Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I go and change in the toilet and wear my mac like a dressing gown , and then hop into my sleeping bag and take it off . |
| 2 | Stressing the need ‘ to behave in a manner which is neither racist nor sexist , ’ ‘ to uphold individual rights , ’ and ‘ to cooperate and consult with the community and other agencies in pursuing our purpose ’ has not gone down well with conservative officers . |
| 3 | There was the taste of death in the kiss , but she accepted the price with the prize , and clung to the bitterness and the bliss alike , knowing them for ever inseparable now . |
| 4 | The payment request or invoices from the nominated sub-contractor will be received and checked by the builder and passed to the client 's quantity surveyor at the time of the interim valuation . |
| 5 | Similarly teams of medical advisers were brought down to William Osborne to inspect and comment on the level and location of medical equipment so that as the boat was built the right equipment was installed in the right place . |
| 6 | He was sorry he 'd forgotten to pay Betty any money last year , but could he come and stay for a while and pay her then ? |
| 7 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 8 | come and sit at the table and wait , come on , put those away |
| 9 | in our house if one of you 's in the bathroom in the bath like if Russell 's in the bath I go and sit on the toilet and talk to him and the dog 's in there as well and you ca n't move . |
| 10 | ‘ Come and sit by the fire and get warm , ’ he instructed , interrupting her thoughts . |
| 11 | Well I was n't married but I used to go in there and I used to come home er say in Winter if I come home for a w week or two , I go in there , and sit by the fire and have a yard . |
| 12 | I have done nothing but sleep too much , eat too much , and sit in the sun and bake ! ’ |
| 13 | even our grandchildren were , I mean er right from the beginning even if they only go and sit in the surgery and just watch , ju you know just go and visit |
| 14 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 15 | I said that I would come in for every match and sit in the library and deal with questions and enquiries — there was no point in simply having it supervised by a steward who might know nothing about books or history . ’ |
| 16 | It is a poor house Ellen and not clean but it is cheap and furnished after a fashion and best of all lies next to the Casa Guidi which raised my spirits . |
| 17 | Those of us who are citizens of the United Kingdom who live north of the border have benefited from my right hon. Friend 's sagacity and influence in the Cabinet and are vastly privileged by the statement that he has made today . |
| 18 | he came and asked for the duster and the polish |
| 19 | He drummed on the window with the flat of white , spectral hands — eyes turned to his left , in the direction of the glass doors , and filled with a fear and horror that paralysed Cardiff . |
| 20 | The palm branch was broken and placed on the grave and the cakes and bread distributed . |
| 21 | It was taken out of the context of the early punks and placed alongside the hammer and sickle , the IRA and PLO slogans and any other symbols which could be guaranteed to raise the hackles and the eyebrows of the BOF 's ( remember them ? ) . |
| 22 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 23 | I think the word " enjoy " used in this connection is a translation of the Latin word " fruor " and refers to the exercise and use of the right and having the full benefit of it , rather than to deriving pleasure from it … |
| 24 | Just as " every clerk 's " unanimity of opinion directs the laughter of " " every wight " " at the end of the Miller 's Tale ( 3847 – 9 ) , the text of the Reeve 's Tale brings its readers to view and laugh at the miller and his family through the clerks ' perceptions , their attitudes and their frame of reference : We may particularly note , for instance , how the incongruous " " par compaignye " " that Nicholas and Alison put in the mouth of the unfortunate John recurs in this urbane rendering of the family 's vulgar cacophany , and how the somewhat different " " melodye " " recalls the " " revel " " and the " " melodye " " that Alison and Nicholas enjoy . |
| 25 | As soon as possible , he was on his own again , moving from place to place , sleeping rough in barns , in caves , or in the open , and depending on the support and generosity of the common people for succour and sustenance , repaying them with prayer and preaching . |
| 26 | Depending on their flair and the quality of their training they will need differing degrees of support , and depending on the school and the LEA they will either get it or not . |
| 27 | To complete the idyllic farmyard scene , chickens , a mixture of varieties , strut and scratch about the driveway and the fields . |
| 28 | sh , he 's really sort of like , dead brainy and goes to the child-minder and goes to school and whatever ! |
| 29 | Sea levels have risen and fallen with the coming and going of the ice ages as they have everywhere else . |
| 30 | Particularly in 1792–3 and from 1823 onwards , the West India Committee organised and co-ordinated defence and counterattack against the abolition and emancipation campaigns . |