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

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1 The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him .
2 It means instead the end of childhood and freedom , the beginning of a new life as a slave and chattel at the bottom of a hierarchy in someone else 's family .
3 At last Cranston belched , stretched , and beamed round the tavern , snapping his fingers to call Talbot over .
4 Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence .
5 This doorway was made high in order to permit laden waggons or carts to enter the barn and to unload from the threshing floor into the bays .
6 Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a minute before adding the cooked onion , extra oil and chopped olives .
7 By the wall stood a rattan couch with cushions ; and hanging from a bracket by the open french windows was a small brightly polished bell with a faded maroon tassel hanging from the clapper .
8 And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver .
9 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 .
10 and hanging around the street cos then that will
11 It was a warm and friendly night , and the sea swished and whispered on the sand .
12 He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell .
13 The thin figure leaned over and whispered in the sleeper 's ear .
14 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 .
15 They wandered the savannah during the day , looking for food , and sometimes met and socialised by the lake with other groups of hominids .
16 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 .
17 Because we boys used to like the windbound lying and talking and in the galley and smelling of the coming from the galley , all the saucepans and things like that .
18 Nina came in soon after , flapping her arms like pterodactyl wings , and pounced on a girl he had never seen before .
19 He dashed across the garden and pounced upon the garden gate , pressing the latch with his big feet .
20 But now she could see the charm , could read the meaning , of the observer 's role , a meaning inaccessible to a sixteen-year-old , to a thirty-year-old — for the observer was not , as she had from the vantage , the disadvantage of childhood supposed , charged with an envious and impotent malice , and consumed with a fear of imminent death : no , the observer was filled and informed with a quick and lively and long-established interest in all those that passed before , in all those that moved and circled and wheeled around , was filled with intimate connections and loving memories and hopes and concerns and prospects .
21 The actual goods and services selected include a wide range of food items ; alcoholic drinks ; tobacco ; housing costs ( including mortgage interest payments ) ; fuel and light ; durable household goods ( such as furniture , television sets and hardware ) ; clothing and footwear ; transport and vehicles ( including petrol and oil ) ; a large selection of miscellaneous goods ( including books , newspapers and stationery ) ; services ( which include postage and telephone charges , and all entertainments ) ; and meals bought and consumed outside the home .
22 This was why he was feared and tabooed as the totem , but this was also why he was periodically sacrificed and consumed by the clan brothers in rituals which re-enacted the primal trauma and the occasion of his first emergence as a psychological force of self-restraint .
23 Where literary criticism is concerned , we are faced with the depressing reality that this is now just one more academic specialism , a large specialism , admittedly , produced by and consumed within the academy .
24 How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future ?
25 Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future .
26 a fat woman … frightened and fainted in the street ;
27 To do this exercise , put the carriage to E , where you 'll find it tucks to the right and knits to the left .
28 The situation has improved in many ways , but it is not easy to overcome the problems created by natural obstacles and compounded by the legacy of centuries of neglect .
29 Her mother fastening Melanie 's coat snugly at the neck and tucking in a scarf .
30 And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once .
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