Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb base] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Besides all this Tristan learned to ride nimbly with shield and lance , to spur his mount skilfully on either flank , put it to the gallop with dash , wheel and give it free rein and urge it on with his knees , in strict accordance with the chivalric art . |
| 2 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 3 | We strap them to the plane 's fuselage and pump them full of compressed air until we achieve neutral buoyancy . ’ |
| 4 | The van was impounded and SL2 had to hire a car on their Visa card and make their own way to the rave — which had been cancelled ! |
| 5 | Once you feel on top of this example sequence , experiment and find your own applications . |
| 6 | A bored or lonely horse may become so neurotic , that it chases itself around in circles , and in extreme cases may even bite its own legs and savage its own sides until they are raw and bleeding . |
| 7 | Ca n't we build on the word partnership and make it mean what you want . |
| 8 | Prices start at around £45 so why not give Dave a ring and get your favourite guitar made in miniature . |
| 9 | You 'll have to get your stuff down and , you know what one we 'll have to get , you know those big cases that she get 's from Ikea , and bring it all down and get one of those for your bedroom and keep it all in Started your homework yet Lee ? |
| 10 | Because that 's the way you develop players , give them a chance of first-grade football and get them used to operating in the big time . |
| 11 | After a long rather awful ordeal , the three children escape from the rule of Dr Adams and rejoin their true families . |
| 12 | The success is the extent to which they understand it , read it with optimum speed and find it interesting ’ ( E. Dale and J. S. Chall , quoted in Gilliland , 1972 , pp. 12–13 ) . |
| 13 | Moreover , Noorda must finally set up a line of succession and give us some indication of how Novell ( and Unix ) will function when he bows out . |
| 14 | Back the maid went , only to reappear shaking her head sorrowfully and saying this headache was so very bad as to quite incapacitate the invalid and render her unfit even for Wilson . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ There is important work to be done and America must always come first so we will get behind the new president and wish him well . ’ |
| 16 | I distance myself from the position and the policy of the President and advocate his immediate resignation [ and ] the handing over of power to a collective body , the Federation Council . " |
| 17 | It should be noted , however , that if one million of the three million were back at work and not receiving unemployment and/or supplementary benefits from the Exchequer , it would put less strain on the public purse and make it easier to meet the social security benefits for the expected one million over-85-year-olds . |
| 18 | The Tanzanian government bas designated the Serengeti a national park , in an effort to protect the animals and conserve their natural habitat . |
| 19 | Together they have raised five point seven million pounds last year , a wonderful result and thank you all . |
| 20 | My own child looked through me with her wide , hazel , dark-fringed eyes and cut me dead . |
| 21 | When it 's been a bad time and we sulk and grunt and ignore each other , I close my eyes and remember it all . ’ |
| 22 | She wanted to see it before it was touched ; wanted to meet its open eyes and fix its dead expression ; know it , for memory 's sake . |
| 23 | Close your eyes and make yourself comfortable . |
| 24 | It had survived the squeezing and pushing and pulling , the drugs and the pain , protected by its ignorance , it had survived to blink its grey eyes and wave its underwater hands , and turn its small blind mouth instinctively to her nipple , seeking food with the determined accuracy of an animal that intended to live . |
| 25 | Many people I know deplore the digging of these cant quarries and call them ugly eyesores and the rape of the country . |
| 26 | And lastly , Geoffrey , is it fair to lump the English , the Scots , the Irish and the Welsh together in one compartment and call them British ? |
| 27 | Everyone has to make up their own mind and define their own position with respect to the revolution and maternity . |
| 28 | As they moved around the room , Luke introducing her to the people with whom she would be working , Maria struggled to put his threats out of her mind and minimise her own reaction to him , both six years ago and now . |
| 29 | After that I 'd like to take a break and study something other than the techniques of the state police . |
| 30 | While other options were being carried out , and before the text was ready to receive entries for completely new words and meanings , it might well be desirable to begin to assemble these new entries and hold them ready in advance , so as to speed production and make the best use of the system 's storage capacity . |