Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just when you think you 've got it straight , along comes the Fool with his pig 's bladder and whops you on the nose . |
| 2 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 3 | They had such nice manners and treated me like one of their own , so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones . |
| 4 | Second , because governments and ministers still retain political objectives and motivations , they will attempt to guard jealously information within their purview and to use it in such ways as to influence and direct public opinion . |
| 5 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 6 | Nigel Buxton , 41 , swerved snarply across the road when he lifted both his hands off the wheel and ran them through his hair , Didcot magistrates heard . |
| 7 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 8 | If you have quick release wheels , take off the front wheel and lock it to the frame and back wheel . |
| 9 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
| 10 | Alternatively , an economical and effective way of securing your car is to fit a strong chain and padlock around the steering wheel and attach it to the seat , clutch or brake pedal . |
| 11 | Bede perceived in Ceolwulf a love of religion and recommended him to Ecgberht , bishop of York , in 734 as a willing helper in the work of ecclesiastical reform and organization . |
| 12 | Only Sinead O'Connor would have the courage , the reckless spirit , to take on songs made famous by the greatest singers — Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday , Peggy Lee — to sing them live in front of a 47-piece orchestra , then take on organised religion and blame it for child abuse , and damn the consequences . |
| 13 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
| 14 | This practical 2-day course highlights the risks and provides you with the knowledge to contain them . |
| 15 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 16 | By introducing him to Pan Am 's lawyers before bowing out again , Miller had broken Coleman 's alarming sense of isolation and put him in touch with at least a measure of the support he needed , support that the DIA itself was unable to give . |
| 17 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 18 | Some people buy rare or difficult to keep animals as pets and donate them to zoos . |
| 19 | As this knowledge of the remedies grows in you , do not be surprised if you sometimes ‘ just know ’ which is the right remedy and know it without any doubts . |
| 20 | It will be helping with localisation and pushing it on Apple Computer Inc 's Power Book line . |
| 21 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 22 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 23 | Consequently most of it is scored for orchestral accompaniment : to extract the songs and perform them with piano , either in a performance-art format , as does Angelina Réaux , or as a Liederabend like Carole Farley , is to present a one-dimensional aspect of the music and an ultimate disservice to the composer . |
| 24 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |
| 25 | There are organisations which take a positive approach to creative thinking and build it into their staff development structure by organising creative days or even weeks . |
| 26 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 27 | If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic . |
| 28 | When the platoon is ambushed , Barnes shoots Elias and leaves him for dead . |
| 29 | ‘ Hang 'em , burn 'em , torture 'em , throw 'em to the wolves , cut off their ears and nail 'em to the notice board , ’ shouted a particularly excited worshipper . |
| 30 | It 's back — Oz Clarke 's Wine Guide 1993 returns for its ninth year with a prediction : that Australian winemakers who know ‘ how to take a pile of sows ’ ears and turn them into silk purses ’ are taking over from the vineyards of Europe . |