Example sentences of "and [det] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gunter flicked his thumb this way and that and grinned like a Cheshire cat . |
| 2 | Linda buried herself in the crowd , exchanging words with this one and that and heading for the bar . |
| 3 | She was marked out by her brightly coloured stockings , some red , some yellow and some that looked like a chessboard . |
| 4 | When Mr Ramsay died in 1943 the Leaders paid tribute to one who was greatly loved : ‘ Testimony was given to his worth and zeal in the work and all that pertained to the welfare of the church , and particularly to his services in the choir and his love for the weekly prayer meeting . ’ |
| 5 | Lastly , all that Louis IX abandoned in favour of Henry III — his fiefs and domains in Limousin , Quercy , and Périgord ( the so-called ‘ three dioceses ’ ) and all that remained to the Plantagenets of the ancient duchy of Aquitaine — was to be held by the king of England as an hereditary fief . |
| 6 | As Skinner ( 1985 ) points out , plants or clones derived from the parent plant are not always genetically identical and those that differ from the parent plant are known as somatic variants or ‘ sports ’ . |
| 7 | If people understood formal legislation as only a matter of negotiated solutions to discrete problems , with no underlying commitment to any more fundamental public conception of justice , they would draw a sharp distinction between two kinds of encounters with fellow citizens : those that fall within and those that fall outside the scope of some past political decision . |
| 8 | And we walked down clubbing right and left , and we cleared the streets and those that fell to the floor were carried off by those who had hidden behind when we went past . |
| 9 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 10 | In the case of processes , the division between those that make up the longue durée and those that belong to the sphere of conjonctures is bound to be rough ; there is no absolute division between a gradual increase in population lasting for a century and a cycle of growth and decline lasting a mere seventy-five years , a fact reflected in the organisation of La Méditerranée . |
| 11 | Although Le Roy Ladurie 's approach is less haphazard , he too switches back and forth between structural explanations that assume the rationality of individual agents , and those that appeal to the psychology of the unconscious . |
| 12 | The decree of 1616 did attempt to discriminate between books that aimed to reconcile the earth 's motion with Scripture and those that remained within the confines of astronomical hypothesis . |
| 13 | Oxygen is extremely reactive , and any that appeared in an atmosphere containing ammonia , hydrogen cyanide , and the rest , would immediately have reacted with them . |
| 14 | I want every house in Albert Terrace and any that lie between the terrace and the town checked . |