Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 2 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
| 3 | This practical 2-day course highlights the risks and provides you with the knowledge to contain them . |
| 4 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 5 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 6 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Hang 'em , burn 'em , torture 'em , throw 'em to the wolves , cut off their ears and nail 'em to the notice board , ’ shouted a particularly excited worshipper . |
| 8 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 9 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 10 | It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire . |
| 11 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 12 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 13 | Piquet 's 200 mph crash nearly took off his legs and left him with a limp for life . |
| 14 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 15 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 16 | It is quite commonplace for me to thrust my hand past my ferrets , grab a rabbit by its hind legs and pull it past the ferret . |
| 17 | This guy , yeah , he falls in love with this woman , takes her to his apartment and slowly , he 's a surgeon and he slowly amputates all her arms and legs and keeps her in a box . |
| 18 | Then suddenly he thrust his head between his owner 's legs and hoisted him into the trough with a resounding splash ! |
| 19 | After going to his parents ' home at about 5am , Abram , who had earlier been out drinking in the nearby Valkaries pub , washed his blood stained trainers and dried them in the microwave oven , it was claimed . |
| 20 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | A digital television immediately decodes the incoming sound and picture signals and converts them into an 8-bit digital code . |
| 22 | Must go back to the kids and see them to the bus . |
| 23 | The law student learns much of his or her law from decided cases , public attention is inevitably focused upon the adversarial contest , civil and criminal procedure is lengthy and complex , books on the English legal system ( including ours ) devote a considerable amount of space to litigation , and procedure tends to individualise grievances and tailor them to the adversarial model . |
| 24 | But in order to understand the problems faced in accounting theory students must often look to the literature on business organizations and apply it to the public sector context , albeit with great caution and common sense . |
| 25 | Apparently , they consider that their responsibilities end when they have unpacked their baggage of trophies from the record offices and arranged them in a convincing pattern . |
| 26 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 27 | Hall takes a Schumpeterian view of long waves and translates it into a geographical context . |
| 28 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 29 | Franca had once seen a film of a burial at sea , how the coffin slid with a curious slowness down toward the waves and entered them without a splash . |
| 30 | It is also the centre of a men-only pilgrimage in February , when local farmers bring in handfuls of hair cut from the tails of their animals and burn them before the sanctuary as an offering to St Blaise , as the patron saint of stock-breeders . |