Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 'll go through the consultation paper and pick out sort of paragraph by paragraph and any that we particular agree or disagree with . |
| 2 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 3 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 4 | On April 2 hundreds of protesters in Tripoli succeeded in entering the Venezuelan embassy and burned down part of it ( the Venezuelan permanent representative at the UN , Diego Arria , having been president of the Security Council for the month of March ) . |
| 5 | Drake easily told by greatly elongated central tail feathers , 4 in. of total length , combined with striking pattern of dark head and throat and white breast and stripe up side of neck . |
| 6 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |
| 7 | Altogether a fine series , well executed and holding out promise of more good things to come . |
| 8 | All his talents were called on on such a day — his powers of calculation , of decision-making , of patience , of amiability , of firmness and above all of steering his excellently stocked , freshly painted and cleaned up vessel of an inn through the increasingly unpredictable currents of the day . |
| 9 | The revolution of February 1917 further aggravated this situation and brought about disruption of industry . |
| 10 | In other moves to improve the government 's human rights record , Babangida instructed the Federal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau to compile a list of people held under Decree 2 of 1984 , which permitted detention for six months without trial , and to speed up prosecution of those against whom evidence existed . |
| 11 | When his father-in-law died unexpectedly in 1898 , Stuart became a director of J. & J. Colman , moved to Norwich , and took over management of the firm . |
| 12 | As light passed through the tiny dyed starch grains , each one acted like a red blue or green filter , passing light of mainly that colour , and blocking out light of other colours . |
| 13 | As light passed through the tiny dyed starch grains , each one acted like a red blue or green filter , passing light of mainly that colour , and blocking out light of other colours . |
| 14 | Later there were bands like The Vibrators , The Stranglers and The Hammersmith Gorillas , horrors one and all , but pride of place in the pub rock pantheon went to Wilko Johnson 's Dr Feelgood and the wonderfully esoteric Kilburn And The High Roads , featuring Ian Dury and kitted out courtesy of Let It Rock . |
| 15 | Despite this , Potidaia paid tribute to Athens , who in 433/2 demanded that Potidaia should send home the Corinthian magistrates and pull down part of her walls . |
| 16 | 7 On leaving wood turn right on footpath across garden of ex-railway cottage and follow along edge of golf course and by left side of clubhouse and on to track . |
| 17 | Ideally Moss would like the open system vendors to go one step further and take over development of Tivoli 's distributed management framework entirely — ‘ because they should be doing the standards and API work . ’ |
| 18 | Ideally , Moss would like the open system vendors to go one step further and take over development of Tivoli 's distributed management framework entirely — ‘ because they should be doing the standards and API work . ’ |
| 19 | to help mother stand up to maternal grandmother and take over control of Darren |
| 20 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 21 | She crouched and picked up part of the brickwork that had crumbled away from a supporting pillar . |