Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 2 | Maitland to be asked to circulate a copy of the draft Minute of Agreement to Christian Aid and SCIAF before the next meeting so that this can be looked at . |
| 3 | But City are prone to concede goals in the last quarter of an hour and bang on the 75th minute the impressive young Dodd fed a wonderful 30-yard pass to Rod Wallace , who held off two defenders to equalise . |
| 4 | At the time I wondered how any improvements could be visual , when I learnt that players could ignore March winds and appear on the 1st tee in shirt and slacks . |
| 5 | Turn left from the entrance and wait on the first corner . |
| 6 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 7 | Or chortle and wait for the next T-shirt ? |
| 8 | Greenough and colleagues showed that preterm babies who did not require respiratory support had a high prevalence of wheeze and cough in the first year of life . |
| 9 | A fitting finale — and summons to the Last Judgement , be ye Saint or Sinner . |
| 10 | So can we just ignore that for the moment and focus on the first sheet deliberately |
| 11 | List all your good points , i.e. determination etc , and focus on the next race . |
| 12 | As you 'll notice when you play this , it 's actually the same phrase or ‘ motif ’ taken up through 3 octaves using 3 Pentatonic positions on the fretboard ; we start in the 3rd position and finish in the 10th position . |
| 13 | Ever demonstrative , Markus Stenz clearly aimed at the dramatic in Beethoven 's Symphony No4 and digging deep , uncovered hidden orchestral reserves bringing a satisfying degree of tension and thrill to the first movement . |
| 14 | Whether Drake was the first person to introduce potatoes to Britain is a matter of debate , but they certainly came to this country as stores aboard the ships which sailed to South America on missions of pillage and plunder in the 16th Century . |
| 15 | Open the glass fronted cupboard on the left-hand side and look on the fourth shelf from the top . |
| 16 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 17 | IT was claps , crackles and pop at the first night of a new comedy venue in Darlington . |
| 18 | Even today there are those who have doubts about the great burst of prosperity and splendour in the first half of the fourth century manifest in the great villas . |
| 19 | Spray it and jump to the next ledge and grab the extra life . |
| 20 | Rip it into tiny pieces and throw it at the bride and groom at the next wedding you see . |
| 21 | Now for God 's sake let's go to the airport and get on the next flight home . ’ |
| 22 | It would be great to bounce back from a temporary aberration and get into the Third Division . |
| 23 | Lopsided and vulnerable , he tried to climb the barrage and get to the second balloon . |
| 24 | [ J. M. Price , France and the Chesapeake , 2 vols. , 1973 ; Charles Wilson , Anglo-Dutch Commerce and Finance in the Eighteenth Century , 1941 . ] |
| 25 | I fetch water — an easy job , just grab a kettle , head for the cliffs and fill from the first stream you fall in — and offer it to Tor . |
| 26 | Thicker lines are no guarantee of invulnerability , as they can be weakened by a partial cut and snap at the next pull ; equally , they are more expensive ! |
| 27 | A mock battle ensued — at least , she hoped it was mock — then the pair went racing soundlessly off to push the unlatched communicating door ajar and disappear into the next room . |
| 28 | In a simple case , where your seller 's solicitor is at a considerable distance , or where there is perhaps already an examined abstract or epitome of the greater part of the title , you may postpone this examination until immediately before completion , in which case strike this item out of your pre-completion agenda and rely on the first item of your completion agenda . |
| 29 | Gary 's neat and composed approach was enjoyed by the discerning fans but some Palace supporters found it difficult to accept this refined talent in the hustle and bustle of the Second Division of the mid-1980s . |
| 30 | And I 'm going to talk about , and make do and mend in the second world war . |