Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some galleries are long , like those at Yew Tree and Monk Coniston , where a great ( or walking ) spinning wheel could be used , the spinner requiring space to draw her thread away from the great wheel and , turning , to reverse the wheel and walk back to wind the spun yarn on the bobbin . |
| 2 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 3 | With a brisk nod Polly relinquished the wheel and dived down the companionway . |
| 4 | At each barge they ran down boarding planks for us , sat us on a long bench by the wheel and set about producing tea . |
| 5 | One of the young men at the rear of the little procession tugged at his rein and made to wheel and ride out of the wood . |
| 6 | Every now and then he lifted a finger off the wheel and pointed out some famous bridge or statue or museum . |
| 7 | She dropped the sponge and stood up , lost in concentration , her mouth slack , as all the sickening implications of this sudden thought bulldozed their way into her brain . |
| 8 | The thrice-married father-of-seven now wears a blonde wig and struts around in high heels and slinky skirts . |
| 9 | Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe . |
| 10 | I will report to His Majesty and come back to him . " |
| 11 | I went to association and came in with me to see the place and to meet the outgoing director and the nice part time secretary . |
| 12 | He was also chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and pointed out to the proprietor of the Daily Mail the danger of damaging democracy through a last minute election stunt story . |
| 13 | They have to let go of their rationality , of their interminable thinking and bothering over everything . |
| 14 | I came round to her way of thinking and handed over the Visa card . |
| 15 | By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli . |
| 16 | Consequently , I would like to suggest the following working distinction : learning refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that come about either through direct imitation of others , or as a conditioned response to punishments and rewards ; invention refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that result from internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems ( though acknowledging that such processes are influenced by the individual 's experience ) . |
| 17 | In the previous subsection I distinguished invention from learning by stressing the extent to which the former involves internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems . |
| 18 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals , ’ he said . |
| 20 | This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna . |
| 21 | It is a wonderful way of assuring the presence of core stock and building up stock in Dillons stores . |
| 22 | William Tanner finished tidying up the small warehouse stock and sat down to await the van which was due . |
| 23 | So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 . |
| 24 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 25 | KILLER and GET UP AND BE SOMEBODY . |
| 26 | Having found out how much money the client has to spend , the producer must study the creative team 's script and storyboard and work out whether it can be made for the money available . |
| 27 | So I took my card and went in I thought well I 'll pay for this by , by cheque |
| 28 | Terry sent her a card and wrote on back , all my love Terry . |
| 29 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 30 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |