Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese schools are very disciplinarian , with corporal punishment accepted , and rules regulating everything from hairstyle to how to lace one 's shoes . |
| 2 | He needs a confession , and attempts to gain one by offering the same deal to each prisoner . |
| 3 | Colours , textures and patterns affect everyone differently so there are no hard and fast rules , but there are some guidelines that will help you with your choice . |
| 4 | There is a considerable choice , with quality rods and blanks to meet everyone 's budget . |
| 5 | The way he moves his arms and shoulders suggests something between a marksman and a beekeeper putting a swarm into a hive . |
| 6 | Consequently , this is not an ‘ audit report ’ as Auditing Standards and Guidelines define one , but is instead an ‘ accountant 's report ’ . |
| 7 | And , of course , the scientific approach through general laws and formulae has nothing to work on in this sort of context . |
| 8 | In effect I reckon it will only take a slight upward change of gear and performances to become something special . |
| 9 | He explored her shamelessly , and his squeezing and probings froze something inside her , so that their effect was the exact opposite of what he intended . |
| 10 | A long garden with plenty of tall shrubs and bushes means plenty of cover for an attacker to hide there and surprise you on your night-time walk to the front door . |
| 11 | She confides , ‘ He gets a few drinks and wants to wipe everybody out . ’ |
| 12 | Nor does cran — seem to carry any meaning into newly coined forms : we can make sense , for instance , of billy-giraffe and nanny-giraffe by analogy with billy-goat and nanny-goat , and also of foot the fees ; but creations like cranbeads and bilbeads convey nothing , although one might have expected some interpretation such as ‘ small round red beads ’ and ‘ small round purple beads ’ . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Managers deserve a momento , after all the referee and linesmen get one . ’ |
| 14 | Bookmakers and officials realised something was amiss and Willett , who had hoped to net £21,000 from his coup , got away with just £1,964 . |
| 15 | But these abuses and reforms have nothing to do with the order made by Buckley J. in the present proceedings . |
| 16 | But found it he did , and the Congress 's early visibility and successes owed something to his organizing talents and access to parliamentary and public opinion at home . |
| 17 | Trouble arises at this point , for no country can ensure that all its ministries and agencies manage everything in a wholly co-ordinated way . |
| 18 | Their experiences and feelings embrace lots of important areas of life — love , boyfriends , sex and contraception ; relationships with parents and friends ; school , adoption , abortion , pregnancy and birth , Mother and Baby Homes , surviving on social security benefits , living alone , getting married , and much more . |
| 19 | In such primitive surroundings , amid the stunning beauties of the island and the glories of the Aegean , where fishermen still wrested a living from the sea and farmers scrabbled one from the land , Leonard found his peace ; his ‘ sitting-down time , ’ as he called it , where he could — as all poets must — recollect in tranquillity . |
| 20 | Tanks and guns bombarding one 's inside seemed totally out of place , so I sought inspiration in earlier times , in the knowledge that what was once just as hideous has , over the years been softened by children 's books , Morte d'Arthur and the legends of chivalry . |
| 21 | The response from designers and knitters included plenty of suggestions for improvement in the basic shapes and version 2 of Designaknit was born a few weeks later . |
| 22 | The mere fact that it was convenient to do so through a story of a murder and the murderer 's subsequent feelings and actions had nothing essential to contribute . |
| 23 | With such problems and difficulties to overcome one wonders why anyone bothers . |
| 24 | Around half a mile away was the small Hertfordshire town of Tring with shops and bakeries providing everything for a canal side picnic . |
| 25 | I do n't just knit sweaters , but experiment with new patterns , colours and textures making anything from hats to curtain . |
| 26 | Asians know nothing about Africa and Africans know nothing about Asia . |
| 27 | Faces and names mean naught there . |
| 28 | It is completely ‘ straight ’ and tempos strike one as just right ; Stokowski is steadier than Reiner both in the scherzo and the finale , and every bit as intense , if not more so , in the opening Largo . |
| 29 | Yet Chapman had his answer for the pessimists : if the game was becoming more defensive it was up to managers and players to do something about it . |
| 30 | Most of the St Joseph 's boys and girls finished everything on their plates — and went back for seconds or even thirds . |