Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 2 | doing about sixty and I felt a twitch in the wheel and I thought shit ! |
| 3 | In the morning I went with Dr Viola to the Academy of Arts and there met Professor Dachauer . |
| 4 | Music 24 songs and nothin' to hear Geoff Dyer goes down to the Springsteen river , and finds that it 's dry |
| 5 | This leads to the concept of secondary reinforcement , in that things that are not actually drive- or need-reducing , but are consistently associated with the things which reduce the stimuli associated with the drive , can become reinforcing through this association and themselves reduce drive-stimuli . |
| 6 | She did n't hear the screams because there was a roaring in her ears and she lost consciousness , pinned by the car to the lamp post . |
| 7 | Cos linear is just consignment stock and you know job there . |
| 8 | No listen , listen you 've got ta listen to this my girlfriend and I have sex whenever we can and really enjoy it oral sex but we have heard that sexually transmitted diseases can be passed on by drinking each other 's juices from oral sex , is this true ? |
| 9 | So I had to go and get a card and you know bits and pieces . |
| 10 | Her body was drenched with sweat ; it was glistening on her legs and she felt moisture beneath her on the seat . |
| 11 | You just well Ne both Neil and I have sort of felt well , to be quite honest it is n't worth it . |
| 12 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 13 | Oh no do n't do it with spit , saliva that you 're spitting to the boots you have to have water buckets of water and polish to do it I and they were up the stairs doing the boots on the grey carpet in the back bedroom and they had newspaper down |
| 14 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 15 | My son and his wife often asked us to bring groceries and we bought clothes for Ben . |
| 16 | I think I sort of , won a friend because I 'm sure that day that we got the groceries and I bought bones for the dogs did n't I ? |
| 17 | science and geography and I got art nice . |
| 18 | Voices came from the direction of the offices and he found Fox expostulating with a tall youngish man , a Glynn without doubt and the heir apparent . |
| 19 | Dawn was just breaking and I began to see a little more civilisation and it looked sort of right . |
| 20 | Secondary , or S-waves , are shear waves and they transmit energy by an ‘ up and down ’ motion of particles normal to the direction of propagation . |
| 21 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 22 | You 've got er animals and you grow wheat . |
| 23 | We have to have returns to us at head office and to our French computer bureau , then we have to do the reconciliation between our bureau result and our Excel result . |
| 24 | Finding that the aircraft would still fly , he formed up behind the Fulmar and they set course for Malta . |
| 25 | Something about the eyes and them winged eyebrows she 's got . |
| 26 | Marvellous green-blue eyes and he had Repose . |
| 27 | Both met defeat and one suffered capture , thus becoming , in a very real sense , a national liability . |
| 28 | Mrs Singh and I talked Mr Singh through the meeting , point by point . |
| 29 | I sympathised with her for , after all , Notts County was the oldest league club in the world , and this was the season when Tom Keetley scored a record thirty-nine goals and we came top of Third Division South . |
| 30 | Divisional heads therefore have incentives that , compared to the U-form , are aligned more closely with corporate ( global ) goals and which discourage over-pursuit of functional ( sub-global ) goals . |