Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pers pn] [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 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 3 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 4 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 5 | We strap them to the plane 's fuselage and pump them full of compressed air until we achieve neutral buoyancy . ’ |
| 6 | One is the Nimrodel , which consoles their grief and promises them partial security ; as Frodo wades it ‘ he felt that the stain of travel and all weariness was washed from his limbs ’ . |
| 7 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 8 | Although we are dot going to be hobbling a horse by three legs and tethering it all day out in the sun , we will need a tolerant horse if we wish it to do boring or repetitious work . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh 's gloved hands slipped between the covers and flipped it open . |
| 10 | Ca n't we build on the word partnership and make it mean what you want . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 | During his tour the French government , on Oct. 30 , officially reiterated its recognition of him as Haiti 's President and offered him political asylum . |
| 17 | I nearly slipped up there Dick I , I , ick I nearly slipped up there President and called them slippery dog-eared toe-rags , I 'm glad I avoided that one |
| 18 | The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 21 | She got a cardigan and walked him all the way out the lane . |
| 22 | The farmers gathered then at the gates of the local authority offices and forced them open . |
| 23 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 24 | Together they have raised five point seven million pounds last year , a wonderful result and thank you all . |
| 25 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 26 | My own child looked through me with her wide , hazel , dark-fringed eyes and cut me dead . |
| 27 | Something changed in his face then , some fleeting spectre that drained the life from his eyes and left them cold and hard . |
| 28 | When it 's been a bad time and we sulk and grunt and ignore each other , I close my eyes and remember it all . ’ |
| 29 | Dr Walter Kilner developed some screens filled with a dicyanin solution which sensitized the eyes and made it easier for more people to see the aura . |
| 30 | Instead , you looked straight into their eyes and made it clear that you had absolutely no desire to wallow in the mud with them . |