Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the past we would like to share the profit with another charity and a member of the Executive Committee has offered to act as Promoter for us if we could donate enough to provide 10 holidays for handicapped and needy children where she works ( £600 ) . |
| 2 | Most of this was heathland until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it was largely enclosed . |
| 3 | Apart from the ecclesiastical buildings of northern and central Italy , there are many towers surviving from the Romanesque and Medieval periods when they were places of refuge , fortresses and , later , status symbols . |
| 4 | And that 's why in , in buildings , industrial and commercial buildings where we put heat and smoke detectors in for the protection of life and that 's why you put it in your homes . |
| 5 | It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived . |
| 6 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 7 | Sex had brought them together , bound them through the difficult and dangerous years when he was actively opposing the authorities . |
| 8 | The Deputy Under Secretary had known heat before , but that was in the dim and dark ages when he had been young and ambitious , working the Counter Insurgency ticket in faraway Malaya and Kenya . |
| 9 | He hung on to his memories , walking alone on the Geest , past the streets and houses and dark alleys where he had walked with her that winter . |
| 10 | Pete 's talk drifts towards dance music , an obvious passion , and countless interviews where he raged against people who view pop music as an art form . |
| 11 | ‘ And 10 years when he goes to senior school , 20 years maybe , when he is getting married . |
| 12 | Whereas I teach my dogs to disregard game birds and deer , the lurcher is very competent at acquiring the skills of poaching and is usually the animal to accompany deer and game-stealing gangs wherever they operate . |
| 13 | He had been seriously out of line , he was told ; meddling in dangerous and delicate situations where he had no business ; going way beyond his brief . |
| 14 | Since the intra-verbal support of the infinitive is a general virtual person , the speaker must also conceive the actual support to which the infinitive 's event is incident and the relation in time between the virtual and actual persons whenever he wants to use this verb form . |
| 15 | By 1987 , those figures had shot up to 2,870 cases of the use of knives in offences against the person and 4,630 cases where they were used in robberies — a huge increase . |
| 16 | They went home with pinched ears and bruised legs where she 'd hit them . |
| 17 | It 's a full time job , looking after a walled garden , three plots of vegetables and cut flowers , lawns , a rock garden and three greenhouses where he rears thousands of plants . |
| 18 | You will also enjoy the reassurance of free travel accident insurance with cover worth up to £50,000 for you , your spouse and dependant children whenever you buy travel tickets using your RAC MasterCard . |
| 19 | She was wearing a school uniform with white blouse and black shoes when she disappeared . |
| 20 | Of course , there were times when it lifted altogether , and many times when I was not aware of it . |
| 21 | The third rule is to wear hard-soled and protective shoes whenever you are setting up . |
| 22 | They had lived in London for many years and Ilsa drifted to the Polish cafes and Hungarian tea-rooms where she could talk with other emigres and drink Viennese coffee in fluted glasses . |
| 23 | Stephen was busy battening down all the shutters and doors with planks of wood and eight-inch nails when she arrived at Crystal Springs . |
| 24 | I went to more and more places where he had the chance to socialise , e.g. Mother and Toddlers etc . |
| 25 | Moreover , under UCTA 1977 , a distinction is drawn between the effect of exemption clauses where a person acquiring the goods deals as consumer and those cases where he does not . |
| 26 | She had never seen Ianthe handing out books to the ill-mannered grubby students and cranks of all ages who frequented the library of political and sociological books where she worked . |
| 27 | Lieutenant-general Wolfgang Schwanitz , the new head of the Office for National Security , the former Stasi , was asked the other day why he had not opposed and exposed excesses when he was deputy head of the organisation . |
| 28 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 29 | Reed disarmingly describes himself as ‘ nearly six feet tall and 13 stones when I 'm at my best ’ , but the banners appeared in force all the same . |
| 30 | Reed disarmingly describes himself as ‘ nearly six feet tall and 13 stones when I 'm at my best ’ , but the banners appeared in force all the same . |