Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Besides all this Tristan learned to ride nimbly with shield and lance , to spur his mount skilfully on either flank , put it to the gallop with dash , wheel and give it free rein and urge it on with his knees , in strict accordance with the chivalric art . |
| 2 | The van was impounded and SL2 had to hire a car on their Visa card and make their own way to the rave — which had been cancelled ! |
| 3 | Once you feel on top of this example sequence , experiment and find your own applications . |
| 4 | A bored or lonely horse may become so neurotic , that it chases itself around in circles , and in extreme cases may even bite its own legs and savage its own sides until they are raw and bleeding . |
| 5 | Prices start at around £45 so why not give Dave a ring and get your favourite guitar made in miniature . |
| 6 | After a long rather awful ordeal , the three children escape from the rule of Dr Adams and rejoin their true families . |
| 7 | Moreover , Noorda must finally set up a line of succession and give us some indication of how Novell ( and Unix ) will function when he bows out . |
| 8 | I distance myself from the position and the policy of the President and advocate his immediate resignation [ and ] the handing over of power to a collective body , the Federation Council . " |
| 9 | The Tanzanian government bas designated the Serengeti a national park , in an effort to protect the animals and conserve their natural habitat . |
| 10 | She wanted to see it before it was touched ; wanted to meet its open eyes and fix its dead expression ; know it , for memory 's sake . |
| 11 | It had survived the squeezing and pushing and pulling , the drugs and the pain , protected by its ignorance , it had survived to blink its grey eyes and wave its underwater hands , and turn its small blind mouth instinctively to her nipple , seeking food with the determined accuracy of an animal that intended to live . |
| 12 | Many people I know deplore the digging of these cant quarries and call them ugly eyesores and the rape of the country . |
| 13 | Everyone has to make up their own mind and define their own position with respect to the revolution and maternity . |
| 14 | As they moved around the room , Luke introducing her to the people with whom she would be working , Maria struggled to put his threats out of her mind and minimise her own reaction to him , both six years ago and now . |
| 15 | When things get bad enough , he says , the nation will find a new reformer and swallow his bitter medicine . |
| 16 | ‘ If you call the police or the ambulance I 'm going to put this fun in your mouth and blow your fucking head off . ’ |
| 17 | He referred to plans to develop social programmes and infrastructure projects as a ‘ vision that I hope will sustain Hong Kong during the present period of uncertainty and give us all confidence in our ability to overcome whatever problems confront us ’ . |
| 18 | I want to show I can succeed at a bigger club in the future and fulfil my footballing ambitions . |
| 19 | Mary Hume-Rothery , for example , stressed that the sexual oppression of poor women brought to light by the acts was all the more reason to give women the vote and extend their educational provision , so that they could exercise formal political power . |
| 20 | The only way to write well for an instrument and exploit its full potentials is to know it intimately well . |
| 21 | Once on a committee , a backbencher is relatively safe and select committees have been known to reject government suggestions as to suitable subjects and go their own way . |
| 22 | The reader has to supply all the missing subjects and create his/her own chains of reference . |
| 23 | You must observe ES policies on equal opportunities and give your full commitment to any measures introduced to ensure equality of opportunity . |
| 24 | Similarly , a solicitor overseas may practice in corporate form with foreign lawyers , whether RFLs or not , unless the corporate practice also wishes to practise in England and Wales , in which case the corporate practice would need to be an RB and have its registered office in England and Wales . |
| 25 | But the hearer still has to act on this indication and find which particular farmer is thereby being referred to . |
| 26 | And , when she retires , she will finally get over her hatred of betting shops and indulge her uncanny ability to pick racing winners . |
| 27 | The police searched surrounding buildings and then asked some staff to return to shops and begin their own search . |
| 28 | She was very brave , he thought , to wear the sari and shop in the Indian shops and have her Bengali lessons when all these things drew attention to her . |
| 29 | He would then marry her and return with her to Venezuela , where he would return his hire car and take his new wife to his humble home . |
| 30 | These answers should not be viewed as the ‘ right answer ’ and we would suggest that wherever possible the students are encouraged to use their own words and find their own examples as this will enhance their learning immeasurably . |