Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arrival at the theatre I was met by Mr and Mrs Alexander Heymeyer , the latter was originally Scottish and born on the Isle of Skye . |
| 2 | ( The grant was repeated in 1876 and lodged in the National Bank , Bridgend ) . |
| 3 | It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed , dormer-windowed , gabled buildings . |
| 4 | Preston thought about this and came to no satisfactory conclusion . |
| 5 | I thought about this and came to the conclusion that it seemed a very good philosophy . |
| 6 | To ignore this and focus on the false antithesis of punctuation versus gradualism , with no mechanism to explain either , is to engage in a scholastic war of words largely devoid of scientific content . |
| 7 | The final hymn had eight verses , not to speak of a chorus of Hallelujahs at the end of each one ; Mr Frizzell enjoyed this and sang in a pleasant tenor voice . |
| 8 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 9 | Rocktron have noted this and vaulted to the rescue by producing the rather obscurely titled Bass mAxe . |
| 10 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 11 | Do not open this and drive at the same time . |
| 12 | Please can you look into this and arrange for the job to be finished as soon as possible . |
| 13 | I have to down this and get to the House in half an hour . |
| 14 | Some of these children , if they were given this attention over a two year period , could overcome this and go into the secondary school able to cope and take their place alongside the other children , and this is desperately important . |
| 15 | Ooh I 'll carry on watching this and go for a bloody shower ! |
| 16 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 17 | It starts as for Ziggerat , climbs direct to the first roof , pulls through this and continues up the steep wall to the next roof which is passed by very difficult bridging . |
| 18 | She wondered whether Philippa had really outgrown her passion for partially disabled men but she seemed oblivious of all this and sat like a springtime sprig in a bed of roses , contemplating her coincidental twin . |
| 19 | With this and talked about the rest of the the books . |
| 20 | Mandeville sensed this and closed like a hawk for the kill . |
| 21 | Just work on this and forget about the restrictive diet side of the equation . |
| 22 | Using exactly the same technique , I encouraged her to imagine doing just this and to practise for a further fortnight , after which she was in fact able to go to the local park and sit on a bench watching the children at play . |
| 23 | Go through this and continue on the good track into the woodland , passing a ‘ crossroads ’ with a wall and gate on the right . |
| 24 | It is important to make access an integral part of land management agreements wherever possible , but the landowner must be the one to decide on this and enter into a voluntary agreement to provide access . |
| 25 | Care assistants need to be sensitive about this and withdraw from the person while they are using the toilet . |
| 26 | She was anxious , for no such thing has ever happened to her before , her memory was always clear and rounded as a bell-note and utterly reliable . |
| 27 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 28 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 29 | Because of the sensitive nature of this service the pre-issuance review is necessary to give additional assurance that the firm policy is adhered to and that the firm 's report is clear and responds to the needs of the client . |
| 30 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |