Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was invited to get up and conduct the band half way through the evening which , according to eyewitnesses , he did with gusto . |
| 2 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 3 | Since the first performance of Giselle , certain composers and arrangers have used leitmotifs fur one or several characters and repeat the leitmotifs each time the characters appear . |
| 4 | The illusionism which conjures a complete and natural ( I would prefer apocalypticnatural ) city out of materials as unpromising as the colour yellow , also yields up Raskolnikov like a natural secretion , and this vouchsafing process encompasses and transcends the resources both of first- and third-person narrative . |
| 5 | However , I believe that with a bit of determination to do so the majors can find a way of opening more of their catalogues to US buyers and make a bit more money in the process . |
| 6 | I stopped to dislodge one of them , hoping to carry it and make a camp-fire that evening . |
| 7 | The basic philosophy involves farming as far as possible within a closed system : in a nutshell , growing crops to feed the animals and using the manure those animals produce to fertilize the soil in order to grow more crops . |
| 8 | They made an order quashing the decision and made a declaration that |
| 9 | The ‘ motivation ’ for the session we watched was a backcloth of a ski slope ; the children were divided into 2 teams and given a skier each to race down the slope . |
| 10 | There 's a nursery as well with places for a hundred children aged between one and eight.The smallest children are taken off their mothers hands while they 're out at work and given a meal each day . |
| 11 | As it rolled away , I realized I had left my parcel inside , and given the coachman all the coins in my purse . |
| 12 | So what if you go berserk and eat an ounce more lettuce than you think you are eating ! |
| 13 | I came back and got a deal that summer and started the album immediately but there 've been various setbacks along the way . |
| 14 | When I come back I expect you all to have worked hard and got the team another 9 points and a top of the league position . |
| 15 | Room must be left on the upwind side in case there is a cable break or premature release , and on the down wind side in case the wing touches and causes a swing that way . |
| 16 | He completed , took orders and entered the novitiate all within a couple of years . |
| 17 | That 's why I put on the weight , I just stand there all day you see got a load them in and press the button that 's all I do all day , I do n't move ! |
| 18 | Drivers of the test cars were told to drive around a small town and tap a pedal each time they spotted a ‘ problem ’ signal . |
| 19 | I 'll try and catch the goals this afternoon , cos |
| 20 | Erch turned the bakelite switch and twiddled the dial all the way from Hilversum to Daventry and back . |
| 21 | You know I mean if you try and grab the wind all you you 're left with is a clenched fist . |
| 22 | The first is to take visual systems apart , identify their components and characterize the way these components work . |
| 23 | However , it is all too easy to overfeed and pollute the water and kill the babies that way . |
| 24 | In the past they had been happy to sit and watch the match all afternoon ( even if that meant dying from the cold ! ) . |
| 25 | He put the home side on their way with an excellent goal in the first half , had what looked like a perfectly good effort ruled out in the second and caused the Latvians all sorts of problems with his well timed runs from deep . |
| 26 | These sites were special and , despite the noise of an adjacent bus station and wailing loudspeaker from a nearby Moslem minaret , it was easy to be whisked back in time and imagine the scene many years ago . |
| 27 | The clash between the end-weight and subject-before-predicate principles could have been avoided by switching from passive to active and inserting a subject such as We or This paper : |
| 28 | In order to try and give the market some confidence the government organised a temporary ‘ buy-back ’ scheme , which provided , in effect , a minimum support price for the shares ( only 2 per cent of the shares issued were in fact returned ) . |
| 29 | and then there 's me , tell me when it gets to eleven and like I had to go and get a shower and put the dinner all out and all before I left at half four . |
| 30 | A headmaster is claiming that the craze for the Teenage Mutant Hero Ninja Turtles , is encouraging aggression and promoting the belief that might is right . |