Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wilton weaving department was moved and centralised into its present location . |
| 2 | Faced with a massive majority in the House of Commons and racked by their own internal problems , for much of the decade the opposition parties had a distinctly toothless appearance . |
| 3 | Being ‘ dog people ’ they were interested in the poodles ' performance and commented on what lovely dogs , ‘ Pity you do n't know how to show them to their best advantage . ’ |
| 4 | Only in a secure and loving atmosphere can the child cope with the shocks that have preceded and accompanied their coming into care , and develop to their full potential . |
| 5 | All matters concerning Colin Olivier Louis Tuck were dealt with in that small group of offices behind their own perimeter fence and guarded by their own troops . |
| 6 | Full spatial relationships can be obtained and checked in their orthogonal views . |
| 7 | He saw the stone face and the living face unbelievably alike , and checked in his steady advance , himself for a moment still as stone . |
| 8 | All three Synods have some common features , a desire to be attentive to the circumstances of today 's world , a desire to deepen our mutual understanding of what it means to be the church , following our different callings and collaborating in our common mission , and a call to renew our sense of being an evangelising church . |
| 9 | Come up and repeat to your left side . |
| 10 | Gently ease into this position and repeat with your left leg out to the side . |
| 11 | She had out-lived three husbands and gathered in their respective estates , investing the money shrewdly , knowing to a penny what she was worth . |
| 12 | Finding her voice at last , and reacting to his disapproving tone , she retorted , ‘ What were you doing , following me ? ’ |
| 13 | Barnett looked away quickly and gazed at his own pale face again . |
| 14 | Ask at least one other person to read and comment on your final draft too ! |
| 15 | Only the last survived a long complicated life as a passion , and led to her single-handed revival of the eighteenth-century art of shell pictures , an obsessive pursuit of Irish aristocratic ladies in the time of Sheridan and Goldsmith . |
| 16 | Harriet Taylor 's theories made a major impact on Mill , and led to their mutual conception and drafting of On Liberty ( 1859 ) . |
| 17 | PROFESSOR GRIFF , rap fans wo n't need reminding , is the chap whose intemperate outbursts concerning global zionist conspiracies and the like , caused embarrassment even among his then collaborators , Public Enemy , and led to his ultimate departure from that fold . |
| 18 | The British murmur ‘ You must come and stay with us some time , ’ and when they part they say ‘ Let's keep in touch ’ and they certainly do n't mean it , but it greases the wheels of intercourse . |
| 19 | And she has promised a reward to whosoever finds the keys : if it is a man , he is to marry the princess and be her husband and true love ; if it is a maiden she will become the princess 's first lady-in-waiting and sit at her left hand . |
| 20 | We used to go to a certain bar and sit at our favourite table , where we would be joined by a pair of bedizened harridans with dyed orange hair and chipped scarlet fingernails . |
| 21 | To do that they have to come to earth and sit on something solid . |
| 22 | Now her boyfriend vanishes , and Tommy and Iain just kind of move in , take over , rearrange the furniture , and sit in her front room drinking litre bottles of Old English Cider . |
| 23 | They sauntered and stopped without warning and she had to duck and weave through their chattering bunches . |
| 24 | It was designed to impress and overawe by its sheer size : 262 metres long and 41 metres high at its highest point , over the transept . |
| 25 | The ministers of that ‘ element ’ held positions of authority and influence within their various denominations perhaps unequalled , whatever Owen might argue , in any Protestant country . |
| 26 | ‘ Approval of these plans will enable us to retain and build on our existing workforce , which is what we want to do , otherwise we would have to find a completely new site , probably out of Wales , too far away for most of our existing employees . ’ |
| 27 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 28 | When she put her head round the door and asked in her usual , conspiratorial manner if he wanted tea , Henry said , ‘ Tea would be a delight , my dear ! ’ |
| 29 | The metaphysician uses the word ‘ substance ’ of the ‘ thing itself ’ , and thinks of its various properties as attached to it in much the same way that garments become attached to a clothes horse . |
| 30 | She flashed him a brief and insincere smile , her eyes puffy and filled with her own worries . |