Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue .
2 The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important .
3 or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies
4 Declining yews lose needles and develop in the same pattern as other conifers , and affected beech show specific changes to their branching structure .
5 The laboratory method appeals to those who believe that , in the last analysis , human behaviour can be studied and explained in the same way as can events in the world of nature .
6 Again in Capital Marx set out to demonstrate that the workings of an entire economic system could be logically derived from and explained by a few materialist premises and the theory of class struggle .
7 I 'm not a social eater and I hate talking and eating at the same time .
8 The other player then picks up four beads from one hole on her side and plays in the same way .
9 Lift one elbow to touch the opposite knee once , return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
10 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
11 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
12 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
13 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
14 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
15 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
16 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
17 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
18 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same el bow .
19 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
20 Return to the lying position and repeat with the same elbow .
21 Often , the usual guidelines still apply , but it may be reassuring to highlight and comment on a few of the special situations in which some parents are placed .
22 It 's a thing I love and hate at the same time .
23 This kind of desire for a natural — and ‘ reasonable ’ — religion developed strongly in deism , and led to the same kind of conflict with orthodoxy as with the Bible and miracles .
24 Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System .
25 The more fundamental causes of conflict lay far deeper — in the basic conflict of two powers anxious to expand their interests and influence in the same region .
26 He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him , and asked for no more than that .
27 It may be noted that in Criminal Law anyone who aids , counsels , or procures the commission of an offence is liable to be tried and punished in the same way as if he were a principal offender .
28 ’ The section defines an ‘ existing company ’ as meaning a company formed and registered under the former Companies Acts .
29 Mary Jane Wilson founded a religious order in the island , whose members worked in the hospitals and taught in the many parish schools .
30 Dragging with them seventeen unwieldy brass cannon from Edinburgh castle , they took Norham castle on the south bank of the Tweed , and pressed on a few miles to Flodden in Northumberland .
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