Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 2 | doing about sixty and I felt a twitch in the wheel and I thought shit ! |
| 3 | This leads to the concept of secondary reinforcement , in that things that are not actually drive- or need-reducing , but are consistently associated with the things which reduce the stimuli associated with the drive , can become reinforcing through this association and themselves reduce drive-stimuli . |
| 4 | Cos linear is just consignment stock and you know job there . |
| 5 | No listen , listen you 've got ta listen to this my girlfriend and I have sex whenever we can and really enjoy it oral sex but we have heard that sexually transmitted diseases can be passed on by drinking each other 's juices from oral sex , is this true ? |
| 6 | So I had to go and get a card and you know bits and pieces . |
| 7 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 8 | Oh no do n't do it with spit , saliva that you 're spitting to the boots you have to have water buckets of water and polish to do it I and they were up the stairs doing the boots on the grey carpet in the back bedroom and they had newspaper down |
| 9 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 10 | science and geography and I got art nice . |
| 11 | Dawn was just breaking and I began to see a little more civilisation and it looked sort of right . |
| 12 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 13 | We have to have returns to us at head office and to our French computer bureau , then we have to do the reconciliation between our bureau result and our Excel result . |
| 14 | Finding that the aircraft would still fly , he formed up behind the Fulmar and they set course for Malta . |
| 15 | Both met defeat and one suffered capture , thus becoming , in a very real sense , a national liability . |
| 16 | F—in' red wine on the carpet , that was bad , white wine on the walls so you get like a nice green tinge and they 'd been sick and broken the toilet seat and they 'd shit in the toilet and not flush it , fags in the coffee cups , I do n't let them come round any more … ’ |
| 17 | My arm was along the top of the back seat and I felt Barnes 's head fall back . |
| 18 | He 's the only person I know who looks like his passport photograph and he breaks people 's hands . |
| 19 | those within the basic adult education framework who usually study literacy , numeracy , coping/life/social/home skills , communication , sign language , lip-reading , Braille , typing those who are part of the general arts programme and who learn handicrafts , music and movement , dance , drama , orchestral playing , cookery , photography |
| 20 | the afternoon 's business as printed in the programme and I call Neil to give his national officer 's report . |
| 21 | They interfere with the horse 's well-being , his athletic training programme and his earning capacity , as well as further value . |
| 22 | you know so there 's , there 's a lot of things that you bear in mind and you take notes on them as you 're doing it |
| 23 | I think it was all in Kenneth 's mind and I think Kenneth 's hang-up about his backside and his obsession with cleanliness would have made physical love very difficult for him . ’ |
| 24 | One covered the verification of official documents , one dealt with compensation for lost mail and one established mechanisms for future contacts . |
| 25 | Two days later the sea had settled down after the prolonged gale and we headed north once more through the rock strewn channels and islands . |
| 26 | I ca n't remember I think it was Louise who br I went up to talk to her , and the question was , which of follow which of the following is not a swimming stroke and you have butterfly , breast stroke , bird crawl . |
| 27 | There was a mighty splash and he fell head first into the river and he did n't come up again . |
| 28 | As Gabriel trailed behind her boss 's resolute stride she ought to have felt angry at the words of abuse , but she knew that they represented Rose 's own fury and fear and she felt sympathy . |
| 29 | Especially after someone landed a greenie in his open mouth and he got hepatitis . |
| 30 | As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine . |