Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] and [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its best , this genre produced some of the extended song-cycles of Pink Floyd but at the other extreme were dozens of overblown ‘ concept albums ’ dealing with elves or spaceships and played on synthesizers and other electronic equipment . |
| 2 | They stole cash and gems and escaped in the parents ' Mercedes . |
| 3 | Yet within Oxford her energies and charm were employed chiefly in defence of the home students , a growing society that included mature students and foreigners and prospered under her quietly autocratic but kindly regime . |
| 4 | She had also read about old people 's homes that ruthlessly exploited their pensioners : unscrupulous proprietors grabbed all they could squeeze from the social services but gave little back to the residents ; they cut corners on staff , food , laundry , and amenities and added to their profits by pocketing the difference between their sparse expenditures and the sums they actually received . |
| 5 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 6 | Better than that was riding on his back while he went down on hands and knees and neighed like a horse . |
| 7 | Deletions were cloned as described in Materials and Methods and transfected into F9 cells by electroporation . |
| 8 | She cooked me egg and chips and sat by me while I ate . |
| 9 | She took off her dress and shoes and lay beside Joshua on the narrow bed . |
| 10 | I pulled on some socks and shoes and ran to the iron door . |
| 11 | I pulled on a sweater and trousers and crept down the stairs in bare feet . |
| 12 | The night wind whipped his grey cropped hair , bit at his ears and cheeks and clawed at the grey robe wrapped round his body . |
| 13 | IF YOU drive through south Coventry the name Nellist assaults you from every angle — daubed in graffiti on walls and bridges and flagged on hundreds of homes . |
| 14 | The women wore ball gowns and jewels and looked like royal butterflies . |
| 15 | We stopped for a while and , leaving Billy well secured outside with Pat , took our headlamps and torches and walked into the level . |
| 16 | She paused by the table with the bottles and glasses and looked at him . |
| 17 | As we went out through the kitchen door , I dropped my talcum powder and things and stood to one side , towards the window-sill , as if I was looking to see where they 'd gone . |
| 18 | They farmed sheep and pigs and cattle and lived in homesteads . |
| 19 | We pitched our tents in a wood of olive trees and wellingtonias and went to sleep . |
| 20 | After eleven o'clock some of them , having been refused drink , gathered around the ‘ Bullers ' Arms ’ , whereupon ‘ … the police were then called in , when several of the ring-leaders were taken into custody ; upon this a general cry of ‘ One and All ’ was given and a party of nearly 200 speedily gathered around the house , which they attacked , demolishing the doors and windows and succeeded in rescuing their companions ’ . |
| 21 | It was not long before feminists inquired m-to the reasons for and the mechanisms underlying these pervasive exclusions and distortions and wondered about the part played by ‘ man-made language ’ ( Spender , 1980 ) in upholding a gender order in which women are systematically subordinated . |
| 22 | In much the way that curriculum development and in-service education relinquished their dependence on centralised projects and courses and came to be focused on the particular contexts of schools , so also the preoccupation of project evaluation with theoretical models and procedures gave way to a practical need to solve concrete problems of educational practice in schools . |
| 23 | In her most recent show , d2 , Butcher 's dancers wore plain black or white trousers and T-shirts and danced from the stage up on to catwalks ; architectural drawings were projected and electronic music accompanied them . |
| 24 | And from then on Duncan ate grass and leaves and grew to be a real , big dinosaur . |
| 25 | Payne cut his own tools from honeysuckle , acorns , vines and leaves and worked in a restrained manner on a red-brown calf impregnated with birch bark oil — a leather often known as ‘ russia ’ . |
| 26 | In this case , the court repudiated the suggestion that consent should be given the narrow meaning advocated by Professor Williams and others and pointed to the distinction between consent and submission . |
| 27 | The track , rough and strewn with stones , climbed , at first gently , through sheep-cropped turf bristling with reeds and thistles and islanded with stretches of bracken . |
| 28 | Finally , sensing that we were on a loser and not keen on the mile-long trek back to the crossing point , I took off boots and socks and walked into the fast-flowing stream . |
| 29 | We took off our shoes and socks and waded among the rushes surrounding the hidden , scalloped bay where the stream draining the ornamental pond near the house splashed down to the loch , a hundred metres up the shore from the old boat-house . |
| 30 | Sara went upstairs to the front bedroom , dumped her knapsack on the floor , took off her socks and shorts and sat on one of the beds . |