Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a study of life in Muncie , Indiana , and typified by an eclecticism of data sources . |
| 2 | He meant that the deepest and profoundest truth , the truth that ultimately matters and is in the end really worth grasping , can not be of the sort that can be contemplated and appropriated in an attitude of serene detachment . |
| 3 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 4 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 5 | It is often helpful to create several small files ( 5-10 entries maximum ) with varying layouts and indexing as an aid to discussion at the design stage . |
| 6 | The Austro-German bourgeoisie of Vienna and Bohemia turned its back on liberalism , and plunged into an orgy of intolerant romantic nationalism . |
| 7 | A germ found in Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford has resulted in dozens of cases of stomach pains and diarrhoea and led to an order for all drinking water to be boiled before use . |
| 8 | The change caused agencies to re-think their attitude to TV commercials , and led to an increase in animation and product-based films using trick photography . |
| 9 | The 1973 crisis justified this choice and led to an acceleration of the building programme . |
| 10 | Lifting the secrecy curtain subjected the fusion programme to the scrutiny of the scientific community , and led to an infusion of new people and new organisations into the research programme . |
| 11 | It is the only tram in service where you have to climb up to your seat and sit at an angle of 20 degrees behind two spacemen in the front compartment ! |
| 12 | The Greiner administration , which had lost its tiny majority because of Metherell 's earlier decision to leave the Liberal Party and sit as an independent , then recovered its position when the Liberal candidate won the by-election in Metherell 's former seat . |
| 13 | I 've known women to choose something highbrow to impress me — and sit in an agony of boredom all the way through . |
| 14 | I find it hard to think of any more splendid compensation than conferment of the power to transfer a very large sum of money from a newspaper which I dislike and despise to an organisation or institution which I love and admire . |
| 15 | The political skills you have to increase your power and influence within an organization . |
| 16 | Gandhi wrote to him on 14 February and asked for an interview . |
| 17 | As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance . |
| 18 | He was unable to repay , and asked for an extension . |
| 19 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 20 | The letter — seen and authenticated by an expert for the Daily Mirror — is one of hundreds just unearthed as Presley fans around the world mark the anniversary of the death of ‘ The King ’ 15 years ago . |
| 21 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 22 | Having missed the deadline to register as a Democratic candidate in the November elections , he resigned from the party on Aug. 13 and registered as an independent . |
| 23 | He was handcuffed to another prisoner and placed in an army , armoured personnel carrier . |
| 24 | Isotropic bile samples were immediately transferred into small sterile brown glass tubes , flushed with nitrogen , sealed , and placed in an incubator at 37°C without shaking throughout the study period . |
| 25 | Larger peels can be sandwiched between two glass plates and placed in an episcope for projection . |
| 26 | Just as the scathing desperation of a band 's early days helps fuel the sentiment and connect with an audience in a similar position , then a band 's later lifestyle has no connection with the audience who , quite naturally , do n't give a damn about the problems of being pop stars . |
| 27 | The Foreign Office minister , Douglas Hogg , told Tehran 's most senior diplomat in London that the threats against the author were a violation of international law and amounted to an incitement to commit murder . |
| 28 | In September 1944 , as the Red Army advanced into Belorussia , Domanov 's Cossacks had been moved across Europe and assigned to an area around Tolmezzo in northern Italy , then under the control of Italian partisans . |
| 29 | Let me try and think of an example that is n't confidential . |
| 30 | The neck joint is similar to Ibanez and Heartfield 's ‘ all access ’ variety which does away with the usual bulky metal plate and offers as an alternative four recessed bolts and a sloping , shaped heel , which really does feel good under the hand . |