Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’ |
| 2 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 3 | TOMMY SMITH : ( Liverpool , Swansea and England — 1962-1979 ) : ‘ The minute he got off the coach and walked into the changing-room people would go for cover . |
| 4 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 5 | He got off the bed and walked to the window . |
| 6 | She got off the bed and , opening the bureau , took out a set of handcuffs and some leather-look rope . |
| 7 | She got off the bed and listened . |
| 8 | He got off the bed and went around . |
| 9 | She got off the bed and went to unlock the door without any trepidation , or any other strong emotion . |
| 10 | Now we got off the phone and knowing the man I allowed three . |
| 11 | Jess got off the bench and parted the bushes , peering into the laurel darkness , her heart pounding and her breath coming shallow and fast . |
| 12 | Fearing the worst , the driver and second man got off the locomotive and examined the train and the line side , but could find nothing untoward . |
| 13 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 14 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 15 | When they arrived in Milan , the two got off the train and , by coincidence , the first thing they both saw was a blown-up photograph of Penelope Tree . |
| 16 | So Margot got off the bus and the policeman says , now you have to really vigilant today Margot there 's a lot of bombs in Lisburn Right ! |
| 17 | ‘ So my father took him , and he got off the cart and off he went . |
| 18 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 19 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 20 | So we are erm continuously forecasting for the Gas and Electricity Authorities . |
| 21 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 22 | Then you would remain as a group and could observe your own customs , those which do not conflict with our law . ’ |
| 23 | Now we 've just heard about the fox and it 's coming across into the clearing , then an eye widening deepening greenness and talks about it coming about his own business till a sudden sharp hot stink of fox enters the dark hole of the head . |
| 24 | A Swiss Bishop had heard about the project and suggested a plan which is essentially still followed in international meetings : i.e. that representatives of all Eucharist-centred endeavours and activities throughout the world should come together at certain times . |
| 25 | The drops of liquid solidified during the fall and were instantly cooled by the water , which also preserved the shot from damage by impact on a hard surface . |
| 26 | The moth was still fluttering between the pane and pinned scarlet cotton . |
| 27 | on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures . |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
| 29 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 30 | On a final , poignant note , I notice a large arrow sticking through the front and rear of the house . |