Example sentences of "[verb] and [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For consensus decision-making to work and for an atmosphere of trust to develop between managers and subordinates , there must be an erosion of status-consciousness . |
| 2 | The Collected Poems , edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes , was published in 1981 . |
| 3 | In 1917 Maxwell returned from France badly wounded and with an MC . |
| 4 | Many farm workers join the union , therefore , not for ideological reasons , but for the friendly society benefits which it offers and as an insurance against ‘ problems ’ with the tied cottage , ‘ just in case ’ . |
| 5 | They stood to leave and as an afterthought Cobalt got up , too , and saw them to the door . |
| 6 | He gazed in unwilling fascination at the blazing , smoking plane , now directly abeam and at an altitude of under a thousand feet . |
| 7 | Therefore voluntary aided schools are in effect a kind of partnership : the premises are provided and to an extent kept up by the religious or other body which established them whilst the cost of running the schools is borne by the public purse . |
| 8 | She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul . |
| 9 | It had never really occurred to me to put things in those terms but I can see what he meant and to an extent he was partly right . |
| 10 | Theses are often the result of a lack of understanding by non-linguists of the implications involved and of an unwillingness to confront them . |
| 11 | Northamptonshire mumming , Shrovetide football , and " Plough Mondays " are examples of practices which were no longer encouraged and to an extent positively discouraged by a gentry which increasingly distanced itself from rude diversions and vulgar games . |
| 12 | bedsit and after an hour and a half |
| 13 | Gilbert and Frye watched them leave and for an instant it seemed as if Gilbert wanted to dash out after them again . |
| 14 | Marr never stopped talking and enthusing and within an hour they were already writing songs together . |
| 15 | The red death returned and for an eternity he was nothing at all . |