Example sentences of "and [prep] [det] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel . |
| 2 | Well , I said , it was about so long — hands out at just beyond shoulder width — and about this much across the wings — hands now indicating a fair wingspan of several feet — and it was grey , well , greyish . |
| 3 | One could dismiss this factor once and for all merely by saying that any aspect of conventional harmony ( triadic chords , cadences , etc. ) must be avoided . |
| 4 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 5 | it is n't necessary , well it is the same as saying it is n't true , it is n't necessary er because this will be built up over a period and it will be for er the Government in all the normal ways in the public expenditure round to decide how much goes into the passenger franchises and through that therefore into the Briti the Rail Track investment . |
| 6 | They went back down the garden and after that out to a couple of pubs where they drank a lot and Rufus had to drive back to Wyvis Hall with one eye closed on account of getting double vision . |
| 7 | As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town . |
| 8 | I am confident that what has been agreed will enable us to achieve that without spending any cash over and above that already in our normal annual budget over the next two years . ’ |
| 9 | Yet literature can only give access to the values entertained by the members of literate communities and in these only for persons able to apprehend what they read . |
| 10 | The tradition of literacy in the army goes back to the seventeenth century and the Civil War , which was fought with texts and pamphlets as much as with weapons , and beyond to the Reformation , and beyond that again to the mediaeval orders of chivalry such as the Knights Templar . |
| 11 | For instance , bereaved adults experience higher than expected levels of illness in the year following the death of their spouse , and among those most at risk of lasting psychiatric problems are people without a network of friends or relatives to whom they may turn for consolation ( Parkes and Brown , 1972 ) . |
| 12 | Books make the ideal Christmas present , and among those currently in stock are Muriel Spark 's autobiography Curriculum Vitae , in which she writes of her childhood in Edinburgh and the people and places which have influenced her work — including the original Miss Brodie ; and Alisdair Gray 's new novel Poor Things , a Frankenstein-inspired tale which has been described as his best work yet . |