Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked to see a doctor and Zahira was taken to another part of the building where , she says , she was superficially examined by a doctor and a nurse . |
| 2 | Likewise seeing involves a seer and a person or thing seen . |
| 3 | Since the demise of the punch-card system for entering commands this has normally been undertaken using a keyboard and a screen driven by a cathode ray tube ( CRT ) or liquid crystal display ( LCD ) , although voice entry of data and touch screens have also been used . |
| 4 | In this way , the discourse is argumentative in both senses of the term : arguments are given to bolster a conclusion and these arguments are justifications against the potential criticism of being irrational . |
| 5 | Right , yes , it is important you see is n't it ? , because one of things that happens also I think is , is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it , and a call the other side , and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there , or under the motorway there , but sometimes you ca n't can you ? |
| 6 | He did not see why anyone , even a wealthy mill-owner , would want to drive a horse and carriage backwards down such a steeply sloping yard when he could just as easily leave it standing in the driveway . |
| 7 | say make a wood'un and ice it . |
| 8 | Indian English has developed a syntax and vocabulary of its own : the Bombayite who wants to be sure that ‘ You live in Colaba , do n't you ? ’ is likelier to ask , ‘ You are staying Colaba-side , is n't it ? ’ |
| 9 | To understand the importance of mobility , just think of someone who has broken a leg and has had to endure a plaster cast for several weeks . |
| 10 | To understand the importance of mobility , just think of someone who has broken a leg and has had to endure a plaster cast for several weeks . |
| 11 | Perhaps it 's enough to be Scarlet , who has to see a therapist and dreams only of early retirement and death . |
| 12 | GRUMMAN F7F Tigercat 80374/N7629C , in store for some time at the Marine Corps Museum at Quantico , Virginia , has been traded to famed Reno racer/Lockheed test pilot Darryl Greenamyer in exchange for four aircraft ( reported to include a TBM and a PBJ Mitchell ) . |
| 13 | If a person wants to wear a wig and erm you know you should feel comfortable with or without a wig , does n't really matter does it ? |
| 14 | ‘ Apart from the coaches we are taking , the club has chartered a plane and then there will be those making their own way in private or hired cars , mini-buses and vans , ’ said Dave . |
| 15 | The Irishman stopped to light a cigarette and smiled . |
| 16 | It rather resembles a Victorian village school in outline ( or perhaps Victorian village schools resemble it ! ) , with its steep roof and dormer windows looking like belfries ; you fully expect to see a vicarage and church in the same style hovering nearby . |
| 17 | Not long after that , witnesses near the St Claude Avenue Bridge , eight miles away , reported seeing a man and a woman go by on a motorcycle . |
| 18 | As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem . |
| 19 | As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem . |
| 20 | It does n't have to be followed slavishly , which can happen when a man wants to impose a schedule and organise it as formally as he has organised his work . |
| 21 | Teacher training also tried to provide a methodology and techniques to deal with rural multi-grade schools , which require different skills from those in single grade teaching . |
| 22 | I want to find a hole and crawl into it , to escape this ultimate psychic double-whammy . |
| 23 | Labour has to find a defence and foreign policy that rejects the Conservatives ' Great Power illusions . |
| 24 | Nowadays the holding of dances , raffles , and pub talks along with the fixture has pushed up the sums enormously , although if inflation and house prices are taken into account even £50,000 or over is hardly a fortune for a man who has to find a job and keep a family . |
| 25 | While working at the cinema , for instance , he tried to repair a cistern and ended up flooding the place . |
| 26 | The Aristotelian talk of definitions ‘ does not reveal nature to us , but only does the same as the man who promised to discover a treasure and then says ‘ look where it is hidden and you will find it . ’ |
| 27 | Think of all those women who long to bear a child and are unable . ’ |
| 28 | The ESF wants to find a home and a new sponsor for this activity . |
| 29 | ‘ It cost sop a packet and was called The Skin-Scorcher . |
| 30 | Hawick 's hooker and captain Jim Hay , a former B cap , has torn a hamstring and will miss his club 's match this weekend with relegation threatened Heriot 's at Mansfield Park . |