Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Through the raindrops which were snail-trailing across my visor as I accelerated , I could see a marshal on the start/finish line flapping his yellow flag at me and screwing a finger at his temple . |
2 | A powerful electric current would pass through me and launch a surge of excitement : something wonderful awaited me . |
3 | On the way out a visiting French person saw me and poked a finger at the shirt . |
4 | Suddenly a young man wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet rushed up behind me and stuck a revolver in the security guard 's face . |
5 | He flung it back , missed me and knocked a motto off the wall . |
6 | It all started when a man called Frank Somers wrote to me and enclosed a photograph of himself and his wife Pauline and their little girl called Hayley . |
7 | There 's work to be done in the world — so much to be found out — ’ He checked himself abruptly , lifted his glass at me and took a sip from it . |
8 | ‘ You 're welcome to walk back home with Will and me and have a cup of tea for your trouble . ’ |
9 | And then she will take a few days off from seeing anybody except me and do a bit of work . |
10 | In this case the plaintiffs , a firm of estate agents , were employed by the defendants to find for them and to negotiate a lease of office and shop accommodation . |
11 | They were built with me in mind and I liked them and got a couple from Fender . |
12 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
13 | ‘ The trouble is people take one look at them and stick a label on you . |
14 | Even if he was less transgressive than the more notorious Ranters Coppe and Laurence Clarkson [ q.v. ] , he was associated with them and expressed a form of their Antinomianism at the height of Ranter activity . |
15 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
16 | Visitors can not enter the docks without a permit , but Cross Bank Road passes between them and offers a glimpse of their warehouse buildings and activity . |
17 | The khthons had untied them and left a torch before locking the dungeon door . |
18 | As part of the improved conditions Bilal 's partner started taking us through the kitchen once or twice a week to sit with them and get a bit of sun . |
19 | Well now , a lot of people will have missed them and heard a lot about them today , is there any chance at all that they 'll appear again tonight ? |
20 | A white-haired man limped ahead of them and opened a door at the rear of the room . |
21 | They are the rules which enable members to choose between possible modes of conduct available to them and to maintain a sense of propriety and social legitimacy . |
22 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
23 | A well-known example is the micro gallery at the National Gallery 's new Sainsbury Wing , where visitors can see high quality reproductions of the pictures , learn more about them and plan a route through the rooms . |
24 | I 'll keep an eye out for them and have a word with them . |
25 | Place a plate on top of them and put a weight on the plate . |
26 | But Sam , taking advantage of the momentary silence , leaped between them and grabbed a hand of each . |
27 | Firefighters who arrived to tackle the blaze in Nuneaton Street , Dalmarnock , had to summon police protection when youths harassed them and stole a radio from a tender . |
28 | Ollokot overtook them and joined a group of warriors in resisting Captain Benteen 's attempt to outflank the fleeing families . |
29 | If you discover some wonderful patterns or general algebraic relationships hidden in the structure of the problem it can be very tempting to steer pupils towards them and generate a feeling of disappointment if they do not get there . |
30 | If you 've got travel agents round every street corner then it 's very easy simply to walk into them and buy a package on the spot . |