Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our young people deserve honesty from ourselves and have a right to it from the Church . |
| 2 | The man in the cradle was whistling to himself and coiling a length of rope . |
| 3 | According to his professor , he was thorough and conscientious rather than brilliant , taking his studies very seriously since he wanted both to improve himself and gain a qualification for when he finished playing . |
| 4 | ‘ Looks like an Easter egg , ’ murmured Busacher to himself and heard a snort behind him . |
| 5 | What is wrong with the solipsist 's language is not that there is no community to control it ; Robinson Crusoe can talk to himself and keep a diary on his desert island . |
| 6 | Brian Say , 44 , of Craigmuir Croft , Ythanbank , near Ellon , was charged with conducting himself in a disorderly manner at his home while in possession of a loaded shotgun between 15 and 17 February , repeatedly threatening to shoot himself and committing a breach of the peace . |
| 7 | Say , 44 , of Craigmuir Croft , Ythanbank , near Ellon , appeared from custody and admitted conducting himself in a disorderly manner at his home while in possession of a loaded shotgun between 15 and 17 February , repeatedly threatening to shoot himself and committing a breach of the peace . |
| 8 | A stack of OHP foils , on the other hand , can be run off on your laser printer for virtually nothing and have a number of significant advantages . |
| 9 | Through the raindrops which were snail-trailing across my visor as I accelerated , I could see a marshal on the start/finish line flapping his yellow flag at me and screwing a finger at his temple . |
| 10 | A powerful electric current would pass through me and launch a surge of excitement : something wonderful awaited me . |
| 11 | On the way out a visiting French person saw me and poked a finger at the shirt . |
| 12 | Suddenly a young man wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet rushed up behind me and stuck a revolver in the security guard 's face . |
| 13 | He flung it back , missed me and knocked a motto off the wall . |
| 14 | It all started when a man called Frank Somers wrote to me and enclosed a photograph of himself and his wife Pauline and their little girl called Hayley . |
| 15 | There 's work to be done in the world — so much to be found out — ’ He checked himself abruptly , lifted his glass at me and took a sip from it . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're welcome to walk back home with Will and me and have a cup of tea for your trouble . ’ |
| 17 | And then she will take a few days off from seeing anybody except me and do a bit of work . |
| 18 | In this case the plaintiffs , a firm of estate agents , were employed by the defendants to find for them and to negotiate a lease of office and shop accommodation . |
| 19 | They were built with me in mind and I liked them and got a couple from Fender . |
| 20 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 21 | ‘ The trouble is people take one look at them and stick a label on you . |
| 22 | Even if he was less transgressive than the more notorious Ranters Coppe and Laurence Clarkson [ q.v. ] , he was associated with them and expressed a form of their Antinomianism at the height of Ranter activity . |
| 23 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 24 | Visitors can not enter the docks without a permit , but Cross Bank Road passes between them and offers a glimpse of their warehouse buildings and activity . |
| 25 | The khthons had untied them and left a torch before locking the dungeon door . |
| 26 | As part of the improved conditions Bilal 's partner started taking us through the kitchen once or twice a week to sit with them and get a bit of sun . |
| 27 | Well now , a lot of people will have missed them and heard a lot about them today , is there any chance at all that they 'll appear again tonight ? |
| 28 | A white-haired man limped ahead of them and opened a door at the rear of the room . |
| 29 | They are the rules which enable members to choose between possible modes of conduct available to them and to maintain a sense of propriety and social legitimacy . |
| 30 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |