Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pants and pouts and poses and scweams . |
| 2 | Clearly this artist was going to keep me fully entertained as she peered alternately at me and my picture , producing a range of squints , pouts and grimaces that Rowan Atkinson might envy . |
| 3 | Mistress Southwell was a Roman Catholic and with several others sought to surround the events of the Queen Elizabeth 's last illness and death with ill-omens and to suggest that she had not died in a state of grace ’ . |
| 4 | These opportunities have risks and costs as well as gains . |
| 5 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 6 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 7 | Still , it 's not all bad so join THE LYRIC ROUND … 20 lyrics culled from 20 songs and see if you can name those tunes ! |
| 8 | Still , it 's not all bad so join THE LYRIC ROUND … 20 lyrics culled from 20 songs and see if you can name those tunes ! |
| 9 | Mothers leave older tumblers to enjoy group songs and rhymes before they start working on the equipment . |
| 10 | You can buy sweetened whole chestnuts and purés as well as fresh chestnuts . |
| 11 | I put my hands over my ears and prayed that the ringing would stop . |
| 12 | Rachel had always thought that dodgems were inappropriately named , and that day was no exception , for as they cruised round there were many more bumps than dodges , accompanied by screams and shrieks as the guitars throbbed louder than ever and a siren wailed above them , |
| 13 | In fact , most species of frogs and toads that lay their eggs in areas exposed to direct sunlight produce black eggs , whereas those species whose eggs develop in concealed places usually lay white eggs . |
| 14 | The rapid development of the spadefoot tadpole is a feature shared by other frogs and toads that occupy temporary ponds , such as the European natterjack toad . |
| 15 | It is characteristic of frogs and toads that live in more stable or predictable environments . |
| 16 | The centre piece of the act is the onymous toad , unique among the frogs and toads because it has lost the horny pads ( the so-called nuptial pads ) that grow on the male 's hands during the breeding season and because it mates on dry land rather than in water . |
| 17 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ replied the nurses , ‘ you 're not even three fingers dilated , ’ until one of them , a girl with a lot of red hair , opened Wendy 's legs and looked and screeched , ‘ But I can see the head ! |
| 18 | Where there had been one figure faintly outlined in the frame of the staging there were now two — one large , obviously Jotan , and one much smaller , a child Alexei thought until he saw the muscular build and shortened legs and realised that Jotan had caught a dwarf . |
| 19 | Dorma have carefully endeavoured to provide a discriminating range of duvet covers and bedwear that will reflect every mood and enhance every possible bedroom style . |
| 20 | We inspect the drains via three manhole covers and establish that the oil is coming from a certain area in which there are a number of cam-cutting machines . |
| 21 | A further eight per cent of pupils also appeared to make an assumption about the relationships between cubes and hand spans and concluded that Robert was not taller than Dean . |
| 22 | Monzer al-Kassar and Rifat Assad were two of the names that cropped up most frequently in the cascade of raw intelligence from informants and intercepts that he was analysing for NARCOG and back-channelling to Donleavy . |
| 23 | Then they 'd come bleating to my father and their husbands and complain that Addy was autocratic and impossible , and the men would say , " Why ca n't you leave her alone ? " |
| 24 | And Andrew only uses pesticides and herbicides when there 's no alternative.Even then he uses minimum concentrations of chemical to avoid residues on the fruit or in the soil : |
| 25 | Blake talks of fairness to other manufacturers and observes that a discharge of ten will give McDonald 's ‘ an unfair advantage ’ . |
| 26 | Criticizing the " neglect and relaxation in political construction " , Gen. Yang Baibing , director of the PLA general political department ( and younger half-brother of Yang Shangkun ) , said : " Strengthening the firm political stand of cadres and fighters and guaranteeing that the rifles are really held by politically reliable people are matters of top importance " for ensuring the Army 's response to the party 's commands in future " political storms " . |
| 27 | Albert was joking with the kids and grinning when he heard one of the porters talking , leaning on his luggage-trolley and speaking loudly . |
| 28 | After a full term of playing to the changes I would like to applaud the lawmakers and suggest that the game may benefit by adopting some , if not all , in the senior game . |
| 29 | In practice , the authorities responsible for broadcasting — the governors of the BBC and the members of the IBA — oversee their respective organizations and ensure that certain statutory obligations are met . |
| 30 | An article in the Caring for People newsletter ( DoH , 1992 ) responded to the questions raised by participating districts and confirmed that the care programme approach applies to all people accepted by specialist psychiatric services . |