Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Immediately it sprouted numerous legs and scrabbled for a purchase . |
| 33 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 34 | But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
| 37 | Put it inside your trainers and run around the garden . |
| 38 | The women work and eat and sleep in an atmosphere thick with impalpable hairs and tainted with the sickly smell of the skins … the average daily earnings are 1/1d . |
| 39 | The boys play the role of husbands and behave in the same way as they see their fathers do in their respective homesteads . |
| 40 | The history of religions is a history of intolerance and cruelty towards non-believers , and the love extends only to those who are believers and loved by the same supernatural being . |
| 41 | The channel of communication is the copper wire which carries the electrical signals and runs to the distant end . |
| 42 | About 1 pm they got the signals and moved round the curve into Northgate tunnel and headed for Llandudno . |
| 43 | Take himself off to Yzordderrex and set up business with Peccable ; marry Hoi-Polloi despite her crossed eyes ; have a litter of kids and retire to the Hills of the Conscious Cloud , in the Third , and raise parrots . |
| 44 | I saw women dealing with having kids and working at the same time and the kids were happy because of the closeness with their mother . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Like a sea-anemone it will close down to a blob if touched , and it feeds on small organisms which brush past its tentacles , by shooting out special poisonous threads to paralyse its victim , which can then be collected by the tentacles and drawn into the hydra 's mouth . |
| 47 | He tripped over his groceries and sprawled on the pavement at the mouth of the alley . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 50 | Follow the pre-race qualifying sessions and go behind the scenes for exclusive pictures and interviews with the teams . |
| 51 | By the mid-1970s the general policy of winning the confidence of the farming organizations and working on the basis of persuasion and advice was being increasingly questioned . |
| 52 | I mean , you can do that in various ways , by inviting them all to come along , you know , have a Saturday down at , invite them to come along as representatives of the organizations and talk with the parish council |
| 53 | My first page of writing was about Bluebell Railway where we used to go with my brothers and ride on the sea bed have you seen this Kevin ? |
| 54 | Dr Gysi had the advantage of being a completely new face in mainstream East German politics , after previously concentrating on defending dissidents and fighting for the recognition of opposition groups . |
| 55 | At some later date he abandoned all his offices and journeyed to the Hijaz ( which journey both Mecdi and el-Kefevi have taken to be for the purpose of going on the pilgrimage ) ; alter his return he did not again hold any office . |
| 56 | The senior chief inspector and I have made the best estimate we can of the savings that can be made in the complement of Her Majesty 's inspectorate based in local offices and engaged in the inspection of schools in liaison with local education authorities . |
| 57 | There is a shortage of industrial sites in the South-east of England and rentals are now coming up after lagging behind offices and housing through the late 1980s . |
| 58 | ‘ We are starting now , love David ’ , said the first sheet , which was promptly glued to the T of the great , gold SALT 'S sign hijacked from the mill offices and hoisted above the 15 by 9 ½ft frame divided into 144 sections for the fax picture . |
| 59 | Contact the solicitor or secretary of your local County or District Council to ask if you can visit the offices and talk about the job to one of the solicitors . |
| 60 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |