Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
| 2 | Add orange zest and chestnuts and saute for a couple of minutes . |
| 3 | Some journals give clear feedback and ask for a list of changes if the paper is resubmitted , but this is not true of all . |
| 4 | Fully developed hedgehogs can grow to a length of around 225mm and weigh between a half and one kilo . |
| 5 | I leave Darius shuffling in the litter while I ease up to the bedroom and try on a smile like when the pink Panther gets caught in a scrape . |
| 6 | Melman told the tale of an American car parts manufacturer where one plant elected to perpetuate Taylorism when it installed computers , and the other agreed ( as a condition of collective bargaining ) to train workers to program , In the first plant , workers were designated ‘ operators ’ and paid $12–50 an hour ; when their machine malfunctions they nip the on-off switch and call in a repairman . |
| 7 | On the Waterfront and Rebel without a Cause had appeared in 1954 and 1955 , starring Marlon Brando and James Dean respectively , and I had fallen for them both . |
| 8 | The Gascon led Corbett and Ranulf through a maze of corridors which led out to the back of the palace , across a deserted dusty yard into one of the large outbuildings there . |
| 9 | This would maximise total revenue and result in a profit of £100,000 . |
| 10 | It was agreed by Mrs Buckingham , who had always resisted the false belief about the pain in her daughter 's back , that Harriet should stop lying around on the hall seat and go to a school founded in the 1840S for the further education of gentlewomen . |
| 11 | Such control will promote tight intra-system nutrient cycling and obviate to a degree the need for artificial fertilisers . |
| 12 | There are also plans for an Evening Bus Run with High Tea and Dance at a west coast venue on a date to be arranged in June . |
| 13 | But before that she would make a cup of tea and read for a bit . |
| 14 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 15 | I enjoyed my tea and glimpse into a way of life that would have been familiar to JTR . |
| 16 | Mix the solutions and cover with a coverslip . |
| 17 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 18 | Detectives found group members would buy written-off cars and arrange for a vehicle of the same make and model to be stolen from Teesside , Humberside or North Yorkshire . |
| 19 | Yesterday West Yorkshire officers advised women to stay in their cars and wait for a patrol if they break down . |
| 20 | Once set , pop out of the trays and transfer to a polythene bag . |
| 21 | Glad of our meeting in Vancouver and hope for a reunion in New York , Moscow , Samarkand or the Volga ’ . |
| 22 | Who wants to count calories and munch on a piece of dry toast at such a time ? |
| 23 | Sleeving kits are sold by the kite shops and consist of a length of Dacron coreless ( hollow ) braid , a piece of thin wire and basic instructions . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're going down to Redland Bay to have dinner on his boat and go for a sail , ’ she invented fluently . |
| 25 | And in the absence of a village bobby , it 's hoped the voluntary wardens will be able to help the community fight crime and act as a link with the police . |
| 26 | The mixture of an SD1 engine , Range Rover flywheel and exhaust in a Range Rover does not give you the power that you might expect , so be careful when mixing engine components such as flywheels , camshafts , distributor and carbs from different engine applications . |
| 27 | In an emergency , it will take a short cut and plunge across a patch of land that it never normally enters in order to reach the safely of a bolt-hole . |
| 28 | He would not have disagreed either with the implications about the unfairness of Providence ; we should note that a recurrent prospect in The Lord of the Rings is for Frodo to be taken by Sauron and tormented till he too goes ‘ under the shadow ’ , becomes a petty ‘ wraith ’ himself , worn out by addiction and privation and torture and fear to a state of nothingness like that of ‘ the haggard king ’ of Minas Morgul . |
| 29 | He had left his regiment ( to his father 's exasperated disgust ) to learn about bloodstock and work for a while for a not over-reputable Irish trainer . |
| 30 | I barely hold back a hurrah , but can not stop myself from doing a backwards roll during which everything seems to go into slomo and clarify like a TV closeup : my backward roll begins , the picture outside the window slowly slips downward . |