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Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1	‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’
2	Ditched in the Vertigo dumper are the pop songs and in their place comes track upon track of similar-sounding , decidedly gloomy psychedelic romps which they do , on occasion , pull off by the skin of their mushrooms .
3	Besides all his sons Henry Ii was accompanied by a daughter , Matilda , and her husband , the greatest of the German princes , Henry the Lion , formerly Duke of Saxony and Bavaria , but now driven into exile and on his way to the shrine at Compostella .
4	There was Britain — the country with which Iran had the longest association and with which many Iranians had an almost neurotic relationship .
5	The famous 1974 address still remains , in some respects , a benchmark of his thinking and of his central concern .
6	Then the icy touch of the water reminded her that she had planned to cool the hock in it for Finn and the bastard was n't here ; and for a moment her towel served as a handkerchief as she mourned , and then , since she considered it degrading to weep for a faithless man , she dried her eyes and her ears and under her chin and returned with springing step to the cottage .
7	She 'd showered and lightened her hair , clipped gold in her ears and at her throat , slid into a renaissance shirt and pants of soft silk and called a cab .
8	She had black hair and great stormy black eyes , and there was gold at her ears and round her neck .
9	His memory of her , which for years , a traitor to grief and to their love , he had resolutely tried to suppress because the pain had seemed unbearable , had gradually been replaced by a boyish , romantic dream of gentleness and beauty now fixed for ever beyond the depredation of time .
10	Even in the Lockerbie disaster , where a plane exploded in mid-air , and many bodies could only be pieced together in fragments , relatives came from the other side of the world searching for something , anything that gave a focus to their grief and over which they could weep .
11	The dealer left Sheppards of his own accord and against his manager' wishes , when he was offered a more lucrative Position elsewhere .
12	It remains to be seen whether or not Novell would acquire all of AT&T 's remaining stock and at what price .
13	Conveying health to your stock and to your seed .
14	He went by jeep and on his way back to Brigade H.Q he ran over a German mine and was killed . ’
15	His principal work in philosophy is a detailed refutation of Nicolas Malebranche 's Cartesian theory of perception and of his non-Cartesian , Augustinian , doctrine of ‘ vision in God ’ , the doctrine from which George Berkeley sought to dissociate himself .
16	Terminally ill people are not only identifiable , but their closest relatives are also easily located in hospital and hospice settings and from their contacts with clergymen and general practitioners .
17	She knelt down and rolled them up Bella 's legs and over her swollen knees .
18	The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place .
19	There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues .
20	The association with Lancashire lasted until 1986 and was always a happy one , for he was enormously popular with the fans and with his team-mates .
21	It was a mark of the esteem in which John Burridge was held at Selhurst Park , both as a goalkeeper and as a showman , that whenever he has subsequently returned here with his later clubs he has invariably been accorded a warm welcome , both from Palace fans and from his former playing colleagues .
22	What , if any , additional accounts need to be opened in the second year to cope with the fact that the business is now a partnership and for what reason are they needed ?
23	The tocsin bell was balanced on an iron ring and from its great brass tongue hung a long piece of cord .
24	Furthermore , the Angolan people are well known for their friendliness to foreigners and for their placid and kind nature .
25	The astounding indulgences granted Winterbotham by the regime apparently formed part of a scheme to woo ranking foreigners and through them impress their governments with Germany 's mounting might .
26	And these , along with other cortical events relating to other sensory pathways , are the basis of consciousness and of our state of being ‘ worlded ’ .
27	Again , the ‘ normal ’ situation in the sciences is not a sure guide , as none of you needs to be reminded , when the brain and mind are the subjects of investigation , given the peculiar features that attach to the notion of consciousness and to its close relations , thought , feeling , privacy and so on .
28	By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests .
29	Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets .
30	He had long since retired from competitive football and like his tragic contemporary , the boxer Benny Lynch , Gallacher only had memories to live on .