Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 2 | Languages : Italian ; German , Ladin , French and Catalan spoken in some regions . |
| 3 | He kept the man 's airway clear and blood circulating until the plane landed and an ambulance took him to hospital . |
| 4 | The Japanese company Nihon Medi-Physics , a joint venture between Sumitomo and Hoffman-La Roche , is excluded from the current deal but existing commercial and manufacturing links with Medi-Physics will continue . |
| 5 | Discussions with civic leaders in Toronto , Pittsburg and Cleveland would hopefully lead to commercial and trade links with those cities , he said . |
| 6 | For Jack , it was a joy to watch her walk ; her step was light and happiness shone from her . |
| 7 | Surprisingly it can happen in retail chains when the strategy has gone badly wrong and trouble occurs on all fronts at the same time . |
| 8 | Although the currency was strong ( despite a revaluation in 1969 ) and the budget in surplus , wage demands were also high and inflation rose from 2 per cent in 1969 to over 5 per cent in 1972 . |
| 9 | In the Acts of Thomas , there is the following quotation : ‘ Twin brother of Christ , apostle of the Most High and fellow initiate into the hidden word of Christ , who dost receive his secret sayings … ’ |
| 10 | With Selkirk and Glasgow High-Kelvinside also losing it was a good day for the Goldenacre men and with spirit high and confidence spreading through the team , they look more than capable of winning another couple of games to reach safer waters . |
| 11 | But you have to hold it down like that , and not let it burst free and flop trembling onto the table . ’ |
| 12 | Lukic made a couple of brave and decisve dives to feet ( I do n't think he 'd have done that last season ) |
| 13 | The Faverolles factory responded to this challenge and continued to break production records , while played their part with large increases in muesli , crunchy and pillow tonnages for the continental market . |
| 14 | An analysis of Indian administrators ( Wood 1976 ) shows how the liberal democratic ideal of the disinterested administrator carrying out the orders of his political masters , left him , in independent India , with relatively low-status and low-income compared to those in commerce or business . |
| 15 | The British and Japanese went for much more cautious moves in a deregulatory direction . |
| 16 | ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania . |
| 17 | There was cream and jam smeared on her cheek . |
| 18 | By early 1991 the cavernous offices of the federal government in New Belgrade were empty and grass grew on the steps . |
| 19 | A desk with ‘ Reception ’ in French , German and Arabic loomed on her left . |
| 20 | The titles of such degrees bear this out : headings such as physics , geography , sociology , English and history refer to the well-established and familiar ‘ bodies of knowledge ’ discussed in Chapter 2 , which can constitute an ‘ internal ’ rationale for the course of study without any necessity to refer outside or beyond to the world of work . |
| 21 | It is n't so painful and hair removed from the roots in this area becomes very discouraged . |
| 22 | Add the oil and ginger and stir fry for 10 seconds . |
| 23 | The separation or split between individual and society started in the last century . |
| 24 | A discontinuity of both content and approach existed between selective school mathematics and some currents within university mathematics , especially pure mathematics . [ … ] |
| 25 | We might argue , as does Professor Marie Jahoda — a founding mother of social research on the experience of unemployment — that the social contacts , collective purposes , time-structure and status provided by employment are important factors in anchoring people to the real world . |
| 26 | Opening postponed and Act obtained for a branch from Chirbury to Minsterley to join with the Welshpool line , not constructed . |
| 27 | The day was growing warm and Fen peeled off his sweater . |
| 28 | The began to see to each other , I believe winter has gone , some of the days were quite warm and Pink started to pressured ? |
| 29 | … American and European societies became increasingly interdependent , by which I mean that complex urban-industrial societies involved individuals in unprecedentedly complex patterns of relations extending beyond personal and community ties to distant bonds no less real because of their obscurity . … |
| 30 | In the revolutionary moment in which republicanism and social rights were actively proclaimed , the concept of man , rational , specifically male and white emerged in opposition to the correspondingly redefined ideas about woman , nature and Europe 's cultural others . |