Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ice crystallizes out and accumulates in a surface layer which thickens and consolidates ; on calm nights with air temperatures well below freezing point a layer 20 cm deep may form overnight and be firm enough to take the weight of a man by morning . |
| 2 | The Baby parade has continued ever since , encompassing such ditties as ‘ I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store ’ , ‘ You Better Keep Babying Baby ( Or Your Baby 's Gon na Bye-Bye You ) ’ , and ‘ Baby Let Your Drawers Hang Down ’ , the latter being performed at Babe Connors ' Club in St Louis , where the girls did bumps and grinds on a mirror floor . |
| 3 | John McGahern , on the other hand , writes , speaks and thinks in a style that is so sparse it defies anyone to deny the truth at its core . |
| 4 | Instead of fleeing , like most small birds approached this closely , the cut-throat sits firm and hisses like a snake . |
| 5 | The word ‘ spiritual ’ , for the purpose of the Alternative Religion , has been defined above and refers to a characteristic of developed human life . |
| 6 | The Archway Studio is just outside St Ives and belongs to a woman painter called Eileen Rich . |
| 7 | For the purposes of the Code , this expression includes takeover and merger transactions ( including reverse takeovers ) , partial offers , Court Schemes and offers by a parent company for shares in a subsidiary . |
| 8 | It has up to 64 input-output channels , supports TCP/IP and Ethernet , has C++ , C , and Fortran libraries with VAX extensions , supports Oracle in a client-server environment and fits in a deskside cabinet 29″ by 18″ by 30″ . |
| 9 | and goes on a course where everybody starts |
| 10 | From Holt Fleet the Way crosses the parkland of Ombersley Court and passes through the village of Ombersley and across Westwood Park to the town of Droitwich the route continues along the Roman Salt Way and goes through a variety of farms , follows a canal and passes through several small villages . |
| 11 | And when I come to stay , that darling girl Riva — the one you met last week — always gives up her own bed and sleeps on a sofa in her father 's study … ’ |
| 12 | However , four goals in the last 23 minutes quietened the boos and whistles from a crowd which arrived with great expectations and feared they would go home asking for more , much more . |
| 13 | McGrath 's inseparable companion is also a welcome guest and sits on a chair to the manner born with a serviette tucked into his collar . |
| 14 | A transcendent monster is not a monster who has escaped the loch and sits on a hill outside it . |
| 15 | The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division , which exercises a supervisory capacity over the inferior courts and sits as a court to which an appeal ‘ by way of case stated ’ may be made from the Magistrates ' Court , is bound by the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal and its own previous decisions . |
| 16 | It uses conventional techniques and materials ; is based on traditional imagery ; and sits behind a glass frame . |
| 17 | It accelerates electrons , rather than protons , and sits in a tunnel 27km long . |
| 18 | There also needs to be collective approach so every union worker in this section rejects the present derisory offer and builds on a campaign run by the Fire Brigade Union . |
| 19 | They argue that major innovations in products , or production techniques , are bunched together every fifty years or so and , when they occur , they have pervasive effects , generating a long boom which eventually peters out and turns into a slump . |
| 20 | The shoemaker dances with her in her first excitement and then collapses and turns into a tangle of dead leaves as she tires . |
| 21 | As they straighten , open field lines continue to convect polewards because they are embedded in the solar wind flow , but the ion acceleration decreases ( and turns to a deceleration poleward of the magnetic cusp ) . |
| 22 | From his pocket , he pulls out an exercise book and turns to a page with a map of the world on it . |
| 23 | The road through the forest twists and turns like a corkscrew , there is n't more than 100 yards of straight in about 40 miles , and it 's narrow and gravel . |
| 24 | However , listener 's intuitions based upon such cues as pauses , intonation and stress contours and turns within a conversation are normally reliable . |
| 25 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 26 | When our locals assessed success story , the Nissan Plant , sells less cars , it 's an economic threat and could become an economic disaster , when the plant sells more cars , it adds to the increase in number of cars on the roads which represents a pollution threat and contributes to a pollution disaster , let alone traffic problems of course . |
| 27 | And even if the Host is still able to hope that the Monk will show another side to his character as a tale-teller , the Monk will not , and retreats into a sort of sulky silence after being interrupted and asked for something less serious : The Monk as a character is explicitly and repeatedly compared and contrasted with the teller who succeeds him , the Nun 's Priest . |
| 28 | With wartime labour shortages and guaranteed farm prices prevailing , the union representatives on the boards found little difficulty in raising wages substantially and union membership increased by leaps and bounds as a result . |
| 29 | Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix . |
| 30 | This is to be found to the west of the town and starts from a point on the A.16 . |