Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light was behind him and Melanie could not see his face ; besides– Finn walked before her up the stairs . |
| 2 | Thankfully , they were muzzled and Melanie could safely break up the fight . |
| 3 | The Cray Communications Ltd arm of Cray Electronics Holdings Plc , and its Cray Communications Inc arm in Annapolis , Maryland have signed a $10m three-year OEM agreement with Coral Network Corp , Westborough , Massachusetts under which Cray will resell the Coral Backbone Xpress 1000 and 2000 fault-tolerant internetworking systems for collapsed , campus and corporate backbone applications through its worldwide distribution channels under Cray 's own brand name starting on June 1 ; privately-held Coral and Cray will also conduct joint development on the BX architecture to provide additional functionality , such as the addition of wide area network interfaces and support for speech ; the Backbone Xpress Series supports Ethernet , Token Ring , FDDI , T1 , E1 and V35 network interfaces ; and TCP/IP , Novell Inc IPX , AppleTalk II , DECnet IV , RIP , OSPF , EGP , BGP , Frame Relay and PPP protocols , and is also designed to support future high-bandwidth network interfaces , such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode . |
| 4 | Advanced Computer Research — ACRI — and Cray will also collaborate to convert and optimise applications codes on both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
| 5 | England and Taylor can now look ahead to a profitable start to the New Year , with the visit of the tiny Italian principality , then the return against Turkey before the Wembley showdown against Holland in April . |
| 6 | You can select Holmes destination by clicking on the target and Holmes will hastily travel there by cab ( the horse drawn type , of course ! ) |
| 7 | All around her were the smiling faces so lacking at Oreste 's birth , for Ellen and William could not match the pride of Ferdinando nor the ecstasy of Pen , and she felt loved and treasured not pitifully alone and bereft . |
| 8 | Finding out the truth about Jasper and Bienvida might finally militate against Cecilia Darne 's view that a child should always be able to find a home with its parents . |
| 9 | Lennie knew about George 's craving for freedom and often threatened to leave , but George felt obliged to look after Lennie as Lennie could not fend for himself in a cave and Lennie could not cope with going to jail or a home to be treated like an animal . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that Penda 's political power was in eclipse at the time and that Eowa was the dominant ruler among the Mercians as a subject king of the northern Angles from the mid-630s until his death , possibly in Oswald 's army , in the battle at Maserfelth , but there is no reason why Penda and Eowa should not have been ruling jointly , with Eowa as king possibly of the northern Mercians and Penda as king of the southern . |
| 11 | The more immediate problem , however , was which of the two Boards ( trade or education ) should have overall authority for the juvenile side of the exchanges and Churchill may well have sensed that a controversy was brewing . |
| 12 | But Neptune and Uranus may well create rather more chaos than anything else so you must be careful with your spending , and anything but trusting of other people 's interference : in fact less than trusting with anything to do with borrowing or lending . |
| 13 | Proven strikers are few and far between and Ferguson can not afford to gamble on potential . |
| 14 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 15 | I think that , you know George would n't mind er , and Maria would n't mind , maybe it 's Martin trying to find for for our Martin . |
| 16 | Now Florian adopted his spoilt-rotten superstar voice , and Maria could n't help smiling sardonically , recognising the onset of one of his boisterous moods . |
| 17 | Their passion precluded tenderness , their lovemaking nearly fighting , and Maria could almost believe that that was really what it was , else how could Luke continue to deny her and himself like this ? |
| 18 | McLaren would be charming , interesting and warm-hearted ; Branson would momentarily drop his guard , and McLaren would immediately try to exploit it . |
| 19 | It is in the battle scenes that the new film differs most from Olivier 's prototype , and Branagh can fairly claim to have stripped the veneer of jingoism from the play , by showing war in its true horror . |
| 20 | Darren is two foot six of crew-cut aggro , and Jan wo n't hear a word against him . |
| 21 | His hair was the one major battle that Jazz had failed to win with his parents ; Jazz wanted to cut it , but uncut hair was a dogma of the Sikh religion and Jazz could n't win . |
| 22 | Raymond — well , Raymond ! — and Bernard would n't know how . |
| 23 | They all wore caps and goggles and black trunks and Nutty could n't tell who was who . |
| 24 | Some of their happiest hours together were spent driving , or looking at cars , or simply in the huge garages at St-Cloud , where Grégoire would contentedly remove wheels , and then replace them , and Edouard would contentedly watch him . |
| 25 | ‘ They do n't show it when they are hurt or tired and Gary could n't believe how little Biggs had got left . ’ |
| 26 | In that case , it 's difficult to see how Rocky and Strach could both play without re-organizing the team . |
| 27 | He jerked her back to face him and Isabel could n't repress a sharp cry of fear at the violence in his eyes . |
| 28 | And Rosie , Susan , Heather , Katie , Clara and Isabel could not resist her either ; they let her join them , weakly , unable to refuse such primitive intention . |
| 29 | It is generally agreed that Haydn was the father of the string quartet , and he set the highest standards : the quartets of Beethoven and Schubert could hardly have been written without his brilliant examples of how it should be done . |
| 30 | Isabella and Mortimer could scarcely hope to survive long in power : neither had a claim to the throne but ruled in the name of Edward III ; their authority was thus precarious and , given that Edward was in the Plantagenet mould , destined to early extinction . |