Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you have n't gone up to a bar and asked for a pils have you ? |
| 2 | The data stored and manipulated within a GIS are of two specific kinds . |
| 3 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 4 | It came to Noreen 's rescue when she was just fifteen , pregnant and living in a Children 's Home with little hope of anywhere else to go . |
| 5 | Clients also receive a regular newsletter and benefit from a securities management service . |
| 6 | He was chased and bitten by a police dog and then arrested for being drunk and disorderly after he became abusive . |
| 7 | So oft we went , leaving Pop at ‘ Prospect Lodge ’ in Simla ( a holiday home for missionaries ) until he was asked to go down to Poona and look after a soldiers ' club . |
| 8 | At the CeBit show , the two companies demonstrated a personal computer running Microsoft Corp Windows , and equipped with a communications interface board jointly developed by Ericsson and Intel . |
| 9 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |
| 10 | Her programme included electoral reform , housing allocation according to need and based on a points system , the extension of the Race Relations Act to Northern Ireland , and the provision of employment through state investment . |
| 11 | He then gained a job as a clerk in the City , and served as a signals lance corporal in the Territorial Army . |
| 12 | You did n't have to be highly professional and experienced like a personnel manager has to be today . |
| 13 | He also protested at the general level of unemployment in the country and issued specific demands for the reinstatement of the standing of the Panamanian security forces which had been largely disarmed and reduced to a police force by the US-backed civilian government . |
| 14 | ‘ A modest house with a small garden where the grass looks as though it has been cut with nail-scissors and weeded with a forceps ; a dolls ’ house , with nothing out of place , everything polished and dusted . ’ |
| 15 | A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday . |
| 16 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 17 | Harbury rebelled and went to a Women 's Word press reception instead . |
| 18 | He was arrested at 6 a.m. and detained at a police station until his interview began after noon . |
| 19 | Four to follow in this year 's World Series RICK REUSCHEL ( Giants ) Age : 40 Position : Starting pitcher ( right-handed ) At 240lb and proportioned like a darts player , ‘ Big Daddy ’ is proof that you do n't need to be a super-athlete to succeed . |
| 20 | On Oct. 19 the United Kingdom and US embassies in Ankara investigated allegations by a group of Christian evangelists who claimed that they had been blindfolded and tortured at a police station in Ankara . |
| 21 | This is filled with Hex-nodes , tiny clay tubes , and oxygenated by a venturi system attached to the pump which injects air into the compartment . |
| 22 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 23 | The defendant , who was driving his car in Jermyn Street , was arrested after a roadside breath test proved positive and taken to a police station , where he provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 24 | They nurture organic matter , protect sea lands against erosion , provide habitat and food for marine life , and serve as a cattle forage crop . |
| 25 | She was stripped naked and beaten with a cattle prod before being thrown into a cell full of excrement . |
| 26 | What he got was rather different — Cooper was cut over both his eyes and plodded to a points decision before being roundly booed . |