Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BARNEY and Ben became part of the family on our second day in the sleepy little fishing hamlet called Es Calo . |
| 2 | And Ben takes care of the action . |
| 3 | The private combat between Modi and Beatrice took place against the background of nightly air-raids , appalling casualties and wartime shortages . |
| 4 | As night fell , and Weaver did not return to the flat he was sharing , Bodie and Doyle ceased surveillance on the eighth floor and drove the short distance to the house where Liz Spalding was standing guard over the Stone family . |
| 5 | Harold then heard of the landing of William of Normandy and had to force march a weary army to Hastings where he was defeated and William became King of England . |
| 6 | There were interruptions : Oliver coming to ask what Ruby Dobby had been up to , and Shildon asking Rain for the latest news about the murder . |
| 7 | LOVING LOOK : Torvill and Dean see eye to eye in their act |
| 8 | However , it was made clear that Cuba would not be admitted into the San José Pact , whereby Mexico and Venezuela sold oil on favourable rates to central American and some Caribbean states . |
| 9 | On Aug. 27-29 ministers from all OPEC member states except Iraq and Libya agreed in talks held in Vienna , the Austrian capital , to suspend production ceilings and to permit Saudi Arabia , the UAE and Venezuela to increase output by a total of 3,000,000 bpd . |
| 10 | He leaned closer and Newman detected evidence of many pints of beer on his breath . |
| 11 | Branson and McLaren stood side by side on the upper deck , incongruous partners in crime , the contrast almost comical — McLaren in drainpipes , Branson with shoulder-length hair tumbling over a multi-coloured sweater of Hobbit-like cosiness . |
| 12 | The six-furlong pole approached and Kelly heard Shine On moving closer to her . |
| 13 | Jack and Alison stood side by side against the door , which was closed . |
| 14 | There was a quiet wedding , which the children did not attend , and Pamela became part of their household . |
| 15 | As major platforms such as CD-I and CDTV find success in consumer markets , the widespread use of the technologies for home education , self-improvement and popular reference may well have a push-through effect into the schools . |
| 16 | The room had lino on the floor and a plastic three-piece suite gathered round a chipped tile fireplace all covered in dust , but through the door into the kitchen Hoomey could see a more homely scene , with Stalin and Gary watching football on a television set that sat on top of a refrigerator beside the sink . |
| 17 | The man sat down at the table and Marcus put water in the kettle . |
| 18 | BANYAN , ARTISOFT AND NCR COME TOP IN BUTLER BLOOR NETWORKING REPORT |
| 19 | The loyalty of the nobles , as indeed of the people generally , had already been tested by the humiliating treaty of Northampton in 1328 , by which Mortimer and Isabella bought peace with Scotland at such a price as to recall the sickening defeat at Bannockburn fourteen years before . |
| 20 | Both Poland and Germany took delight in giving hurt and discomfort to no great purpose . |
| 21 | Recent decisions in Japan and Germany permitting deployment of their armed forces outside their national territories appear to support the realist view that , in the conduct of global politics , economic status must be backed by military capacity . |
| 22 | ‘ The intellectual and rational conception of life has given way to a more creative interpretation ’ , wrote the British Surrealist Eileen Agar in 1931 , ‘ and artistic life is under the sway of womb-magic ’ ; and Agar give expression to this ‘ womb-magic ’ in the foetal and embryonic forms which play a central part in paintings such as ‘ Family Trio ’ or ‘ The Autobiography of an Embryo ’ where fluid shapes float across the picture plane to be captured in a net of geometric planes . |
| 23 | The huge costs of model development and the increasingly competitive environment for luxury cars forced both Jaguar , privatised in 1984 , and Saab to seek collaboration with other companies during 1989 . |
| 24 | ICL AND HOSKYNS BEAT COMPETITION FOR DSS CONTRACT |
| 25 | The Spanish government , keen to maintain Spain 's position as a major producer of small cars , made various agreements with Peugeot , Citroen and Renault to guarantee continuation of existing production capacity and sold loss-making state-owned Seat , the only Spanish-owned car company , to Volkswagen . |
| 26 | With this re-alignment , Cheshunt , Barnet , Southend and Watford became part of the London District , with Chelmsford in Essex and the rest of Hertfordshire remaining within the District . |
| 27 | In October 1970 , screenwriter Goodman and Dustin started research on the character in New York by going to a couple of universities to observe the behaviour of certain professors , presumably threatening the eggheads with violence to see how they would react . |
| 28 | The UN announced on Oct. 12 that the number of refugees from Iraq and Kuwait awaiting repatriation in Jordan had fallen to 700 , from some 43,000 at the start of the month . |
| 29 | We both laugh and Marie takes hold of my arm again . |
| 30 | Gazzer followed him and Marie lost sight of both of them . |