Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How are the coins and notes set out in the till drawer ? |
| 2 | A pheasant squawked and birds burst out of the trees . |
| 3 | I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings . |
| 4 | In fact the canopy is deliberately being kept up whatever the weather for ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ , because the company found it has acoustic properties and projects sound out to the audience . |
| 5 | Its principal hall , which still stands , is as long and as narrow as a ship , with delicately carved kiosks and balconies projecting out over the lake . |
| 6 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 7 | In every Legion Regiment , the English-speaking people stuck together in tight groups , drinking together , socialising together and looking after each other ; Australians , South Africans and Canadians joined in with the club , which evolved its own codes of conduct and unspoken rules of behaviour . |
| 8 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 9 | On these mornings her freckled face was blanched , and she sat motionless at the breakfast table , staring sightlessly into a cup of cold , wrinkle-skinned coffee , while her long red hair gradually slithered out of the nest of twists she had knotted it into , and hairgrips pinged out over the floor and the table around her . |
| 10 | Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith . |
| 11 | Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] . |
| 12 | But coaching and plans went out of the window . |
| 13 | Matches and trophies carried on after the outbreak of war in August 1914 , although the Autumn Meeting in October was almost cancelled . |
| 14 | The new station , consisting of the by then classic steel , concrete , and glass concourse with facilities around its outer flanks and with steps and ramps leading down to the platforms below , gave a new twist to the separation of passengers and baggage regarded as an ideal at so many American stations . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The time of Sigmar sees the Orcs and Goblins driven out of the lands west of the Worlds Edge Mountains . |
| 29 | Street activities have increased by 60 per cent in Moabit and there is evidence elsewhere too of cafés , shops and restaurants spilling out into the street . |
| 30 | And the police have alerted banks , building societies , pubs and traders to look out for the notes . |