Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 2 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 3 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 4 | In the car , my colleague put his elbow on the wheel and drove with his chin cupped in his hands . |
| 5 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 6 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 7 | The second had primary biliary cirrhosis and died from a variceal bleed while under review . |
| 8 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 9 | By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door . |
| 10 | The seminar is being organised by WACC 's North American regional association and hosted by The United Church of Canada under the theme ‘ Legacy : 500 Years of Evangelization in the Americas ’ . |
| 11 | May I urge each and everyone of you to show support and consideration to all your colleagues and to the Society , be positive in your thinking and openminded in your views . |
| 12 | But still it 's an important paper that sort of broke away from a lot of the traditional thinking and led towards a lot more feminist stuff . |
| 13 | His seeking for single solutions coarsened his thinking and sank into abstraction . |
| 14 | The boy blushed to his ears and owned to it . |
| 15 | She put her hands over her ears and walked along the beach , to sit up in the sand dunes , where Gazzer found her … . |
| 16 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 17 | The doctor , still chatting away , put her stethoscope in her ears and listened to Phoebe 's chest and heart , then had her sit up and tapped her back . |
| 18 | She threw her arms round the horse 's neck and in return , it flicked its ears and snickered with pleasure . |
| 19 | Fiver looked as though he were about to speak , but then shook his ears and turned to nibbling at a dandelion . |
| 20 | Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer . |
| 21 | Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer . |
| 22 | To determine the origin of the cloned IRS-PCR products , amplification products were used as probes and hybridized to Sfi I partially digested GM06318 DNA ; all 7 products tested hybridized to a fragment between 600 and 670 kb in size and multiple smaller fragments ( data not shown ) . |
| 23 | Nanny 's mother was of French stock and lived in Calais , and her father came from Bishop 's Waltham , a village in Hampshire . |
| 24 | Possibly the Edinburgh-Glasgow push-pull trains represented the sector 's highest quality product , being formed of Mark 3 stock and powered by smart and newly overhauled Class 47/7 locomotives . |
| 25 | Just look at the success that German Shepherd breeders had when they methodically examined their breeding stock and bred from those with the best hips . |
| 26 | Four years later he left the house of William Pickering and moved to Cable Street , Liverpool . |
| 27 | Angelica took the card and looked at it . |
| 28 | Benedict took the card and glanced at the name . |
| 29 | Miguel took the card and wrote on it what had been done for Samantha . |
| 30 | Duncan Smith , prosecuting , said the two men were unhappy with the business deal and went to Mr Hawthorne 's home with a crowbar and a handgun . |