Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother wanted to live a posh life and have dinner parties with other rich Jews and cook gefilte fish and wear a wig and dance with fashionable rabbis at weddings , you can imagine how Dad took to that . |
| 2 | When a nerve impulse gets there this chemical is released by the nerve terminal , crosses the narrow cleft and reacts with special receptors on the muscle side of the junction , which , when they 're stimulated by this chemical , lead to muscle contraction . |
| 3 | Instead of meandering up a path to the top , chatting amicably to a pal about how George Michael used to be good in Wham and passing round the butterscotch , they choose a cliff and try to reach the summit by slowly inching their way up vertical rock , pushing their fingers into tiny fissures and standing with one toe on a ledge the size of a pebble . |
| 4 | Just thinking about his car made Henry want to hire an electric hammer and run with all convenient speed to Wimbledon , to fall upon its bodywork with screams of rage . |
| 5 | The value placed on these men is most clearly stated in the Treaty of Andelot , where Guntram and Childebert II settled the question of the succession and dealt with various matters which had arisen during the early years of the latter 's reign . |
| 6 | All the broken down buildings have gone , existing businesses have been hidden from 125mph prying eyes and replaced with pleasant trees and shrubs . |
| 7 | He closed his eyes and tried with all the concentration of which he was capable to see with his mind exactly what it was that he had wanted to paint . |
| 8 | Another release , for husband and wife together , was going to watch Chelsea Football Club and socializing with some of the team . |
| 9 | It was draped with ruby velvet and furnished with gilded chairs . |
| 10 | From Neolithic Stanydale through the Iron Age with the brochs of Clickhimin and Mousa , and Ness of Burgi fort , to the Viking village at Jarlshof , into the Medieval period through Scalloway and Muness castles and closing with 18th-century Fort Charlotte , these monuments act as signposts through Shetland 's long and colourful past . |
| 11 | Also details on the history of the aircraft and contact with former aircrew or groundcrew appreciated . |
| 12 | Imagine having rope or flex wrapped round your neck and threatened with strangling or having your ears cut off . |
| 13 | He held up a battered , leather bag tied at the neck and stained with watery dark marks around the base . |
| 14 | [ 2 ] He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long-gone pride and he put it against the fish 's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side , his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff , and started to pass the boat , long , deep , wide , silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water . |
| 15 | Swift and deadly , they are armoured in shining silver and armed with white lances with diamond-hard tips which glitter like stars . |
| 16 | They are armoured in shining silver and armed with white lances with diamond-hard tips which glitter like stars . |
| 17 | He poured the neat whisky into the corner of his mouth and wriggled with slow , painful relief . |
| 18 | Within a plain exterior there was a large booking hall with long slender windows rising to an arched roof and decorated with Italian mosaics depicting aspects of Malayan life . |
| 19 | Two of them shook their heads and consulted with each other in low voices . |
| 20 | Tea and toast with cunty fingers . |
| 21 | Sections were deparaffinised by treatment with xylene overnight , rehydrated through a series of graded ethanol solutions and washed with distilled water . |
| 22 | He specifically targeted criminal gangs , saying that since May police had successfully " destroyed " a number of gangs and dealt with 796,000 crimes . |
| 23 | develop close collaboration in teaching , research and planning with other Educational Institutions . |
| 24 | Linked to egalitarianism and associated with many of the same writers and thinkers has been the drift to collectivism . |
| 25 | Costing £225 , the Kishtwar jacket is made from Gore-Tex fabric and comes with three zipped external pockets , a two-way front zip and Velcro cuffs . |
| 26 | These trussed rafters are scientifically designed for maximum economy , and rely on a number of angled struts and ties with special pressed metal connectors for their strength . |
| 27 | The myth of declining sexual potency and need with increasing age is now being actively questioned . |
| 28 | Closet countrysiders may want to pretend their patch is actually a corner of some Sussex meadow and picture it swagged with honeysuckle and waving with ox-eye daisies and scabious . |
| 29 | He then began a period in which he combined private study and writing with public service as Commissioner of Appeals and of the Board of Trade and Plantations . |
| 30 | NED SHERRIN presides over an hour of entertaining , provocative talk and badinage with special guests EMMA FREUD and JOHN WALTERS live on Radio 4 from the Elmwood Hall . |