Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Any junkie or Bowery red-eye comes limping down the street , then five sombre fatboys with baseball bats and axe-handles stride out of the nearest trattoria . |
| 32 | They are not necessarily the cheapest but can sometimes offer a package deal supplying all requirements from a single source with own stock and products bought in for the purpose . |
| 33 | The Institute is made up of two departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured , and Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods and products live up to the claims made by manufacturers . |
| 34 | There was mass saluting , mass mumbling and mass pouring out of the door . |
| 35 | He has taken it in response to the pressure and fight put up by the ‘ homelands Chief Ministers ’ — Buthelezi and Co . |
| 36 | Adele turned away , apparently satisfied , and Isabel shrank back on the bench , half hidden by Adele 's body as the other girl leaned forward to hear what was going on . |
| 37 | Once the ale was finished , Bessie and Edgebone went back into the house to go to bed . |
| 38 | All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time . |
| 39 | Agatha fainted , and Sophie ran out of the house . |
| 40 | A person of ‘ quality ’ — such as a member of the landed gentry or the clergy — would be at the top of their scale , commanding a funeral similar to that organized by the College of Arms for a knight bachelor , with paupers and wayfarers coming in at the bottom . |
| 41 | You will be taught about hazards both in the classroom and on the wards and should always adhere to procedures and policies laid down for the safety of patients and yourself . |
| 42 | There is nothing immoral about being a member of CND , but we must understand that the principles and policies of that organisation are wholly different from the principles and policies set out in the motion . |
| 43 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 44 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
| 45 | An exhibition of some of the work and research carried out by the University of Stirling was on display in the crush hall . |
| 46 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 47 | Since the 1920's Berlin has been a city encountered through images : Doblin , Pabst and Isherwood ; the diabolic glamour of Nazism ; Year Zero ; the Airlift ; John Kennedy and spies coming in from the cold ; the generation of " 68 , the stylized desperation of the punk underground , and angels made corporeal . |
| 48 | If you were in a wine bar with ferns , mellowed out on red wine and having a really sloppy kissy kissy lovey dovey ooghy woogy dinner with your lover and Blueboy came on as the cabaret , you would go berserk and slash open their gizzards with the cake fork . |
| 49 | Horatia fled and Rossmayne went back to the window where he had been standing when the bad dream had begun . |
| 50 | One of his arms moved a little and blood ran out of the side of his head onto the wet tarmac . |
| 51 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 52 | I could just make out Tobermory , looking like an Anne Redpath painting , cubes of white and blue and primrose and Venetian red , the houses and shops strung out along the bay , tiny in the distance . |
| 53 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 54 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 55 | There had been research and review carried out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and by International Movements Towards Educational Change ( IMTEC ) . |
| 56 | Gloria and Dot went down to the Town Hall once a fortnight to collect Dot 's vitamin ration . |
| 57 | So Gloria and Dot went back down the area steps to their room , leaving the sunshine behind . |
| 58 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 59 | The pops and bangs going off around the Porte de Versailles last week signalled a European industry in panic as the date for free access to the European market by the Japanese gets ever closer . |
| 60 | The rats fled and Corbett fell back on the ledge , chest heaving , sobbing with anger and fear , his eyes fixed on the grating , praying for dawn . |