Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Buxton , 41 , swerved snarply across the road when he lifted both his hands off the wheel and ran them through his hair , Didcot magistrates heard . |
| 2 | There are organisations which take a positive approach to creative thinking and build it into their staff development structure by organising creative days or even weeks . |
| 3 | Just fill in this FREEPOST card and return it to us NOW , and we 'll rush your TOTAL COLOUR KIT to you ! |
| 4 | If you accept the terms of this Agreement , please complete and sign the enclosed REGISTRATION CARD and return it to your local distributor ( particulars see below ) . |
| 5 | Across the table , the younger of the two men from Six had already torn up his place card and put it in his pocket as a gesture of security . |
| 6 | Remember to fill in your medical card and place it inside your hat in case of injury . |
| 7 | Margaret Bilney of Cam in Gloucestershire cut her finger one day in 1985 , so she took off her wedding ring and put it in her purse . |
| 8 | I was wearing the King 's ring , but I took off my Rassendyll family ring and gave it to her . |
| 9 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 10 | Sendei obtained one from the dispenser and tossed it to her . |
| 11 | He grasped the purse and thrust it inside his own shirt , under his armpit . |
| 12 | It 's all right , ’ Sarah said , picking up the purse and giving it to her . |
| 13 | He contacted her when he heard of her research into women 's self-defence and invited her to his surgery . |
| 14 | Much of his career in fact seems to have been devoted to Amazon-slaying , but it is significant that if heroes like Heracles represent the revolt of the son against the phallic mother then they also give evidence of their dependency on her when we find our hero forced to don women 's garb and do women 's work as proof of his love for the Lydian queen Omphale , while she wears his lion 's skin , brandishes his club and spanks him with her slipper if his handiwork does not please her . |
| 15 | After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale . |
| 16 | His son Brendan then inherited the seat and kept it until his retirement in 1982 . |
| 17 | When we were going out of the theatre at the end of the pantomime I saw a little lad crawl under the seat and put it in his pocket . |
| 18 | He took out a large photograph and placed it on her knee , taking her cup from her with the same effortless movement . |
| 19 | He had removed the pencil from the jaws of the clothes-peg and held it in his teeth . |
| 20 | He is called upon both to defend his faith against stiff opposition and to spread it among his friends . |
| 21 | She flung the inside door to one side , was about to slam it but changed her mind and closed it behind her in a quiet and controlled manner . |
| 22 | She came towards him , threw her arms around his neck and kissed him on his ruddy moustached face . |
| 23 | She draped it at my neck and sprayed it with her perfume : it still smells faintly of Chanel . |
| 24 | Averages , current form , even physical condition ( puff puff ) are irrelevant with ITB , who has the God-given capacity suddenly to take any game by the scruff of the neck and shape it to his own explosive ends . |
| 25 | Snaking out one strong brown hand , Nathan caught the nape of her neck and hauled her towards him . |
| 26 | Tepilit has pulled his sword out of the lion 's neck and plunges it under its throat again . |
| 27 | The nurse came to the bed to fix it and as she bent her head down the woman threw her left hand round the warm brown neck and pulled it to her . |
| 28 | Gradually he removed his concentration and gave it to me . |
| 29 | He breathed lovingly on the silver and polished it with his sleeve . |
| 30 | He took me in his mouth and carried me to his master . |