Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as you hear the laughter , songs and shouts echo off the barren Sahelian hills you ca n't help but feel that Eritrea provides an optimistic boost for those who retain a faith in education . |
| 2 | The dealers , exporters and wholesalers walking round inspecting the produce , discussing prices , negotiating ; the hangers-on standing about in groups smoking , chatting ; the market police and official inspectors strolling round seeing that all is in order . |
| 3 | Riven began to feel his ears and toes thaw out . |
| 4 | He had deserved all he got — was that what ministers and teachers were paid for ? to draw up the militia lists and condemn the young men to the barracks and the camps , to swamp fever in the Indies and their legs and arms blown off ? |
| 5 | George had been tried out in a variety of parts , but each time he stepped on the stage he would stand with his legs and arms splayed out and drone monotonously . |
| 6 | Encourage young husbands and fathers to walk out to slaughter — again , no . |
| 7 | There are personality clashes in the band , and jealousies and rivalries spring up , but all dissent disappears when they perform . |
| 8 | Old grievances and resentments tumbled out , but in the light of day turned out to have less power than when they 'd been hidden away . |
| 9 | Surf and suntans , antipodean accents , endless brothers and sisters cropping up out of nowhere are all part of the appeal . |
| 10 | Berlin was always more densely textured than other European capitals , with industry , offices and homes jumbled up together even in the inner city , and , in spite of being a free-market island in a sea of socialism , west Berlin was the country 's biggest industrial centre . |
| 11 | Election candidates and doctors clashed over claims that waiting times have increased in the town . |
| 12 | Assorted addicts and alcoholics drifted in and out of the place . |
| 13 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 14 | To be basted with pitch in a dark pen full of brimstone where adders would suck at his eyes and snakes curl round his lying tongue ! |
| 15 | His eyes and ears picked out a flashing red light , an insistent warning bleep . |
| 16 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 17 | In every way possible preachers and troubadours stirred up enthusiasm . |
| 18 | Any junkie or Bowery red-eye comes limping down the street , then five sombre fatboys with baseball bats and axe-handles stride out of the nearest trattoria . |
| 19 | Brutal guards and trusties breaking down the fresh fish . |
| 20 | The guards and porters walked about , the bell was rung , the signal was given ad the train started off . |
| 21 | We 've got heathers , bushes and trees springing up all over the place . |
| 22 | But you know how it is , it 's family ties and kids growing up and then they grow up and have families of their own , then you get tied to the ch grandchildren or what have you . |
| 23 | But this is a brazen , unfettered summons , and whilst Pešek 's bass trumpets and timpani cut through well enough , there is no sense of primitive grandeur about the sound . |
| 24 | In all over 60 parties and groups put up candidates . |
| 25 | They had this very unhealthy large majority and they put before the House a Bill which offered total deregulation of shopping hours and to all intents and purposes stripped out nearly all the employment protection which has been a hallmark of Sunday trading legislation , certainly for the past century . |
| 26 | bald heads and napes bulge over armchairs |
| 27 | There were small studios for authors and composers to work in . |
| 28 | Having decided on the story , theme or music , choreographers should consider some vital rules of theatre and construct their ballet in the same way that authors and composers work out their books and compositions . |
| 29 | The year was 1931 and there were a lot of other lads and lassies standing around anxiously like me . |
| 30 | Walsh set a record for the most economical bowling in a one-day international between Test-playing countries with just eleven runs off eleven overs , but 21 no-balls and wides sent down by his chums did not help the struggle , especially as Gooch was ‘ out ’ twice to no-balls . |