Example sentences of "and [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was scarcely called upon to say a word as she talked , pale smoke drifting from her mouth and her nose and hanging in the light . |
| 2 | The thin figure leaned over and whispered in the sleeper 's ear . |
| 3 | Duncan looked at the long green grass and , as he looked , the wind blew strong and the tall , green grasses swayed and whispered in the wind . |
| 4 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 5 | ‘ There is a huge volume of milk sold and consumed in the UK and that is not going to change . |
| 6 | How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future ? |
| 7 | a fat woman … frightened and fainted in the street ; |
| 8 | She 'd dry herself and change in the bathroom . |
| 9 | For beginners , then , there is loss and change in the transfer to print — loss of immediacy of relevance , loss of vividness , loss of support in the search for meaning . |
| 10 | There has been a lot of research and change in the treatment of mental illness or frailty over the last few years . |
| 11 | Consider the implications of successiveness and change in the titles or subtitles of some recent books : After the new Criticism by Frank Lentricchia ; On Deconstruction. : Theory and Criticism After Structuralism by Jonathan Culler ; Displacement. : Derrida and After , edited by Mark Krupnick ; Beyond Deconstruction by Howard Felperin ; The Contest of Faculties. : Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction by Christopher Norris . |
| 12 | Your speaking of the balance between tradition and change in the evolution of art raises a crucial question : I mean the question of progress . |
| 13 | It would not be surprising , either , if this flux and change in the self were to generate a more flexible response to morality , and one that is peculiarly sensitive to the aesthetic dimension . |
| 14 | These features of family life — which it should be re-emphasized are indicators of , rather than the reasons for , problems — include the age and maturity of the parents , burdens carried by a family , consistency and change in the lives of children , dynamics and support within the family , and the experiences and characteristics of individual family members . |
| 15 | The Committee was not laying down patterns of teacher education to be followed , but was contributing , at a time of considerable difficulty and change in the system , to debate about future directions . |
| 16 | I go and change in the toilet and wear my mac like a dressing gown , and then hop into my sleeping bag and take it off . |
| 17 | The relationship between the ESSE/L Project and change in the schools |
| 18 | Some further evidence of the complexities involved in handling the problems of the relationship between social and economic change and change in the family comes from accounts of the way in which families handle problems of migration in societies undergoing processes of urbanization and industrialization . |
| 19 | In the years 1975–81 , two substantial sociolinguistic research projects were completed in Belfast , Northern Ireland , concerned with language variation and change in the city . |
| 20 | On the other hand , you can have something like the gang of four in China that creates such tensions and anxieties in the society and so many people get to feel that things have gone from bad to worse , that you get a shake up and change in the regime . |
| 21 | Now you may be thinking that these options sound very dramatic and limited in the context of social chit-chat . |
| 22 | Bradley finds it hard to imagine ‘ a stockbroker and a labourer screaming and bellowing in the wilds of Dorset ’ , but at the same time , he suspects that perhaps British men might get some benefit out of it . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 24 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 25 | We all had a whale of a time , drifting on the surface and drowning in the depths with the four fishermen . |
| 26 | Neither of these countries , poor as they are , can hope to recoup these losses and develop in the future without external assistance . |
| 27 | Even liberals believed that the colonies would remain loyal if they received economic benefits and shared in the ideals of liberty , equality and fraternity , which France provided through her ‘ civilising mission ’ . |
| 28 | She could be heard hawking and coughing in the upstairs bedroom . |
| 29 | With the commanding posture that was the unmistakable and indelible mark of St. Cyr , and clad in the uniform of ‘ horizon blue ’ , there was no more impressive sight on a French parade ground . |
| 30 | You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it , rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room . |