Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roll out pastry trimmings , then cut into 12 × 1cm/½in strips with a pastry wheel and form a lattice across the flan . |
| 2 | Rural people in most countries suffer from isolation and lack a sense of solidarity or the opportunity to influence decision making . ’ |
| 3 | Our testing system measures meaningful data from power tubes under actual performance conditions so that we can closely match the tonal characteristics and produce a set of tubes with consistency of performance , better harmonic balance , more sustain and longer usable life . |
| 4 | ONLY SINEAD O'Connor could put together a seemingly uncontroversial , fun thing like a collection of cover versions of old standards and torch songs and put a speech at the end of it that questions the very foundations and ethics of the Catholic Church . |
| 5 | Help the Stroke Association and enter a competition at the same time . |
| 6 | I touched my swollen lips and my ears and had a roll-call of my limbs , but apart from my hand , an incipient black eye and a few abrasions there was n't much evidence of my encounter with Russian free enterprise and Soviet cavalry . |
| 7 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 8 | So one of your responses would be to bring in the privatization card and put a lot of this out to tender ? |
| 9 | He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse . |
| 10 | ‘ Customers are getting a raw deal and have a right to be angry . |
| 11 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 12 | It measures 44.8 cm wide and 54.8 cm deep — about the size of a microwave — will take four place settings and has a choice of normal , economy and quick-wash programmes . |
| 13 | Hillsdown spent £2,615.91 towards demonstrating environmental restoration work on a pond and hiring a marquee in his grounds at Winston Grange , near Debenham , Suffolk . |
| 14 | The hot summer days did n't deter this reader from digging his own pond and creating a haven in his town garden |
| 15 | If they traverse a patch of sunshine , the soldiers link legs and form a roof over the path so that the workers , who are less well armoured , are protected from the damaging heat . |
| 16 | A lot of them have eight legs and spend a lot of time in webs waiting for six-legged inhabitants to arrive for lunch . |
| 17 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 18 | CAP is a prokaryotic sequence-specific protein which is known to bind to DNA as a dimer and to induce a bend in DNA . |
| 19 | Reuter adds from Washington : President George Bush yesterday angrily denounced followers of Gen Aoun and said a partition of Lebanon would be totally unacceptable to the world community . |
| 20 | A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ . |
| 21 | A DAYTIME burglar struck a home in Four Marks on Tuesday and stole a quantity of jewellery . |
| 22 | It was not Dubroca 's fault that the story gathered momentum and became a headline in the English-speaking media for nearly two weeks while the World Cup bandwagon was still rolling on . |
| 23 | The men in the smithy seized him ; and one of them took a hammer and drove a nail into the sole of his boot . |
| 24 | The sandwiches were quickly followed by the wrath of the Scotland manager , who charged into the bedroom and threw a glass of milk over the startled keeper . |
| 25 | The content of the opinion in each case would have a spin-off effect on people who happen to love football and give a lot of time to watching , playing or training for it . |
| 26 | The Gloucestershire Regiment — shortly to face being amalgamated as part of the Governments defence cuts — wants more young recruits and spending a day with them is one way potential soldiers find out if it 's the life for them . |
| 27 | It offers a firm , well-controlled ride that 's a little noisy at low speed and thumps a bit over potholes , but it 's far from bone-shaking . |
| 28 | As the World Bank noted in its debt tables released this week : ‘ The large foreign debt burden , in conjunction with domestic fiscal crises , continues to feed uncertainties regarding long-term investment and represents a drain on resources . ’ |
| 29 | The SDA has the additional facility to make loans , provide equity investment and establish a range of business services ( Gulliver , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ He helps a lot with kids and does a lot of good work behind the scenes . |