Stockton scrum half Barry Corbett and fly half Glynn Armstrong replace the injured duo . |
| 12 | ( Dennis and Clout 1980 , p. 153 ) , even if there remains a strong private rental sector in rural areas and many owner-occupiers are already ‘ well-to-do ’ . |
| 13 | It overlooks the tiny village of Montelovesco and offers some really lovely views of the hills of Umbria . |
| 14 | You came here to watch the Lady Eleanor and make sure she did nothing foolish , such as escape or cause scandal at the English court . |
| 15 | You can look across the Rio Grande river in Texas and see American-owned factories , deregulated and non-unionised , on the Mexican side . |
| 16 | He was able to address the Eleventh Party Congress in August that year and emphasised the need for ‘ less empty talk and more hard work ’ ( quoted in Benewick and Wingrove 1988 : 14 ) . |
| 17 | According to Blecher , ‘ Per capita grain production grew at an average annual rate of 3.7 per cent from 1978 to 1984 , compared to 1.2 per cent during the previous thirteen years ’ ( Benewick and Wingrove 1988 : 100 ) . |
| 18 | Between 1981 and 1985 , gross industrial output grew by 12 per cent a year ( Benewick and Wingrove 1988 : 118 ) . |
| 19 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 20 | The British bombardment on the Somme began on 24 June ( the infantry attack went in on 1 July ) and on that same day Falkenhayn stopped the massive flow of ammunition to Verdun and cancelled all reinforcements . |
| 21 | Maud Heath was a pedlar woman who lived on Wick Hill and walked four and a half miles , past Kellaways , to Chippenham each morning . |
| 22 | I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously . |
| 23 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 24 | We know what happened : Enya was very quickly to attract the attention of David Puttman and had two successful soundtrack recordings for the BBC , ‘ The Frog Prince ’ and ‘ The Celts ’ . |
| 25 | However , the island remains very much a part of Portugal and receives annual funds from the central government . |
| 26 | Channel 4's Have I Got News For You team , headed by Angus Deayton and starring Private Eye editor Ian Hislop and comedian Paul Merton , mercilessly ridiculed anyone . |
| 27 | Bogged down in Mexico and denied any support from Britain , Napoleon III had been unable to exercise any influence during the war which Prussia had forced on Denmark in 1864 and Bismarck was determined that there should also be no interference in the war which he now planned with Austria . |
| 28 | The area I visited , Geurrero State , is in the south-west coastal area of Mexico and includes that idyll of jet-setters — Acapulco . |
| 29 | As part of the evolving role of the regions of Europe , we will establish a Scottish representative office in Brussels and seek appropriate representation for the Scottish Parliament in European institutions . |
| 30 | She was a whore fetched from Brussels and paid ten English guineas a day to bed the Prince , and in her opinion she earned every ounce of the precious gold . |