Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Help the Stroke Association and enter a competition at the same time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So one of your responses would be to bring in the privatization card and put a lot of this out to tender ? |
| 6 | He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse . |
| 7 | ‘ Customers are getting a raw deal and have a right to be angry . |
| 8 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The hot summer days did n't deter this reader from digging his own pond and creating a haven in his town garden |
| 11 | CAP is a prokaryotic sequence-specific protein which is known to bind to DNA as a dimer and to induce a bend in DNA . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The men in the smithy seized him ; and one of them took a hammer and drove a nail into the sole of his boot . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | The SDA has the additional facility to make loans , provide equity investment and establish a range of business services ( Gulliver , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Authorative first crime novel from a woman so obsessed with violent crime that she gave up crime reporting and got a job in the morgue |
| 21 | He flapped his warrant card in automatic greeting and waved a hand at Catherine who had also got out of the car . |
| 22 | Athelstan fished in his purse and flicked a penny at the young man . |
| 23 | Shelton points out that handling is a more serious offence than theft and has a maximum of 14 years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | Just as exposure to syphilis causes eye problems , so can it affect the eighth cranial ( auditory ) nerve and cause a degree of deafness . |
| 25 | Victorin Hameni Bieleu , a leading member of the opposition , said that many parties believed that the RDPC would take complete control of the Assembly as a result and predicted a boycott of the elections " if things continue like this " . |
| 26 | Tacking and fitting a garment of this kind is always useful and then you can simply backstitch or mattress seam the edges . |
| 27 | An objective criterion is a typically social construct and presupposes a degree of inter-subjective understanding and cooperation . |
| 28 | She highlighted Juliana 's cheekbones with a pinky brown blusher and added a hint of warm tawny colour to her lips . |
| 29 | In 1988 an Alabama jury convicted 15-year-old Clayton Flowers of capital murder and recommended a sentence of life in prison without parole . |
| 30 | When the jack appeared from East , declarer ruffed a club and ruffed a heart in dummy . |