Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 2 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |
| 3 | Then , on some mysterious cue , they emerge simultaneously from the soil and change into winged adults . |
| 4 | The last ten years have seen the beginnings of a trend away from the study of objects for their own sake , stimulated partly by the discovery and excavation of settlement sites which have encouraged the formulation of a new range of questions ; the nature of and change in human societies have replaced the barren side of the artefacts . |
| 5 | Development and change in everyday likes and dislikes |
| 6 | Recent research reveals the importance of kinship and lineage in non-human primates . |
| 7 | The development of play leads naturally towards involvement in games , which begin in imitative practice such as tying a shoelace , and develop towards symbolic constructions such as of villages or weddings . |
| 8 | Eleven such triple junctions , each possibly associated with a separate hot spot , have been identified on the continental part of the African Plate and an intriguing problem is the way in which they may subsequently promote continental rupture and develop into spreading centres . |
| 9 | He stressed that community ethics must question a system that marginalises people by monopolising information and communication systems and insist on radical changes in society 's communication structures . |
| 10 | WACC is equally grateful to all those women who keep up the pressure and insist on equal opportunities for women and men . |
| 11 | Perhaps they would go down to the harbour in the evening and watch the yachts coming in to the anchorage , and sit with other groups at the chairs and tables outside the Bell Inn . |
| 12 | It is therefore incorrect to attribute all the credit for the promise of full employment to the conversion of men of power and influence to Keynesian ideas . |
| 13 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 14 | By the early 1970s the struggle was over , and the decline in the Chiefs of Staff 's activity and influence in national affairs was soon being reflected in the steady drop in the frequency of their meetings . |
| 15 | Signor Datrino attributes his success and influence within Russian circles to the ideal combination of Russian fatalism and Italian fantasy , noting that he has achieved enormous recognition for his efforts , including the patronage of the Italian President Scalfaro who will be paying a visit . |
| 16 | The colours range from brown to black and pink salmon-beige and alternate in large bands running from top to bottom . |
| 17 | I would imagine that fish such as Elephant-Noses and Knife Fish , which navigate and communicate by electrical impulses would also benefit , being especially sensitive to electricity . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a sort of drug , travelling , ’ Minton wrote to a friend in July 1953 , ‘ which seems to prevent me thinking — I feel vaguely irresponsible and peer at historic monuments . |
| 19 | They squawk and scratch with unturned-out feet in temps levés and batterie , elbows flapping and heads pecking and poking . |
| 20 | The three front men appear to have worked out a rota so that when one of them tired of the constant leaping about he can take a breather while the other two step in and compensate with eye-catching leaps of their own . |
| 21 | The large arrowhead marks the position of the furrow that separates midbrain and hindbrain in normal embryos ( b ) and the position where the furrow is missing in antibody-injected embryos ( a ) . |
| 22 | Bourdieu , though less witty and stylish , achieves a large number of advances over Veblen 's account in terms of the sophistication of his analysis and his ability to move this critique away from the characterization of a particular segment of the population to the analysis of French society as a whole , and from simple emulation and display to complex forces of strategy and social reproduction . |
| 23 | By eschewing such girls he avoided a lot of foreign in-laws and chatter in disparate tongues , and the misunderstandings that are inevitably worsened by not quite speaking the same language . |
| 24 | Roth supported himself by freelance writing until in 1939 he received a specially created readership in post-biblical Jewish studies at the University of Oxford , where he was also mentor and host to Jewish students . |
| 25 | Dagarti African music and dance with evocative displays of the history and landscapes of the Commonwealth . |
| 26 | Celebrating its 10th Anniversary , the Festival will be mounting a very special weekend of traditional music , song and dance with leading performers from around Britain and Europe . |
| 27 | My mother wanted to live a posh life and have dinner parties with other rich Jews and cook gefilte fish and wear a wig and dance with fashionable rabbis at weddings , you can imagine how Dad took to that . |
| 28 | He may also lose weight , lose interest in sex and suffer from obscure pains ( Brownsberger et al. , 1971 ) . |
| 29 | But they would enter into a five year contract and qualify for annual payments of about £30 per hectare for the maintenance of land free of non-agricultural development . |
| 30 | Your only course of action this April seems to be to avoid any further confrontations and concentrate on professional interests or projects specially designed to exploit your creative abilities , as very shortly after the full Moon in Libra on the 10th there should be a beneficial alteration in your work . |