Example sentences of "books and [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Group members have published a number of books and articles and have linked in with other ESRC supported projects on Arctic co-operation . |
| 2 | She paced around the room thinking desperately , she needed free reign to look over her father 's books and records and to speak to the men in his employ . |
| 3 | He spoke French by preference , read French books and newspapers and followed French intellectual and cultural fashions rather than Egyptian ones . |
| 4 | You collect points on the way by collecting books and letters and have to avoid the Gruzzles by pointing them out to Benny , who then slimes them . |
| 5 | William , 10 , and eight-year-old Harry were given airline packs of colouring books and puzzles but chose to concentrate on a new computer game . |
| 6 | He stood up and began moving restlessly around the room , fiddling with books and ornaments and adjusting the glasses and cutlery on the table laid ready for their meal . |
| 7 | W.H. Smith owed no small part of his fortune to the stalls he had placed on every station platform , many of which not only offered a full range of books and papers but operated lending libraries . |
| 8 | Ockleton sprang from his chair , steered an unerring course through the piles of books and papers that littered his apartment and shook Harry clammily by the hand . |
| 9 | With a sulphurous glance at her , he grabbed his books and papers and rushed out . |
| 10 | Many of these are now professionally translated and produced and are supplanting the pirated , crudely photocopied sex books and pamphlets that appeared in the latter part of Gorbachev 's rule . |
| 11 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 12 | Just like Windsor , volunteers formed a human chain to rescue nearly 200,000 precious items — in this case , books and manuscripts that had to be protected from the firemen 's hoses as well as the flames . |
| 13 | She climbed a tree and made a tree-house , not with planks and nails and a hammer , but with willow branches , weaving like a harvest mouse , hauling cushions and books and food and drink with her : camping outside her own house , unseen but with a view all round . |
| 14 | Mother took books and crayons and accompanied Susan while she was seated on the lavatory , encouraging and talking to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in it . |
| 15 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |