Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
| 2 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But still it 's an important paper that sort of broke away from a lot of the traditional thinking and led towards a lot more feminist stuff . |
| 5 | Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer . |
| 6 | Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We realized that decorators were buying our fabric and wallpaper in bulk and asking for a discount , as was available to them with any other brand . ’ |
| 11 | Kato , the masked Japanese fighter , specialises in Kung-Fu deviousness ; Jake ‘ The Snake ’ Roberts slithers around the ring and strikes like a viper . |
| 12 | Some journals give clear feedback and ask for a list of changes if the paper is resubmitted , but this is not true of all . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I leave Darius shuffling in the litter while I ease up to the bedroom and try on a smile like when the pink Panther gets caught in a scrape . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One man , told by his doctor that he had cancer , retreated to his bedroom and wept for a week , refusing to eat and waiting to die . |
| 17 | My hand was as large as a football and throbbed with a pain that extended to the shoulder blade . |
| 18 | The club and its supporters saw themselves as part of the mythical ‘ aristocracy ’ of football but Macari insisted they were out of touch with modern football and embarked on a mission to toughen the team and its image . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Melman told the tale of an American car parts manufacturer where one plant elected to perpetuate Taylorism when it installed computers , and the other agreed ( as a condition of collective bargaining ) to train workers to program , In the first plant , workers were designated ‘ operators ’ and paid $12–50 an hour ; when their machine malfunctions they nip the on-off switch and call in a repairman . |
| 21 | She turned to see a very large handsome man holding out a cardigan and grinning like a Cheshire cat . |
| 22 | The applicant was charged with theft and appeared before a bench of two justices who were unable to agree on a verdict . |
| 23 | During the course of the story Tottle is arrested for theft and taken to a sponging-house , from which he is rescued by Parsons . |
| 24 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 25 | Remarkable song at communal display ground , starting with a resonant rattle and ending with a sound like drawing a cork and pouring liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle , followed by a crashing sound made by scraping wing quills on the ground . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This would maximise total revenue and result in a profit of £100,000 . |
| 28 | Joe and Terry had finished their training and were due to come on leave when Joe was promoted to Lance Corporal and sent on a course , and Terry came home alone . |
| 29 | Hercules is often depicted holding a club and draped with a lion 's hide . |
| 30 | Mortified at what she had done she leapt out of her seat and collided with a waiter , sending the plate of egg fried rice he was carrying flying through the air . |