Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 2 | Some years earlier , John Wood tries ‘ however quaint the thought may appear … to feel as the cottager himself ; and for that end to visit him ; to enquire after the conveniences he wanted , and into the inconveniences he laboured under ’ . |
| 3 | Harvard dealers were granted the same perk and for that reason kept it concealed from clients , even if it would swing the sale . |
| 4 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 5 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 6 | Villa Banfi is an American firm which bought an abandoned estate in an area famous for its wine production , and through massive investment developed it into one of the largest single enterprises of its kind in Europe . |
| 7 | A traverse round the corner gains the front of the buttress and after one balancy step it was a romp to a belay , sat on the forehead of this giant Easter Island lookalike . |
| 8 | Carrington never wavered from her suicidal intentions , and despite all efforts to deter her , shot herself in Hungerford 11 March 1932 . |
| 9 | A woman who valued herself more could have said , ‘ Well , now I 'll have time to do other things ’ , but for this woman life without the sense of being needed and of other people valuing her had no point . |
| 10 | They were not then a class which had consolidated its position through marriage and inheritance : the combination of their own practice and of national policy made it unlikely that they would ever be able to do so . |
| 11 | What is being claimed here is that , though it is of great importance , the complexity of the total set of sequential and prosodic components of intonation and of paralinguistic features makes it a very difficult thing to teach . |
| 12 | The Society sees this as the best protection against the exclusion of some firms from franchising and against any attempt to force them to tender for legal aid work on the basis of price . |
| 13 | She pulled off a fluffy piece and with sticky fingers offered it to Uncle Albert . |
| 14 | And with that Dad thrust him roughly towards the door . |
| 15 | ‘ And with that David kissed me on the cheek . |
| 16 | Oh , she had the bag of coins beneath the bedroom floorboards , but it was no fortune , and with four mouths to feed it would n't last very long . |
| 17 | Wagner , for his part , was equally taken with his gifted young admirer and , as Nietzsche explained to Rohde , " when we were getting ready to leave , he shook my hand warmly and with great friendliness invited me to visit him , in order to make music and talk philosophy . " |
| 18 | As a group swells in size with natural increase of population and with new members joining it from outside , it eventually reaches a point where it ceases to enjoy an optimum exploitative relationship with its physical and economic resources . |
| 19 | She kept going , blindly , and with both men chasing her . |
| 20 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 21 | Nadobenko , Gary Beneke of South Africa and John Charlesworth of the Britannia team broke clear on the circuit and with three laps left they were joined by Norwegian Ole Simensen . |
| 22 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 23 | Next year brought her a Titian and in 1898 Berenson persuaded her to buy Rembrandt 's only known seascape . |
| 24 | The 14th Dalai Lama , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , fled to India , where he was granted political asylum and in 1964 China declared him to be a traitor . |
| 25 | When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently . |
| 26 | The British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) , which analyses the annual survey data , attributes the 1991 results partly to the unpleasant spring and slow migration , and in many cases regards them as reflecting normal fluctuations in the bird population . |
| 27 | The incident did little harm to Gunn 's career and in many respects endeared him to Scotland fans . |
| 28 | Hart 's comparison of medical care provision in poor industrial areas and in affluent areas led him to conclude that there was an ‘ inverse care law ’ in the matching of medical resources with medical needs , i.e. ‘ the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served . ’ |
| 29 | But towards the end of the journey , he began to recognize familiar places , and in great excitement pointed them out to Rose . |
| 30 | If ( as often happens ) you find that your pupilmaster does not have enough work in the smaller courts and in administrative tribunals to give you adequate experience , ask him if he will arrange with another member of chambers to enable you to see more of these courts and tribunals . |