Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark . |
| 2 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 3 | One young magistrate commented : ‘ An animal is stolen , killed , and consumed by half a dozen people in a single night — by morning not a vestige of the animal is to be found . ’ |
| 4 | Benjamin drew a distinction between storytelling , which he saw as , in its purest form , an oral-aural transaction between a narrator and an audience physically present to each other , and the novel , which is produced in one place by a solitary silent author , and consumed in another place by a solitary silent reader . |
| 5 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 6 | There is however no existing policy , control development and change across this wide countryside . |
| 7 | … and change into that subdirectory . |
| 8 | A more gender-balanced communication requires that there be a process of redefinition and change in all areas of human activity . |
| 9 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 10 | It is useful for bringing together the separate parts of the ANLT and the grammar and lexicon can be developed and altered within this environment . |
| 11 | It also troubled Peggie Boswell , and arose in those memorable letters between herself and Johnson . |
| 12 | Patients can feel insecure and frightened in this new environment and anxiety increases the risk of accident . |
| 13 | We urge you to suspend censorship of the media and refrain from all other repressive measures that inhibit the free flow of information and the practice of independent journalism . |
| 14 | Therefore bide your time and refrain from all action , until I send you word that you may come with my warranty to the council table . |
| 15 | So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks . |
| 16 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 17 | I knew exactly how I would do this and explained in some detail , finding Alec Reid equally fascinated . |
| 18 | Instead , the Spirit of the Lord would rest and remain on such a man . |
| 19 | For any given orbit , there is only one speed at which a satellite can travel and remain in that orbit . |
| 20 | Already equipped for this the fire brigade provided tarpaulins and arranged for more to be sent round . |
| 21 | If the application is urgent , eg for a non-molestation injunction under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and there is no judge sitting , the court office will say at what court there is a judge and the application may be made and heard at that court , but the more usual practice is for the application itself to be made in the court which would otherwise have been appropriate , with the papers and order being sent back to that court after the hearing . |
| 22 | But Hermens said he was confident Krabbe would be cleared after he had talked to leading athletics officials and heard about another report from the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) which also classifies the drug as a stimulant . |
| 23 | Taking one of a pair of identical towers and re-building in another form , e.g. helps the child towards the idea of invariance of number — there are the same number of blocks ‘ before ’ and ‘ after ’ although they look different . |
| 24 | ‘ We thought up the collection idea and checked into all the legalities . |
| 25 | Raising the trapdoor a little more so he could see out , he cautiously pushed out the barrel of the shotgun and checked for any sign of enemy personnel , as best as he could in his limited field of vision . |
| 26 | Figures were compared and checked against those provided from the computer print-out , leaving the manager optimistic about his potential success . |
| 27 | I apply the A A schedule of motoring costs , B one eight one , for an engine capacity of two thousand and one to three thousand C C , of three thousand two hundred and eighty eight pounds and eighty eight pence and subtract from that figure the corresponding figure for an engine capacity of one thousand and one to fourteen hundred C C , namely one thousand two hundred and fifty three pounds and thirteen pence for the vehicle I find that she would otherwise have run . |
| 28 | And subtract from that figure the corresponding figure for an engine capacity of one thousand and one to fourteen hundred C C , namely one thousand two hundred and fifty three pounds and thirteen pence for the vehicle I find she would otherwise have run . |
| 29 | And they do claime demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted Rights and Liberties and that noe Declarations Judgements Doeings or proceedings to the prejudice of the People in any of the said premisses ought in any wise to bee drawne hereafter into Consequence or Example . |
| 30 | This study will focus in addition on the responses made by schools , examining issues such as how they obtain , interpret and act upon clues regarding the preferences of parents of potential pupils , and what factors constrain them in understanding and reacting to such information . |