Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 2 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when Bristol equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 3 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when City equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 4 | Randle and Pottle stated in their book that they were aware of the severe sentences that they might face , but ‘ could , however , offset the disaster to some degree by writing up the story ; this would help to defray the legal costs and provide some minimal support ’ for one of their families . |
| 5 | Guglielmo and Ferrando reappear without their disguises , and the girls become aware that they have been tricked . |
| 6 | Later , when it was time for the evening meal , she entered the dining-room to find Silas and Matt seated at their corner table . |
| 7 | The car purred away and Kelly relaxed in his seat . |
| 8 | The rough elder laden hedgerows rushing past , six feet each side of his face , and Sheila clinging to his back like a koala bear clinging to its Mother . |
| 9 | Art , Wimsatt and Brooks wrote in their joint history of literary criticism ( 1957 : 743 ) , ‘ ought to have the concreteness which comes from recognizing reality and including it ’ . |
| 10 | First Floss and Tibbs retired to their tent to dispel this foretaste of the middle-aged grossness that awaited them in the exercise of their healthy young bodies . |
| 11 | BELVILLE enters and PAMELA flies into his arms . ] |
| 12 | We also enclosed details of the particular System and Finder installed on our Macintosh together with a LaserWriter Plus sample and an approximate timing for the page to print on that device . |
| 13 | Herzberg , Mausner and Snyderman observe in their study of The Motivation to Work that the provision of better working conditions has the effect of reducing dissatisfaction but not the effect of producing satisfaction . |
| 14 | Then both the woman and Edouard fell to their knees . |
| 15 | Louise gave an exclamation of displeasure , and Edouard rose to his feet , Grégoire remained absolutely still , looking down at the smashed cup . |
| 16 | And familiar Edward Bear lay on her pillow and Victoria slept on her stomach in her cot six feet away , behind white painted bars . |
| 17 | Even though caring meant postponing many of the plans Mary and Jim had for their retirement , when her father died , Mary expressed satisfaction about the time spent caring for him . |
| 18 | He suddenly darted out from behind a metal ladder and Whitlock aimed at his legs . |
| 19 | And Nicholls returned to his family home in Ireland . |
| 20 | Onward travel is via Belgium and Germany to arrive at our centre around lunch time the following day . |
| 21 | The Neue Sachlichkeit ( ‘ New Objectivity ’ ) movement in Switzerland and Germany included among its dogmas the belief that ‘ the world is beautiful . ’ |
| 22 | This caused an angry confrontation and Minton apologised for his deceit . |
| 23 | The surge did n't last too long and Newton slid in his first goal seven minutes later and grabbed his second five minutes from time when he finished off a sweeping , decisive move involving Dennis Wise and Stuart . |
| 24 | The percussive nature of some of the playing and ‘ rat-at-tat ’ rhythms sometimes suggest Prokofiev ( the pianos take a fair bashing ) , and at various points Messaien , Villa-Lobos , and Ligeti came into my mind . |
| 25 | FRIDAY PASSED AND Saturday arrived with its Monday feeling . |
| 26 | And this , ’ he pulled Lazlo 's map from his pocket and flung it across the table , ‘ The great detective left this behind when he and Rex fled from his office last night . |
| 27 | The King was on a royal throne near the entrance , and the two Bishops of Durham and Ely stood at his feet A good omen had encouraged Hugh for just as he reached the chapel steps he heard the choir in full voice chanting the words " Hail renowned bishop of Christ " . |
| 28 | The talk quickly became too technical for Sabine to follow , and Marie-Christine laughed at her bemused expression . |
| 29 | It seemed a daft notion as we hurtled west along the motorway from Nice with Porsches and Ferraris whistling past our ears . |
| 30 | Such an explanation , quite apart from being completely wrong , is extraordinary in the light of the fact that both Marx and Engels warn throughout their work that biological models are inappropriate to human societies . |