Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a pair [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub . |
| 2 | Reported to include a pair of airworthy Skyraiders , along with a collection of 26 restorable aircraft , plus a large aero engine collection , spares holdings , automobiles , tools and equipment , this must be one of the largest ‘ one man ’ collections to come under the hammer in recent years . |
| 3 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 4 | The Tropical House was designed to exhibit a pair of American Alligators and a large collection of plants from the warmer regions of the world . |
| 5 | Physically , two photons with frequency are scattered to form a pair of photons at , so the process is termed four-wave mixing . |
| 6 | Well , you do n't need to leave a pair of scissors in there , cos . |
| 7 | Then we tried to get a pair of shoes , also a standard model . |
| 8 | Back at the Ritzy queues are forming around the block , and one of the production team has spotted a pair of diehard Hitman fans in the queue . |
| 9 | The Beaver 's 144 cubicfoot interior is divided into a two-seat cockpit and slightly lower 120 cubic-foot four-footwide 52 inch-high main cabin , in which Tony has fitted a pair of three-seat benches , the middle row having a split folding back for easy access to the rear ones . |
| 10 | She had several pairs of sunglasses , perks of Gillman 's , but she had forgotten to bring a pair with her . |
| 11 | Over his shoulder I 'd seen a pair of beat coppers walking by . |
| 12 | There 's a poster up in erm , and these two people that are drug addicts , and said like , did you see that I 'd drawn a pair of ears on one of them , turned around and seen Shane and he 's like his mate was the other one , were n't it ? |
| 13 | Yes , it is difficult to believe that before Sly Stallone was blasting out showers of bullets , he was at one time more likely to be seen wielding a pair of scissors and blowing hot and cold with a hairdryer . |
| 14 | To attract the birds a mealworm was placed in the centre of the box and then , as the bird alighted to attack the mealworm , the box was illuminated to reveal a pair of eye-spots or some other pattern . |
| 15 | She thought she 'd married a pair of muscular , sheltering arms and what she 'd got was a snivelling kid still frightened of Mummy . |
| 16 | I would like to include a pair of Clowns , one or possibly two Mandarins and a Dwarf Angel . |
| 17 | It never seemed to enter their minds that someone might like to buy a pair of trousers from Sex and a shirt from somewhere else . |
| 18 | And he was shown wearing a pair of collosal flared jeans that left one simply astonished . |
| 19 | Secondly , I love cichlids and I 'd like to keep a pair of Flag cichlids and/or Severums . |
| 20 | I 'd like to have a pair of boots like a German officer . |
| 21 | I would n't have known myself , but I happen to have a pair of ears in that establishment . |
| 22 | Imagine Plenty , then , when the Alice Liddell arrived ferrying a pair of cabaret artistes , as a giant paralysed space habitat under makeshift redevelopment . |
| 23 | They booked into a guesthouse on the far side of Warminster , and they had time to get into the High Street before the shops closed to buy Erlich a pair of wellington boots , and a rainproof coat that was n't so City , and a hat . |
| 24 | You are going to need a pair of kitchen scales or letter scales to weigh your food accurately . |
| 25 | Craig Melia , 30 , from Stretchley , near Sheffield , admitted stealing a pair of £22.50 jeans from Marks and Spencer in Darlington on March 21 . |
| 26 | Ronni cast a quick , knowing glance at Guido , expecting to meet a pair of scowling dark eyes . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah well , ’ said Rory , slowing to avoid a pair of sheep that had come dribbling across the road . |
| 28 | For the wild at heart , an entire army of animals captured on film and adapted to become a pair of braces . |
| 29 | The latest announcement in the field is for High Availability Cluster Multi-processing/6000 version 1.2 : software that aims to glue a pair of the machines together in such a way as to combine the benefits of fault-tolerance and symmetric multiprocessing . |
| 30 | having shed a pair of concrete slippers . |