Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I 'm saying is , I doubt if there are men practising the Black Arts and meeting on a regular basis for drunken orgies the way Parsons ’ and Dashwood 's men did . |
| 2 | Any schemes which promote the arts and lead to a wider understanding are obviously most welcome . |
| 3 | Add orange zest and chestnuts and saute for a couple of minutes . |
| 4 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 5 | But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single . |
| 6 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 7 | Immediately it sprouted numerous legs and scrabbled for a purchase . |
| 8 | A rapid and widescale communication network is thus provided , and good chants can be taken over from one set of fans and used against a different set the following week . |
| 9 | In 1954 one was washed ashore in Norway that measured 9 metres from the end of its body to the tip of its outstretched tentacles and weighed about a ton . |
| 10 | The thematic maps were computer generated , using information brought together from a number of databases and processed through a Geographic Information System with methods that were specially developed during the project . |
| 11 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 12 | Cupping his hand beneath Beth 's elbow , he looked deep into her eyes and said in a quieter voice , ‘ Do n't feel bad . |
| 13 | He opened his eyes and searched for a break in the streaming fog . |
| 14 | The head of the ‘ effigy ’ is a wax portrait — Bentham 's own head was removed , desiccated , provided with glass eyes and placed under a glass dome to sit between the feet of the auto-icon ; it , too , is now on public display — a little start-eyed , yet nevertheless recognizable ( Col. 3 ) . |
| 15 | ROS marches up behind her , puts his hands over her eyes and says with a desperate frivolity . ) |
| 16 | He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change . |
| 17 | Again Hassan closed his eyes and waited for a second . |
| 18 | Fabia stirred , awakened in her hotel bedroom that Monday and , as memory awakened with her , she abruptly closed her lovely green eyes and wished for a moment that she were back in England . |
| 19 | Miss Stoner put her hand over her eyes and cried for a minute . |
| 20 | Lee left Gabriel with his pirates , opened her eyes and focused on a sign on the wall in front of her , which read : ‘ WILL CLIENTS PLEASE SPEAK MORE QUIETLY IN FRONT OF THE BEAUTY ROOMS . |
| 21 | It was like the feeling he used to get when he played another game from his childhood ; that of closing his eyes and walking for a certain number of steps along , say , a wide path in a park . |
| 22 | She closed her eyes and concentrated for a second , shaking the blues from her thoughts . |
| 23 | What he got was rather different — Cooper was cut over both his eyes and plodded to a points decision before being roundly booed . |
| 24 | He groaned , opened his eyes and lapsed into a swoon . |
| 25 | Close your eyes and lie in a comfortable position . |
| 26 | Rita , beautifully and accurately played by Judy Holt , fulfils her personal goals and craving for a knowledge-filled , disciplined mind . |
| 27 | He grabbed two goals and signed as an apprentice for his home club . |
| 28 | This programme involves the total Catholic school community in discussion of Catholic school philosophy , ethos and goals and leads to an examination of programmes , structures , relationships and practices in the school . |
| 29 | An enclosed community guards and cares for an enclosed community and we the public gladly subcontract this duty , hoping that it will be carried out unseen and unheard . |
| 30 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |