Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [noun] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drove , a little jerkily until she got more used to the Glory . |
| 2 | ‘ In those days you had Charlie Griffiths chucking them like a 90mph dart and I was bowling slow left arm . |
| 3 | And she goes to me like a silver plate and they just turn it into gold as soon as they walk in there . |
| 4 | Most will usually be able to provide you with a contact name and address , but if this is no help , then you can contact the personnel officer at the district health authority 's address . |
| 5 | Should someone attack you with a tennis racket and you calmly blast them with a shotgun , then you legally become unreasonable . |
| 6 | Certainly when you arrive at the school they are committed by their contract to provide you with a desk office and and telephone facilities for two to three week or the duration of the assignment . |
| 7 | They provide you with a power switch and LED but unless you are really competent at soldering I 'd leave well alone as the instructions are not very clear . |
| 8 | They tie you into a body harness and clamp on ankle straps . |
| 9 | The message here is that romantic cliches may safeguard you from a heart attack and prevent you making a fool of yourself . |
| 10 | Yes , I 've got to come back to you in a minute Fred and I 'll just give you time to think about this . |
| 11 | If you injured or offended them , ’ Thomas turned and pointed to the carvings on the rocky outcrop , a woman with large generous thighs and huge round breasts , ‘ they would put you in a wicker basket and burn you alive , an offering to their Mother Goddess . ’ |
| 12 | Well the argument is that if you receive say a mobility allowance , and if we are laying on transport to get you to a Day Centre and back , maybe five days a week , then the argument is that that 's a fair levy against that allowance . |
| 13 | Not so much by getting them to understand as frightening them with a Breathalyser test and losing their licence . |
| 14 | He rubbed them with a paper napkin and then put them away in his jacket because they seemed ugly in front of this pretty girl . |
| 15 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 16 | ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound . |
| 17 | There are tigers there , and there 's leopards and things called sloth bears , a sort of bear , but they 're actually quite rare so er we did n't see any of those , apart from the rhinos , we went very very quietly crawled under the undergrowth and we saw them in a water hole and they were just bathing there . |
| 18 | ‘ They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum and charged the people a dollar and half just to see them ’ . |
| 19 | She placed them in a casserole dish and then shouted for Piers to come inside and eat . |
| 20 | The assistant put them in a paper bag and Tom handed them to him . |
| 21 | Remove the poussins from the oven , quarter , place them in a serving dish and cover them with foil to keep warm . |
| 22 | Sometimes she would use them on a Sunday morning and I would say : ‘ Well , you ca n't have talked to that many people in Beccles since last night . ’ |
| 23 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 24 | My mother has rung me on a Sunday morning and said oh you had a row last night and I 'd say how do you know oh your father went to paper shop this morning . |
| 25 | To assign them to a calendar scale and determine the sizes of the intervals between them requires absolute dating methods , such as those described above or those based on radioactive decay . |
| 26 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
| 27 | My mother was working class and did n't ever question what happened to her as a cancer patient and the motto I had in the family , in relation to health in particular , was ‘ Do as you 're told ’ . |
| 28 | She knows that by virtue of her position many women see her as a role model and so is happy to give advice when asked for it . |
| 29 | The Indians regarded him as a medicine man and his apple-tree enthusiasm , odd clothing and religious devotion — he distributed religious tracts torn in parts for widespread circulation — started many folktales . |
| 30 | With that deceptively loose-limbed walk , he ambled towards her , and Hilary tried to picture him as a property developer and failed . |