Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The association agreements the EC signed with Hungary , Poland and Czechoslovakia have turned out to be disappointingly limited . |
| 2 | Since then , both East Germany and Czechoslovakia have lined up with equally convincing claims . |
| 3 | An RSPB survey shows the populations of lapwing and snipe have declined by over half , curlew by a third while ouzel numbers have crashed by 70% to just 18 pairs . |
| 4 | But in Latin America , even the crudest indicators such as per capita GNP , or gross national product ( which takes no account of wealth distribution ) show that people 's incomes have actually gone down in the last few years and their health , education and nutrition have gone down with them . |
| 5 | But George Dunbar , whose renegade 's knowledge of his countrymen and their terrain King Henry had seen fit to use where it could be most effective , on the Scottish march from which he derived his title , had counselled the waiting game , and Northumberland had come down upon his side . |
| 6 | In reality it becomes almost impossible to find this amount in the budget , and projects have to limp along on an underfunded basis or with the overseas donor financing an increasing proportion of the total costs . |
| 7 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 8 | Without being particularly conscious of where they were going , he and Cora-Beth had ended up in the big barn containing bales of straw for the loose boxes . |
| 9 | But five days after he moved in he was found by staff horribly scalded across his back and chest lying face up in the bath . |
| 10 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 11 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 12 | I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it . |
| 13 | When Auque and Normandin were released the previous November , Pat and Sheila had spoken out about their frustration on television . |
| 14 | Roos has since died and Tsurumaki has gone out of business . |
| 15 | During the work with the project , teachers and researchers attempted to find out about the views held by every child in the class . |
| 16 | Letters and calls have flooded in from health centres and individual women , queries and support from MPs urged on by anxious constituents and reports that all around the country women are meeting and organising . |
| 17 | In Europe many children have visited another country before their tenth birthday , and generations have grown up with the expectation of travel . |
| 18 | She opened the street door with just the slightest qualm , remembering the night Foucard and Denis had stepped out of its darkness . |
| 19 | Soon a scrum developed which bore a greater resemblance to that other American game than to the former game of Redcoat rounders being played below , and Denis had to pile in beside his uncle to the great detriment of his new coat and the loss of one trilby . |
| 20 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 21 | Unemployment peaked at over two per cent in 1967 , then fell off , and Germany continued to absorb up to two million ‘ guest ’ workers from Turkey , Yugoslavia and elsewhere . |
| 22 | Joanna rushed off and Sophie stood looking down at the telephone . |
| 23 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 24 | There are towns and cities along our route which boast the best ale houses in the land , and whilst we can not linger we can , I am sure , find the time to slake a thirst or two that the ice and snow have worked up in us . |
| 25 | PASSION AT THE POOLSIDE : Fergie and Johnny enjoy getting down to some serious canoodling as the sun beats mercilessly on the naked pate of the whizzkid from Texas |
| 26 | Many forms had days when lessons finished at midday , and study had to go on at home . |
| 27 | Nooty and Sacco had climbed out along Jekub 's neck , and were sitting there waving cheerfully . |
| 28 | National expenditure is the actual amount of money spent on goods and services over a given period of time , whereas aggregate demand is the total value that households , firms , the government and foreigners plan to spend out of their respective incomes over that time period : in other words , it is the total amount they are willing and able to spend . |
| 29 | Adam stared , struggling to get back to his feet ; and confusion seemed to burn up in his face . |
| 30 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |