Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We recovered our manners and began a series of , ‘ Thank yous ’ , and , ‘ You are a good man , Mahmoud ’ , and , within seconds , Terry had it tuned to the BBC World Service and its theme , ‘ Lili Bolero ’ . |
| 2 | The girl smiled shyly up at the big man behind the wheel and got a friendly grin in return . |
| 3 | In the North , in the Democratic Republic , the army shed all guerrilla characteristics and became a professional force . |
| 4 | ONLY SINEAD O'Connor could put together a seemingly uncontroversial , fun thing like a collection of cover versions of old standards and torch songs and put a speech at the end of it that questions the very foundations and ethics of the Catholic Church . |
| 5 | The trip was arranged by the Musselburgh Twinning Association and followed a similar exchange last year when seven teachers from Musselburgh and Wallyford went to France . |
| 6 | I touched my swollen lips and my ears and had a roll-call of my limbs , but apart from my hand , an incipient black eye and a few abrasions there was n't much evidence of my encounter with Russian free enterprise and Soviet cavalry . |
| 7 | He went into an off-licence and bought a large bottle of Bell 's . |
| 8 | The first dedicated fax card I used was the JTFax , which was purely a fax card and lacked a data modem . |
| 9 | Noel Park 's model was made from corrugated card and had a drawbridge and four towers , two with staircases and two with ramps . |
| 10 | He found one that took money rather than a card and dialled a number . |
| 11 | He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse . |
| 12 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |
| 13 | It would be unfortunate if you generalized a great deal and delivered a speech which could have been given at anybody 's wedding , when the bride and groom have fascinating family histories . |
| 14 | He stuck his arm out of the open side of the jeep and stamped a big boot on the brake . |
| 15 | She had not thought to have Ariel set her whole spine on a splint , so when , after three months , Sycorax raised herself and found her weak legs and took a few steps , her whole weight slung against Ariel on one side and Jack Elsey on the other , she was bent like a hoop and could only shuffle forward , raising her head , like a turtle poking out of its shell , to address anyone who was not actually on the floor below her . |
| 16 | She washed and dried herself between the legs and inserted a fresh tampon . |
| 17 | Springsteen circled my legs and howled a bad-tempered welcome as I opened the purple — yes , purple — envelope . |
| 18 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 19 | But he kept his composure in front of 2,000 excited Chinese fans and delighted a TV audience of more than 100 million with his last frame victory . |
| 20 | After scoring his spectacular debut goal , Pollock ran over towards Middlesbrough 's travelling fans and did a somersault . |
| 21 | Reuter adds from Washington : President George Bush yesterday angrily denounced followers of Gen Aoun and said a partition of Lebanon would be totally unacceptable to the world community . |
| 22 | A DAYTIME burglar struck a home in Four Marks on Tuesday and stole a quantity of jewellery . |
| 23 | These soldiers were generally known as Brabançons , but sometimes as Navarrese or Basques or Germans , not so much to indicate their precise place of origin as to express the fact that they were foreigners and spoke a language which was not understood . |
| 24 | It was Sayeeda who gave me an insatiable desire to open the doors of Oman , doors which were locked to most foreigners and needed a special key . |
| 25 | It was not Dubroca 's fault that the story gathered momentum and became a headline in the English-speaking media for nearly two weeks while the World Cup bandwagon was still rolling on . |
| 26 | The men in the smithy seized him ; and one of them took a hammer and drove a nail into the sole of his boot . |
| 27 | Edward Ryman , 58 , twice smashed his wife with a club hammer and used a ‘ do it yourself garotte ’ to strangle her , Nottingham Crown Court was told . |
| 28 | The sandwiches were quickly followed by the wrath of the Scotland manager , who charged into the bedroom and threw a glass of milk over the startled keeper . |
| 29 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 30 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |