Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Becker and Engelman combined only for a pleasantly smoochy encore by David Jaeger , composed this year and arranged by Engelman from a piano accompaniment to the viola . |
2 | Luke 's hand moved on , his light fingertip locating the tiny peak of sensitivity which he already knew to be utterly vulnerable to his skills , and Maria moaned softly as a pang of piercingly erotic sensation went thrilling through her . |
3 | ‘ A call I should like , ’ said Dorothy , with some emphasis , ‘ but Ray seems to be inviting himself and Kathleen to stay here for a night or two . ’ |
4 | It was a crock of shadow and dull rich colour , and Ruth crouched there like a white spider in her web , her beautiful ugly little face pierced by the blackness of the Scarabae eyes . |
5 | The next day in Kisangani , Kiah and Rilla waited quietly in an office in Gog 's house . |
6 | Will you and Jane wait there for a while until I 'm respectable again ? ’ |
7 | IBM demonstrated OS/2 and OSF/1 running concurrently on a PS/2 at Comdex a few weeks back , using the multiple personality capabilities of OSF 's Mach-based microkernel technology . |
8 | Zeinab was very quiet afterwards as she and Owen drove home in an arabeah . |
9 | They resumed their seats and Owen slipped away into a tide of music and colour . |
10 | She sat with her back to the window and Lee felt somewhat at a loss faced , at last , by the elderly woman in the opaque , black-lensed spectacles and the expensive , rather drab suit , framed by sun-rays admitted through the tall crimson-curtained opening . |
11 | The regional realignment during the Gulf war , he contended , had meant Arab states and Israel standing together against a common aggressor , Iraq . |
12 | Anna and Peter had a small , yellow terraced house with a garden , and Anna worked part-time as a clerk in the almoner 's office of a nearby hospital ; the Ramsays had only a flat , off Norham Gardens in Oxford , and even less money than the Bouveries because they were supporting Eleanor 's widowed mother-in-law , who had senile dementia . |
13 | For 12 months , BP and Unipart worked together on a basis of trust , getting together the right people from both sides , brainstorming and exploring the many opportunities for collaborative activity — not just in Eastern Europe . |
14 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
15 | Flabagon and Frito fell backwards into a heap , and the cauldron catapulted forward right towards the Goblin King . |
16 | Rose and Victorine went past with a smile and a nod , feet severely in tune . |
17 | Kalchu , Nara and Kāli slept outside under a rug . |
18 | Barbour was twice on the mark after the restart with two penalties and Holywood retreated further against a now rampant RUC , whose flying wingmen Hamilton and Walton were having a field day . |
19 | King Edward VII and his Consort , Alexandra , were able to influence international events , particularly in Europe , which continued to be the predominant continent and Britain looked forward to a long period of peaceful influence . |
20 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
21 | What it does n't currently offer is Unix SVR4 compatibility , and Solbourne commits only to a gradual migration to Solaris over a two year period . |
22 | Soup kitchens were more numerous than blast furnaces , and Coalbrookdale declined almost into an industrial ghost town . |
23 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
24 | He wants the findings and recommendations of the Commission for Local Authority Accounts in Scotland over a special report on the Western Isles Council and BCCI set aside in an action for judicial review that went before Lord Prosser yesterday . |
25 | Someone put a dance record on the gramophone and presently Desmond Fairchild and Dotty swayed together in a corner of the room . |
26 | Pringle and Mallender bowled demandingly after a rain hold-up of just over an hour . |
27 | Blood jetted from his nostrils and Jimmy went backwards over a desk , taking a computer console with him . |
28 | DTI and SERC working together within a Joint Framework for Information Technology |
29 | In June some ballet music for Noverre ( Les petits riens ) and a new symphony ( the ‘ Paris ’ , K. 297 in D ) were performed at the Concert Spirituel : the symphony especially was a great success after a nerve-rackingly bad rehearsal , and Wolfgang celebrated afterwards with an ice-cream at the Palais Royal . |
30 | On Jan. 23 Algeria , Morocco , Libya , Tunisia and Mauritania called formally for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council . |