Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a stray plank , and ropes thrown over by those inside , they scrambled over a 12ft wall into the embassy grounds . |
| 2 | This is a novel of talk and opinions got out of books , and at one stage Dostoevsky proposed ‘ NB . |
| 3 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 4 | Formulation of the plan seems to be the result of a complex but highly structured process of consultations and meetings carried out over a six month period , and culminating in the ratification of the plan by the full Politburo . |
| 5 | Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith . |
| 6 | Matches and trophies carried on after the outbreak of war in August 1914 , although the Autumn Meeting in October was almost cancelled . |
| 7 | It is derived entirely from the general meaning of car , together with the semantic properties of the context ( remember that general knowledge concerning cars and operations carried out on them is , on the view of meaning adopted in this book , embedded in the meanings of car , wash , polish , etc . ) . |
| 8 | At the commencement of the conversions the vehicles were lifted , and all parts of the underframes and bogies brought back to nominal new as for the standard LMSR coach . |
| 9 | A Commission of Inquiry into Peat and Peatlands set up by Plantlife , a plant conservation trust , has submitted its report to the House of Lords . |
| 10 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 11 | I could just make out Tobermory , looking like an Anne Redpath painting , cubes of white and blue and primrose and Venetian red , the houses and shops strung out along the bay , tiny in the distance . |
| 12 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 13 | Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 14 | As long as Germany 's long-term interest rates sank and currencies dropped out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) like ripe fruit , the deficit could be ignored . |
| 15 | The time of Sigmar sees the Orcs and Goblins driven out of the lands west of the Worlds Edge Mountains . |
| 16 | It had been a long day — the children safely delivered to Grandma , the freezer full of food ( for a husband to cope on his own ) , leotards and tights packed along with all the other paraphernalia needed for a Medau display . |
| 17 | The battle between graziers and agriculturists continued up to modern times , but in less dramatic wrangles between village councils , which preferred cultivators , and the larger owners who favoured the more reliable rents of the cattle and sheep men . |
| 18 | Chatmeister Terry Wogan exemplifies the Seventies penchant for shirts and ties made out of the same floral tablecloth . |
| 19 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 20 | Back in the days of bare-knuckle bouts the referee scratched a line in the dirt and fighters shaped up to each other by ‘ toeing ’ this line . |
| 21 | Appropriately , this castle was the setting for his last exhibition , early this year , of the fabulous ‘ Winter images ’ that he had recently devoted his energies to — tableaus of men and animals created out of ice and snow . |
| 22 | The Christmas tree decorated only with silver stars cut out and bows made out of paper rope , you cut the paper rope and just tie up the bows . |
| 23 | Erm in terms of Community budget so this Environment Committee and Conservatives gone down to below sort of seventy two million so we are not actually getting any sort of . |
| 24 | And butchers next door where you know where shoe shop is on street , well grocers were there on that corner and th when we come here there were hams and bacons hung up outside all night . |
| 25 | He dressed the same as all other Vietnamese : a drab tunic suit and sandals made out of old lorry tyres . |
| 26 | According to Kang and Wilson , the best results are achieved if leguminous species are used to create the hedge , and trials carried out in Nigeria have shown that the most promising species are Leucaena leucocephala and Gliricidia sepium which will grow successfully even on degraded land . |
| 27 | The pilot stage was concluded early in 1988 and evaluations carried out by the Centre of Applied Research in education ( CARE ) at the University of Essex , indicated , in general terms , that the project justified further development in interactive video resources . |
| 28 | ‘ It seems certain that even the small change in the balance of power between professionals and parents brought about by the Act have yet to be realized in a number of Authorities ’ ( Goacher et al . |
| 29 | I believe these checks and balances built up over many years are essential to the maintenance of true democracy in this country and I commend to Your Lordships Amendments five , eight and eleven for those reasons . |
| 30 | And would the paper , edited by the man who had the crotches and armpits cut out of his suits by Pamela Bordes , be featuring Mr Bell at all ? |