Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a public right of way for walkers and it continues as a track alongside Loch Coulin , where camera enthusiasts are often fortunate to find a moored rowing boat posing for the foreground of a perfect picture . |
| 2 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 3 | On this occasion , however , his calm appeared to have been ruffled by Dr Dunstaple 's words and he replied with a note of impatience in his voice : " If any evidence were needed it would be enough to see what happens when a weak saline solution is injected into the veins of a patient in the condition of collapse . |
| 4 | The gown slipped soundlessly from her shoulders and she tiptoed like a shadow towards him . |
| 5 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 6 | And then a dim light opened out ahead : their boots crunched on pebbles and they emerged from a small cave whose entrance was uncovered only at the lowest of low tides . |
| 7 | I mean when he was born they laid him on me , he 'd had the cord round his neck three times and he looked like a tortoise with his long neck and this little tiny head [ laughs ] . |
| 8 | You can customise it to your own preferences and it comes with an excellent on-disk manual . |
| 9 | She asked him about the beer kegs and he pointed to a flight of wooden stairs at the end of the hall . |
| 10 | My old man 's a dustman he wears a dustman 's hat he wars cor blimey trousers and he lives in a council flat . |
| 11 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 12 | Richard made the gown I wore to meet Charles and Di at the premiere for The Living Daylights and I felt like a million dollars in it . ’ |
| 13 | Immediately afterwards , Oliver felt himself lifted onto one of the beds and he sank into a deep sleep . |
| 14 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 15 | The Magistrate 's eye moved from one doctor to the other over the passive rows of tattered skeletons and he forgot for a moment that he was as thin and ragged as they were . |
| 16 | Oh yes varied , and there interesting , with , with children , particularly if they erm if I 'm doing workshops er with art and writing workshops and we come across an abstract picture , the children music , and , we , as a way into their vocabulary which is n't as large as their , their writing skills , and there 'll , there 'll decipher an abstract picture , wonderful language and I like doing that you know |
| 17 | There may be as many as 150,000 individuals and they cluster in a vast ball between the roots of a tree or beneath an overhanging stone . |
| 18 | I run into the arms of Andy 's parents walking with the dogs near the ornamental ponds and it seems like an age before I can tell them what 's happened because my voice wo n't work and I can see the fear in their eyes and they 're asking , ‘ Where is Andrew ? |
| 19 | But , almost at the end of the ascent , there came a new series of alarming jerks and they juddered to a halt once more . |
| 20 | Her hair was dressed in a pyramid of fat ringlets and she looked like a Restoration wench , maid to Millamant , scene stealer , fit to be kissed in corners . |
| 21 | Tom squeezed on the reins and they came to a halt . |
| 22 | They also provide us with , and my designers love this I mean they g go over there and they come back and they plaster these things all over , all over their design rooms and it looks like a Paris design house . |
| 23 | It breathes like the millipedes by means of tracheae and it reproduces in a manner reminiscent of those early land invertebrates , the scorpions . |
| 24 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 25 | They sent her to London for elocution lessons and she grew into a lovely young lady . |
| 26 | Often there is a limit on numbers and it works on a first-come-first-served basis . |
| 27 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
| 28 | Their relationship became more and more covert ; he left the police and they moved to a suburb where they ‘ passed for white ’ and began the long struggle called ‘ trying for white ’ . |
| 29 | This made it a no-go area for the Hong Kong police and it developed into a warren of opium dens and criminal hideouts . |
| 30 | A greater than these , or any earlier German composer , was to make his debut with a Primo libro de madrigali ( Venice , 1611 ) , but this 26 year-old pupil of Giovanni Gabrieli , ‘ Henricus Sagittarius ’ ( Henrich Schutz ) , was to work almost entirely in other fields and he belongs to a later |