Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more terrors to come , more mysteries and secrets than he could ever know . |
| 2 | She whistled , hitching up her skirt and petticoats so she could run more easily down the tradesman 's path to the gate . |
| 3 | Point four erm sentences are made up of noun phrases and verb phrases those phrases can be composed of intransitive verbs standing alone , or transitive verbs and objects so you can have four , the structure what sounds like Florence smiled actually has a structure as on the handout in the sentence composed of a noun phrase and a verb phrase , the noun phrase contains a single noun Florence and the verb phrase contains a single verb smile or you can have something like four two , Florence teased Dougal and there the verb phrase contains the verb teased and another noun phrase containing the single noun Dougal . |
| 4 | And to prove it , we 're giving away stickers and badges so you can back him too . ’ |
| 5 | However , after being refused passage by two ferry companies , they were forced to admit their load was not radioactive and were made to remove the stickers and signs before they could sail . |
| 6 | Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables when you can . |
| 7 | The reform , which required a two-thirds majority in parliament , would allow a new government a period of 18 months to establish its programme and policies before it could be subject to a confidence motion . |
| 8 | When the Little Gidding community was set up , Nicholas Ferrar declared , ‘ Since the great things of the earth vanish and come to nought , let us set our desires and designs where they can not fail . ’ |
| 9 | Some years earlier , I had lost almost 2st ( 12.7kg ) from my heaviest weight of 10st 3lbs ( 65 kg ) , but I still had revolting hips and thighs as you will see from my ‘ before ’ photograph . |
| 10 | Father Matthew was a genial fellow and cheerfully granted Athelstan 's request , giving him vestments and vessels so he could celebrate his own Mass in one of the small chantry chapels built off the main aisle . |
| 11 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 12 | Outside the cage the photographer 's saying : ‘ When you jump , spread your arms and legs so I can see you . ’ |
| 13 | Counting the days and months until he would be twenty-one and could join Daisy and Joszef , happily settled in New York now . |
| 14 | We have looked at abilities , experience and goals as they might influence behaviour at work . |
| 15 | Its aim is to introduce people who are 50 or over to a whole new range of activities and opportunities so they can realise and put into practice their own particular talents . |
| 16 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 17 | Sciagraphy has grown as a convention used by architects and engineers because it can be used to reveal detail in forms that might otherwise be lost in orthographic linear projections . |
| 18 | I then take it on myself to swill off the blades and rollers so they wo n't put Pa off finishing the grass when he 's done with the Virgin in there . |
| 19 | A sparkling array shops , bars , refreshment stalls and restaurants are scattered right across the Park , catering to all tastes and pockets so you can take a break any time between rides , sit back and watch the magical world of Disney unfold before your very eyes . |
| 20 | She had hers done in the spring and it was weeks and weeks before she could use it . |
| 21 | What had the members seen for their entrance fees and contributions when it could be shown that in that year they received some £pound9,000 in benefit while over £pound32,000 went into the management of the union ? |
| 22 | Animals with much simpler ears and brains than us can reduce the problem further by only responding to very narrow frequency bands . |
| 23 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 24 | Although this is perhaps another example of a sales setting , it is treated separately because of its diversity and ever-increasing importance , especially in view of 1992 European Community legislation and changes as they will affect the selling function . |
| 25 | It should describe how the characters , usually non-aristocratic or less educated , express moods , emotions and actions as they would in real life . |
| 26 | I then waited until midnight in a tiny village where the local people plied me with beer and chickens until I could barely move . |
| 27 | In all this the emphasis is on the prices and quantities and , in particular , on these prices and quantities as they would emerge under equilibrium conditions . |
| 28 | They resist change because they feel threatened by it and are the ones who constantly refer to the rules and regulations before they will do anything . |
| 29 | We found the brêche , from which we knew a steep couloir dropped to the Talefre Glacier , and started abseiling from such old slings and pegs as we could find on the sidewalls . |
| 30 | That apart , the book is as encyclopaedic a work on homebuilding and homebuilts as you could hope to find , as befits the fastest growing sector of general aviation , and the one where the greatest innovation is now to be found . |