Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drivers of both groups said that drunken passengers were a problem : they ‘ messed about ’ in the car , grabbed the steering wheel and pulled on the handbrake . |
| 2 | The jeep continued to bounce and surge along the rutted , forlorn track that led , Robyn prayed , to the barn and to help , for several more minutes , while she gripped the wheel and perched on the edge of her seat , peering through the rain for any signs of civilisation . |
| 3 | They are not to be looked at in isolation and followed to the letter , but if you 're not sure about style , they will give you some useful ideas . |
| 4 | A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday . |
| 5 | But the residents resisted and formed themselves into a community association and negotiated with the council to save their homes . |
| 6 | Father-of-three Sam never forgot her kindness and popped in every day for FORTY YEARS to chat and do odd jobs . |
| 7 | In the day the pineal creates and stores a chemical called serotonin , and during the night this is converted into melatonin and released into the bloodstream . |
| 8 | He said nothing about the road being blocked behind us , or the man he had flushed out of the mist-shrouded mountainside and forced over the edge into the gorge below . |
| 9 | Subsequently Clough Williams-Ellis bought the handsome inn outside the gates of Attingham , Shropshire , which he renamed the Mytton and Mermaid and promoted as a staging post for guests en route to Portmeirion . |
| 10 | When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash . |
| 11 | The TAGH solution ( 9 ml ) was made up fresh at the time of the experiment and infused by the tail vein from 20 ml hyperdermic syringes mounted in horizontal syringe pumps set to deliver 3 ml/h . |
| 12 | Only a week later I was noticed by a scout and engaged for a pantomime in Manchester , to play the Princess in Jack and the Beanstalk . |
| 13 | 3 H Labelled 25-hydroxyvitamin D 3 added before extraction and determined in the effluent from the HPLC column , served to correct for losses and differences in injection volumes . |
| 14 | If the ring had not captured and ruined Gollum 's mind , he would never have been overcome by desire of it and hence he would not have snatched the Ring and fallen into the Cracks of Doom , the only place the Ring can be destroyed . |
| 15 | There entrepreneurs identified the existence of a seller 's market just waiting to be developed , and created their own demand , which gathered its own momentum and benefited from a snowball effect . |
| 16 | The South is not a classless society , but its class nature has been well hidden in consciousness and dominated by the procedures of the capitalist-democratic process . |
| 17 | He checked himself as he was about to kick the chair out of the way then walked slowly to the bedroom and slumped onto the bed . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've put Mr Trumper 's things in the bedroom and checked over the flat . |
| 19 | Humming to himself , he went back into the bedroom and put on a pair of grey corduroy trousers , a red shirt and a bright turquoise jumper , stained with food . |
| 20 | ’ Doyle went back to the bedroom and sorted through the case . |
| 21 | The higher the premium is on conversion then the more the issue will be treated as a fixed interest investment and valued on a yield basis , with attention given to the financial strength of the issuing company and the number of times the interest/dividend payment is covered by available profits . |
| 22 | He turned off the main light switch and put on the bedside lamp , and against the lamp he propped an old brown photograph . |
| 23 | The First Vice President thanked the President and called upon the assembly to receive the Address with acclaim . |
| 24 | The federal judiciary in the United States is nominated by the President and appointed with the consent of the Senate . |
| 25 | A question to the effect ‘ Have you any other licence for this vehicle or have you ever passed a Ministry of Transport test for this vehicle ? ’ can be put to the defendant and entered in the officer 's statement of evidence together with the negative reply . |
| 26 | During the course of the story Tottle is arrested for theft and taken to a sponging-house , from which he is rescued by Parsons . |
| 27 | When Barracouta 's captain died in 1823 Vidal was placed in command and confirmed in the rank of commander . |
| 28 | Details of the assaults , which were compiled by the US Army Criminal Investigation Command and reported in the press on July 21 , showed that , as had been the case in the Tailhook incident , the military authorities had discouraged victims from lodging official complaints and had shown a reluctance to investigate in instances where an official complaint had been filed . |
| 29 | A documentary credit is issued by the importer 's bank in favour of the exporter and forwarded to a bank in the exporter 's country for payment . |
| 30 | Remove tacking and cut off the selvedge . |