Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To everyone within the division who has worked particularly hard this year to establish and improve our business , I would like to pass on my thanks and best wishes for Christmas and the New Year . |
| 2 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 3 | Bamba was aware of my moods and embarrassingly snarled at anyone I disliked , but was n't telepathic — except in one respect . |
| 4 | Scorpions are carnivorous and feed mainly on insects which they catch with their claws and then kill by stinging . |
| 5 | Sophie looked at both her sons and then sank into a chair . |
| 6 | Such customers generally provide information to the Bank on flows on their accounts and hence help in the process of predicting the cash position in the money market . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the separated and isolated prisoners , having no ‘ back regions ’ in which to hide , reflect on their sins and eventually emerge as reformed characters . |
| 8 | She reluctantly followed Nicole outside , certain that she was verging on dragging her steps and generally acting like a twelve-year-old delinquent on the way to the principal 's office . |
| 9 | It is the Sodom of our century , destroyed for her sins and then left as a stern reminder . |
| 10 | Halting , she sat back on her heels and just stared at him . |
| 11 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 12 | Whereas previous schemes , such as that of Dewey , presented an enumerated list of subjects in hierarchical layout with appended notation ( e.g. decimal numbers ) to express the system in practice , the Colon Classification distinguishes a range of " facets " in each major subject area , which the classifier combines ( like a set of parts ) to form an extended symbol which both expresses the specific subject and its relationships and also allows for its easy insertion in and retrieval from a store sequence ( e.g. a shelf ) . |
| 13 | She picked up her handbag , rooted for her keys and then put on her tweed coat and closed the door behind her . |
| 14 | ? We took the door off its hinges and then walked through it . |
| 15 | The opposition leaders were arrested , most of them roused from their beds and quietly transferred to the prison of Mazas . |
| 16 | They sketched their ideas and then looked for clothes to match . |
| 17 | The room , which overlooked the booking hall or the station , was large enough for their purposes and grandly panelled in mahogany . |
| 18 | She winced and the colour shrank out of her cheeks and then reappeared in two hot spots high on her cheekbones . |
| 19 | It will create a family doctor service more accountable to its customers and more attuned to its patients ’ needs . ’ |
| 20 | Sara showed them their rooms and then went to her own to tidy herself up , leaving them to their own devices . |
| 21 | The Types of Space section is particularly informative and should stimulate communities to identify the green areas in their neighbourhoods and hopefully lead to a greater appreciation of them . |
| 22 | With the negotiations over , Sugar returned the same afternoon with between eighteen and twenty PoWs , landing at Westcott to disembark its passengers and then return to Waddington . |
| 23 | Faced with mortgages charged at 15.4 per cent and higher , borrowers could n't afford to keep up their payments and so fell into arrears . |
| 24 | These are songs stripped to their basics and then adorned with beautifully hooked melodies and harmonies . |
| 25 | On Friday , after an inconclusive result , the Queen would have to consult her advisers and then send for someone to invite them to top the bill at the Royal Variety Performance . |
| 26 | Only among the poor , the retainers who had accompanied their masters and later fallen from favour , or among the half-caste children brought up by superstitious mothers true to their old faith , did the little goddess of love and war retain a true following . |
| 27 | This was particularly so on the Sunday when , in scorching heat , Brazilian fans ‘ danced , sang , shouted and screamed hysterically for every point scored by their players and ever fault by Germany 's Markus Zoecke , standing in for heat-stroke victim Becker , in what proved to be the decisive fourth rubber . |
| 28 | And here we learn something new , for though the sculptor has chosen to leave the left hand exposed he gives us an indication as to how shrouds were placed once the body had been encoffined : the right sleeve has been pulled down over its hands and gently tucked under the fingers . |
| 29 | Before a bushbaby sets out into the African night , it performs a strange ritual : it cups its hands and then urinates on them . |
| 30 | All the tenets of software pricing , laid down by IBM Corp for its mainframes and slavishly copied by the rest of the industry , are being swept away with the erosion of IBM 's dominance . |