Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] and [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke without any sign of softening or apologising and Maggie 's temper rose a little higher . |
| 2 | Mr Field , 47 , a chartered accountant , has worked for Capital House , which now has more than £4 billion under management , since its inception , having previously worked for Save & Prosper and Britannia Unit Trust Managers . |
| 3 | THE PROPOSED international merger between Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Touche Ross is likely to be holed below the waterline this week when the French arm of Deloitte pulls out of the agreement . |
| 4 | Clean the There used to be huge stocks leading right up to Mapperley Pit , of this slag and stuff , and they sold all that off , and er that was the year that fought and Al broke his thumb on him . |
| 5 | There was nothing in this model either to inspire public managers to create the " cultures of excellence " that Peters and Waterman had talked about , and that the Griffiths Report in part reflects . |
| 6 | Since one of the major objectives of the White Paper is to increase the efficiency of the NHS , it is important that health care objectives are evaluated from an economic viewpoint and that monitoring arrangements are put in place to ensure that HAs and FPCs rise to the challenge . |
| 7 | This paper has outlined the ways of assessing efficiency , the ways in which the White Paper proposals present new opportunities and the monitoring arrangements to ensure that HAs and FPCs seize them . |
| 8 | ‘ They have been tapping the money that Place and Egan left with them for safety . |
| 9 | I predict with some confidence that Chew and Blagdon will be at top levels for the start of the 1991 angling year . |
| 10 | And in their own dossiers , I found a few suggestive hints to the effect that Rains and Kruger were hardly spotless . |
| 11 | A report on Estonian Radio on April 27 said that Veering and Puura had been given the responsibility of expediting the setting up of an Estonian Defence Ministry . |
| 12 | The bus rocked and skidded to a halt ; a horse-drawn delivery van close behind them swerved violently — the horse reared , its front hooves lashing wildly in thin air — someone screamed , the frightened horse whinnied and plunged and Mabel , struck down by flying hooves , lay motionless upon the roadway as one wheel of the van ran over her breast , and her life 's blood dribbled away into the gutter . |
| 13 | I do not think she derived any great benefits from being ennobled , but obviously it was something she liked and sought and Harold Wilson could see little or no reason for not obliging her . |
| 14 | The ordinary cinema goer sees a lot of glamour in directing and producing and God knows what else , but you you really postman |
| 15 | How can her eyes and hands and breasts meet and mingle and Lucy say categorically , like not for one minute or second or fleeting flit of time , never never never had she been in love . |
| 16 | There was a great fuss and bother and Mrs Bradford sent for her . |
| 17 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 18 | The whole flat , and the garden , within a very short space of time , was wired for sound and you would come in , perhaps in the middle of the night , and fall flat on your face over and leads and God knows what . |
| 19 | People laughed and applauded and Sheridan looked truly murderous . |
| 20 | Ruth had nodded and smiled and Fernando had kissed the tip of her nose . |
| 21 | Hugh , an officer in the army , is given leave to train and compete and Mike , who last year graduated from Harvard Business School with honours , works part-time for a management consultancy firm . |
| 22 | Water levels are coming up at exactly the same speed , and Chew and Blagdon are even being visited by the same migrant wildfowl . |
| 23 | My mates — Micky was there and Trace and Cheryl — I share the house with them . |
| 24 | Arghatun came over with an aide called Hodai , and they stood and grinned and Rostov flexed the bow experimentally . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's escaped from prison , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ but he had n't done anything , it was someone else who cheated and lied and Craig was the one to take the blame . ’ |
| 26 | It begins to improve when Joe nurses Pip back to good health , which is very powerful and moving and Pip once again begin to see Joe as that ‘ gentle Christian man ’ . |
| 27 | The sky was dark and threatening and Felipe had looked like that as he 'd left the house . |
| 28 | The reply was prompt and ungrudging and McLeish breathed easier . |
| 29 | Her sweaters had necks that were sewn and cut and Pauline included the following instructions for adding a fully fashioned band as a neat finish by her easy method that avoids having to backstitch through open loops . |
| 30 | The chief engineer 's department remained in the old CEB headquarters , and Hacking and Pask were looked upon by the divisions as the engineering heads of the industry , but the division of responsibilities at the top of the BEA , as we have seen , envisaged a role also for Self , as the deputy chairman in charge of administration ( pp. 12–13 , above ) . |