Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was pursued and caught , and would appear at Southend Magistrates ' Court charged with taking and driving away a Jaguar car without the owner 's consent from the Foulness road on Saturday afternoon . |
| 32 | In 1798 Caballero , ‘ the enemy of enlightenment ’ , swept the intellectuals and ‘ Jansenists ’ from office and instilled anew a fear of France and progress in the court . |
| 33 | The payer must send the payment in a properly stamped envelope , enclosing the plaint note or summons ( or otherwise clearly identifying the plaint number ) and enclosing also a self addressed envelope so the court can return a receipt with the plaint note or summons ( if sent ) . |
| 34 | And cut quite a bit off the top |
| 35 | Plants such as shepherd 's needles , pheasant 's eye , corn gromwell , corn cockle and mousetail flourish in farmland that is lightly tilled and cut once a year . |
| 36 | The Angels later paired and spawned about a year later . |
| 37 | It is administered entirely by the Bar Council and meets once a month ( except August ) . |
| 38 | He is current chairman of Cleveland Art Society , which has around 100 members and meets once a week at Middlesbrough Art Gallery . |
| 39 | The 40-member National People 's Assembly , " the supreme organ of the state " , is elected for a five-year term and meets twice a year . |
| 40 | One arrived in the Shetlands two or three years ago and caused quite a stir . ’ |
| 41 | " In Salvation Army meetings Africans do jump around and dance quite a bit . " |
| 42 | He was dropping one of his tools and let forth a number of obscenities . |
| 43 | Bob caught her by the shoulder and used his own to wipe her face , while John turned on the woman and let loose a volley of dismissive French . |
| 44 | We both stay fit by playing squash and swimming twice a week . |
| 45 | It includes a commitment to create five new national parks by 1996 , and to set aside a total of 12 per cent of the country 's territory as " protected areas " for wildlife . |
| 46 | In the seventy fifth minute , Swayles repeated his elbow in Aries ' face , and received only a booking this time . |
| 47 | Alan Clayson 's attempt to paint a clearer picture is severely hampered by Harrison 's refusal to co-operate , thus leaving Clayson to read every press clipping , interview anyone who ever knew him , and cobble together a book out of it . |
| 48 | Alan Clayson 's attempt to paint a clearer picture is severely hampered by Harrison 's refusal to co-operate , thus leaving Clayson to read every press clipping , interview anyone who ever knew him , and cobble together a book out of it . |
| 49 | He would no more have thought of behaving as Harold Macmillan did in 1962 , and dismissing nearly a half of them as though they were junior executives in an ailing company , than it would have occurred to him to divorce his wife and marry one of his walking companions . |
| 50 | So , I wonder whether er , as ari er , a matter arising out of this , erm er , the director of education could , erm er , perhaps address this issue and put forward a paper to the next education committee . |
| 51 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 52 | The League 's leader , Umberto Bossi , announced on Nov. 27 that with his party now occupying 14 seats on the 50-seat city council — one more than any other party — he intended to appoint a mayor and put together a coalition adminstration . |
| 53 | He was caught on the sciatic nerve and suffered only a dead-leg and an abrasion . |
| 54 | Much to our confusion , the entire boat crew is Polish and speak scarcely a word of English . |
| 55 | The result is very different from the ideas expressed in chapter 6 , where it was suggested that one of the many results of the rise of material culture as a mode of cultural form was its ability to multiply and keep apart a plethora of hierarchies and diverse spheres . |
| 56 | William Thomson , later Lord Kelvin , was elected to the chair of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow in 1846 at the age of twenty-two , and organized there a physics laboratory for students . |
| 57 | Rhoda would open the tin and foil once a week or at least once a fortnight before Christmas to soak the cloth with more bourbon before resealing it . |
| 58 | Russell gulped another mouthful from his pint of beer and ripped open a bag of crisps . |
| 59 | It is usually a facultative characteristic and affects only a proportion of the worm population . |
| 60 | She took her time over it , waiting until she was sure no one wanted to use the bathroom , and going downstairs a couple of times for drinks and stories with Sylvia . |