Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , now , ’ Miss Louise called back sharply , ‘ mind your manners and let them in . ’ |
| 2 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 3 | He had taken one hand from the wheel and held it up in protest . |
| 4 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 5 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 6 | Its presence will indicate hostility towards religion and make it very difficult for people to take religion seriously . |
| 7 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 8 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 9 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 10 | By managing the stock and thinning them out we 're getting larger and better shellfish . ’ |
| 11 | All these moves are aimed at beating the stress which can weaken new stock and make them more susceptible to the other little problems of a new tank . |
| 12 | The familiar modern terminology was already in use : " bull " already described a dealer who bought stock and sold it ahead of having to pay for it , while " bear " applied to those who contracted to sell stock they had yet to obtain . |
| 13 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 14 | Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden . |
| 15 | Should of had it on the card and tucked it in |
| 16 | As it prints ‘ larger than life ’ , it is very simple to transfer the design to a card and punch it out . |
| 17 | Cornelius retrieved both letter and card and set them down before him . |
| 18 | Please , therefore , complete the enclosed assessment card and return it immediately in the envelope provided . |
| 19 | Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide |
| 20 | Draw round or trace the shape on to the card and cut it out . |
| 21 | She has every card and note he ever wrote . |
| 22 | In all the confusion Guy Sterne had calmly flashed a credit card and whisked her away . |
| 23 | If the doctor suspects that the medicine has caused an affect like that , he 's asked to fill in a card and to send it in . |
| 24 | The unarmed man then produced a buff-coloured plastic ID card and held it up in front of Vasili . |
| 25 | She pulled out one card and handed it over , extending it between two outstretched fingers — as if amnesia was catching . |
| 26 | Mr Reynolds was kept comfortable by lifting and moving him gently every 2 hours and giving him regular analgesia . |
| 27 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 28 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 29 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 30 | ‘ The basic idea is that you jump towards them , scoop up their legs and take them down hard , ’ she explained . |