Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Priced from £12.99 to £32.50 , they are all beautifully designed and each comes with a two year guarantee . |
| 2 | Thankfully our landing was cushioned by the deep new snow and we came to a rest 100 metres lower , badly bruised and half strangled by the rope , but somehow down the couloir in one piece . |
| 3 | The government announced on April 12 that all charges against demonstrators would be dropped and that controls over the press would be relaxed . |
| 4 | ‘ No , ’ she said hoarsely , and wriggled against his hard thigh , trying to get away , her body lifted and half splayed by his . |
| 5 | The traditional type is delivered mixed and ready to lay by a special truck , and it is simply poured directly where required , or it can be poured into wheelbarrows . |
| 6 | But his eyes are averted and this combined with the sudden dwindling of scale conveys the sense that the sitter is both immediately present and unobtainable . |
| 7 | Such a procedure would allow for all attributes within an assembly to be grouped into those which can be internally resolved and those associating with external spaces . |
| 8 | More than two-thirds were privately educated and 400 went to Eton . |
| 9 | It can be expensive to provide and difficult to obtain at short notice , and has the disadvantage of not being readily available in ordinary schools . |
| 10 | Trent half swam and half wriggled across the cockpit to unblock the drainpipes . |
| 11 | Yeah it 's about time it were shaken up now that Labour Party er this government er , erm they 're agreeing to this , this has to be done and that has to be done you put notices up on buses all over Britain no smoking in the buses , now in the big restaurants they 're going to have to between now and July put notices up , no smoking in restaurants |
| 12 | She was dressed in one of her old dark , low-waisted gowns for warmth , for she had purchased no winter clothing among the new , but her glorious hair was uncovered and half falling about her shoulders from a careless knot on top of her head . |
| 13 | The factory rapidly expanded and this led to the almost total destruction of the remaining parts of the Bishop 's Palace . |
| 14 | But be prepared and able to speak without it just in case it is not available or an electrical fault develops . |
| 15 | Police fired warning shots into the air and many people suffered broken bones in the crush ; more than 100 people were injured and 1,000 arrested in the incident . |
| 16 | But as Sara White discovered , the re-enactment took on an air of reality with some twenty-five soldiers injured and seven taken to hospital . |
| 17 | Leland claimed his company was worth over $16 million : 3407 Lincolns had been built and 241 remained in the plant at the time of the sale . |
| 18 | She felt uncomfortable , watching him die and unable to care about him . |
| 19 | Many early investors built a bag of marbles , each well polished and each managed by a local team jealous of its independence . |
| 20 | So a new tactic was adopted and each put in £10 , raising a further £200 to £300 from friends . |
| 21 | The success of the operations is evaluated and many described in detail . |
| 22 | The shelling stopped and all appeared to be quiet ; even the sniping had ceased . |
| 23 | Fun to wear and great to look after . |
| 24 | The twelve bedrooms are tastefully furnished and each equipped with private bath or shower/WC room , remote control colour TV , direct dial telephone , hospitality tray and many complimentary items . |
| 25 | Although completed and ready to fly in October 1945 ( when short hops are reported to have been undertaken ) it did not officially fly until April 24 , 1946 on which date the other Soviet jet , the MiG–9 , also took to the air shortly before the Yak . |
| 26 | 5.1.2.1 How are given and new signalled in discourse ? |
| 27 | Up the long stone stairs from the kitchen , into the green enclosed light of the pantry passage , then on up the next staircase , its turns mean and sudden compared with the twin sweeps of the main stairs , Nicandra plodded her careful way to Aunt Tossie 's bedroom door . |
| 28 | Many people emerge from therapy far better adjusted and able to cope with life than others who have not been compelled by illness to work through loss and learn to know themselves . |
| 29 | The local landowners were reinstated and Polish introduced as the official language . |
| 30 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |