Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun] [coord] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then you would remain as a group and could observe your own customs , those which do not conflict with our law . ’ |
| 5 | I 've heard about a cockatoo but you 're talking about the hens cockerels . |
| 6 | But I do n't think there 'll be any to spare for a day or two . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 9 | It may be necessary to wait for a place or take a place somewhere else ( either permanently or temporarily ) . |
| 10 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 11 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 12 | When spring had come , the village filled for a week or so with men from the Tibetan villages further north . |
| 13 | Breathless , she straightened up and said fiercely , ‘ You can only stay for a minute and then you must promise to go . ’ |
| 14 | However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter . |
| 15 | He was sorry he 'd forgotten to pay Betty any money last year , but could he come and stay for a while and pay her then ? |
| 16 | But she seemed to fidget him ; he would let her stay for a while and then say , ‘ Run along , duckie , ca n't you see I 'm busy ? ’ |
| 17 | Those moths that settle there will probably only stay for a day and then continue higher still . |
| 18 | Old Mother Jacobsen knew that she did not have unlimited time to tell the story of Marie Grubbe to Elisabeth Danziger ; Elisabeth would stay for an hour and then be on her way . |
| 19 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 20 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 21 | To verify this the remedy is stopped for a week or two . |
| 22 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 23 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 24 | She reached into the Mini and lifted out her bag and began to rummage for a pen and paper . |
| 25 | Having considered the conflicts that might arise between a landlord and his tenant , Dr Clay concludes that : |
| 26 | I applied for a job and three people turned |
| 27 | Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man . |
| 28 | A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall . |
| 29 | They got ashore dry shod — as they described those landings in which you do not get your feet wet — but in these harsh conditions , Lieutenant Arthur Komrower suffered severe back and leg injuries when he was crushed between a rock and the 10-ton assault craft that had been on fire . |
| 30 | Bryn was disguised as a priest and issued with false documents to deceive the enemy . |