Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more one can not say , because although Mitchell made admirable attempts to colour and project his lines , the quartet playing was so uncommitted and flabby , so lacking in dynamic range and in lustre , that Crawford 's music had little chance to make more than superficial impact . |
| 2 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 3 | The other half , she admitted to herself , wanted nothing more than to fling herself into his arms , use all her feminine wiles to attack and conquer his patronising self-control . |
| 4 | Thickened his voice in the wrong places to try and convince us that he was under the influence . |
| 5 | Foreign observers sniggered and called him a basketball player . |
| 6 | Although social arrangements constrain and control us , they are still constructed and reproduced by human action . |
| 7 | Gypsy violins cast their eerie spell as a host of models and popular personalities camped and cavorted their way along an interminable red-carpeted runway on Sunday evening . |
| 8 | Furthermore , as the French kings developed and extended their legal powers they increasingly intervened in the affairs of the duchy , and cases arising in the duchy might be taken on appeal to Paris , thus undermining the authority of the duke . |
| 9 | It is remarkable indeed how little understanding we have of warfare in this period ; and we shall never know in detail how medieval kings acquired and held their power unless we can find out more precisely how they recruited their armies and led them . |
| 10 | Built up over the past 10 years , his aquilegia collection consists of about 130 species and hybrids , with the emphasis on species ‘ to save as many as possible from extinction and allow present and future generations to know and enjoy their great beauty ’ . |
| 11 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 12 | It is essential , for example , that school-leavers should be able to write a letter in polite , direct , and simple style , using appropriate formulae to begin and end it . |
| 13 | Additionally , we will continue to look for suitable opportunities to work with appropriate companies to expand and improve our business through partnership or acquisition . |
| 14 | These are the monuments to generations of individual farmers ploughing and draining their fields . |
| 15 | The children 's toy market is big business — worth £3 billion a year , it uses vast resources to make and package its products . |
| 16 | Their own consensual efforts to deny and suppress them would then be exposed for the deceitful sham they have always been . |
| 17 | They know the Chancellor has to view the budget as a whole and it 's quite impossible if individual members try and force their will . |
| 18 | Lasbeams , gouts of flame , and ordinary bullets ripped and charred his clothes but were deflected by the energy armour he wore beneath . |
| 19 | It happened at night in the stable , and in the morning the Untouchable women came and dragged it outside and butchered it just in front of the house . |
| 20 | I had , for once , no official papers to read and picked it up to read in the tram . |
| 21 | Glass , however , may crystallize out or devitrify in the solid state if it 's left long enough , with myriads of tiny crystals forming and making it opaque . |
| 22 | From the following cross-section of recipes , chosen from cookery books written by professional and practising cooks and from household receipt books of the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , emerges a fairly clear picture of the ways in which the cooks of the Stuart , the Georgian and the Victorian eras made and served their syllabubs . |
| 23 | His unbuckled trousers slid and tripped him headlong into the corridor outside . |
| 24 | Now you 're gon na want a pin , these are rather small pins , I recommend that peop people who have got large hands try and fit their first aid kit out with large pins , they 're much easier to handle , but firstly they do not put pins in their mouths for obvious reasons , either , either have it on the table open ready or just pop it in the front of shirt while you do this bit , okay ? |
| 25 | It was a big shock and when I said yes there were about 100 Australian tourists cheering and photographing us . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It was a big shock and when I said yes there were about 100 Australian tourists cheering and photographing us . ’ |
| 27 | In promoting consumer products , in competition with each other , the advertisements promote the values of capitalism — the stress laid on wealth and working hard in conventional modes to try and achieve it , competition and the importance of consumer goods as an expression of self and status . |
| 28 | It was only because the human beings sinned and let him in that he was able , like some robber baron , to plunder God 's territory . |
| 29 | It is a common sight to see bands of penniless zealots whipping and beating themselves as they travel from village to village , begging scraps of food and preaching their own nightmare vision of doom and despondency . |
| 30 | In What the Butler Saw , sexuality , like language , becomes decentred and therefore radically contingent : it not only escapes from , but disorientates the medical and legal attempts to define and regulate it . |