Example sentences of "and [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night he took a midnight train to London , searched for her all day , and had his first demanding quarrel with her in a Chinese restaurant at five o'clock in the afternoon , blue-jowled with fear and tiredness , and smelling of the stale smells of travellers . |
| 2 | Because we boys used to like the windbound lying and talking and in the galley and smelling of the coming from the galley , all the saucepans and things like that . |
| 3 | The helpful thread of Ariadne ; the artistic weavings of Arachne ; the spinning and snipping of the three Fates . |
| 4 | Parents , who have no right to prevent an assessment , must be informed of the LEA 's proposal to assess the child , given the name of an officer of the LEA from whom further advice may be obtained , and notified of the right to make representations ( orally or in writing ) within a minimum period of 29 days from service of notice by the LEA . |
| 5 | The crypt was damp and smelled of the occupation of the past six nights . |
| 6 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 7 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 8 | Coun Pearson called for a return to the original idea of a chapel of remembrance , where people could sit quietly and think of the ones they have lost . |
| 9 | This usually means conspicuous consumption in one or all of its varied forms — the size of the house , the size , age and make of the car , the possession of other consumer durables , the quality of furnishings , and so on . |
| 10 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 11 | Shakespeare is the most widely known and read of the classical playwrights and it is for this reason that a piece from one of his plays is nearly always obligatory at a drama school audition . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems he chanced to be staying in Vienna also , and read of the disappearance in the local paper . |
| 13 | She looked in the glass-fronted noticeboards and read of the societies that would be re-forming when term started , and the new committees and the sports arrangements and the practice times , and the appeals for people to join this group and that club . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 15 | It was found that although a four-week tutorial programme had been prepared , the children in the mainstream school were far more receptive and accepting of the situation and could not see any reason for delaying the child 's integration . |
| 16 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 17 | Visualise the scene , feel yourself in the chair , sense the cat 's soft fur , hear the hissing and crackling of the fire , smell the woodsmoke , taste the wine … . |
| 18 | The room had fallen deathly silent except for Cranston 's abrupt questions , the equally abrupt answers and the snapping and crackling of the logs in the fire . |
| 19 | The bed was low but wide , and made of the same pale wood . |
| 20 | In this , we find sections on call to worship ; confession ; praise ; reading of scripture and preaching of the word ; response to the word ; communion ; blessing . |
| 21 | Dogmatics thus has a critical function in relation to the present witness and preaching of the church , recalling it to its basis and assisting it to uncover and hear what it is called to say today . |
| 22 | Closely associated with the proclamation and preaching of the Word was scriptural hymnody , in the form of metrical psalms . |
| 23 | Chaired by the head of English , and consisting of the librarian and heads of all departments or their representatives , its terms of reference were to make recommendations to the head on the best ways to spend the money , to formulate a project proposal , and to oversee all subsequent matters of library policy . |
| 24 | When the day for her departure arrived nobody could be heard for the weeping and wailing of the girls . |
| 25 | Yes — he will obviously see and know of the good points , but it is his job to find the faults and problems . |
| 26 | more or less with what 's a good will and who you have to have in mind and disposing of the estate and being tax effective so that that . |
| 27 | Peter set up Nottinghamshire 's library in the winter of 1978–79 with the assistance of then chairman Dick Milnes : ‘ I spent the winter filling in gaps in the collection and disposing of the duplicates . |
| 28 | decommissioning our facilities and disposing of the radioactive waste cost-effectively , consistent with meeting stringent safety and environmental requirements . |
| 29 | decommissioning our radioactive facilities and disposing of the waste cost-effectively , while meeting stringent safety and environmental requirements , as well as managing a small number of other government nuclear programmes which remain ; |
| 30 | In 1988 the average cost of collecting and disposing of the rubbish from an American household was about $90 — against its spending of $120 on newspapers or $450 on telephone service . |