Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once there , we lifted ourselves and looked at one another , both of us laughing , trudging grass-stained to the top again . |
| 2 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 3 | Even so , she had no means of recognising them and to wade through three hundred-odd pages in search of some unidentified reference would be a formidable task and probably not worth the effort . |
| 4 | The keel is similarly doubled back on itself and hemmed on two edges , leaving an opening along what will be its upper edge . |
| 5 | However a lap later McCall had passed him and led by 20 seconds and he stretched his lead all the way to the finish . |
| 6 | He was at this time an exponent of the benefits of Anglo-French peace and in the Philobiblon , attributed to him and written in 1344–5 , one chapter was entitled ‘ the Complaint of Books against Wars ’ . |
| 7 | My vertical stabiliser hit the side of his fuselage , knocking a hole in him and bending about three-quarters of my tail over ’ . |
| 8 | At the Easter vestry in 1818 Merceron was voted out , and shortly afterwards he was convicted of the charges against him and imprisoned for eighteen months . |
| 9 | All Angus did was pull his robe tighter around him and slump in one of the high-backed chairs to glower at us . |
| 10 | She heard him call after her and got into one of the swing boats with a pale , freckled little boy who was hanging nervously on to the rope while his plain , doting parents stood beside the boat , saying encouragingly , ‘ Go on , Sidney , it 'll be such fun . ’ |
| 11 | He poured it for her and watched with one eyebrow raised as she gulped at it . |
| 12 | She dived towards it , anxious some other would-be caller should not beat her to it and begin on one of those endless conversations the French seemed to have , searching through her pockets for change and trying to recall the International dialling code and the number of the line which connected direct with Nick 's office , bypassing the busy switchboard , all at the same time . |
| 13 | One nice touch lets you italicize and embolden text simply by highlighting it and clicking on one of the toolbox icons . |
| 14 | How do you , friends , change a structure which is still the old structure with a civil service , a security and everything that goes with it and move to one of democracy and justice because if you move too rapidly and you do not make concessions and you ignore the terrible power of the right wing with all the military might at its disposal you can very easily create in South Africa a Lebanon or indeed , yes , a Yugoslavia . |
| 15 | I dug into the War Bag , drew out the air-pistol , cocked it and fired in one movement . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the book which he based upon it and published in 1893 under the title De la Division du travail social : étude sur l'organisation des sociétes supérieures is without question one of the most influential and stimulating in the whole field of the social sciences . |
| 17 | Perhaps this happens to us ail as we age : our past lives detach themselves and stand to one side hesitantly , hardly believing the corporeal links to a former self . |
| 18 | ‘ Orders can be either phoned or faxed in to us and delivered within 24 hours , ’ Trevor Thompson emphasised . |