Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] pair [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cosy harshness was broken only by a pair of plastic houseplants and by prints of country scenes on the walls . |
| 2 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 3 | She was smartly dressed in a grey two-piece suit and posed elegantly on a pair of high heels . |
| 4 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 5 | When she had chosen the least remarkable and staggered downstairs in a pair of high-heeled purple boots the others got their revenge by wheezing about the room in hysterics once more . |
| 6 | The car drew up outside a pair of high white gates . |
| 7 | Tom opened the sitting-room door and the silence was broken by Sammy as he came bounding out , leaping up at the pair of them barking excitedly . |
| 8 | ‘ Do after your kind , ’ said Radulfus , looking down at the pair with a face almost as blanched as the prior 's , ‘ and so must I. Jerome , ’ he said , with absolute and steely authority , ‘ look up and face me . ’ |
| 9 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 10 | He came up with a pair of binoculars and handed them to Culley . |
| 11 | Single widths of printed muslin are made up into a pair of 3-metre curtains . |
| 12 | Mrs Parker bounced into a garden shed , came out with a pair of secateurs . |
| 13 | Another , hearing of the little princes ' new holiday arrangements , commented : ‘ I feel sorry for them , being moved around like a pair of poor little shuttlecocks . ’ |
| 14 | When fully developed ( Figs. and 48 ) they consist essentially of a pair of claspers which help to grip the female during copulation and between which lies the aedeagus . |
| 15 | The woman said she had , and in the filing cabinet behind , but that she was searching specifically for a pair of scissors . |
| 16 | He wades in among the pair of them , grabs their studded leather collars and starts yanking them away . |
| 17 | They turned in through a pair of eagle-mounted gateposts , then at the end of a long driveway at last drew to a halt . |
| 18 | Derek Douane was being cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties , not minding their tanned fingers in his hair , on his face or twanging his braces . |
| 19 | You 're telling me you wan na run around in a pair of shorts |
| 20 | Moving elegantly on a pair of high heels , she looked stunning . |
| 21 | Nor are folk expected to doss down on a pair of planks across the bath . |
| 22 | Kirov glanced casually at a pair of tripod cameras and an umbrella floodlight . |
| 23 | Country and Western music plays out from a pair of white speakers , perfectly complementing the queasy swell of the boat . |
| 24 | HAR-ROOMF ! grew louder and , all at once , there he was : the great boxy head with two huge floppy ears on either side ; broad muzzle with a grand black nose ; feet the size of dinner platters ; a tail as thick as a mooring rope ; vast pink tongue hanging out between a pair of the longest , sharpest teeth imaginable . |
| 25 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 26 | A little startled , she looked up , and was more startled because Ven was much closer than she had thought , and she found she was staring straight into a pair of inscrutable and penetrating dark eyes . |
| 27 | I played outside , running around in a pair of shorts and — I imagine-quite happy to have the whole pregnancy thing going on because it gave me more freedom to do as I liked about the house and garden , free from my father 's supervision . |
| 28 | For example the sport of crown green bowling , which was very little known outside of the north of England , has been shown to a wider public ; the greens are often oddly bereft of spectators , and the northern accents of the players are plainly audible as they urge on their woods or confer solemnly as a pair over the last bowl of an important ‘ end ’ . |
| 29 | Throughout the Diptera , and in the males of the Coccoidea , the hind wings are represented only by a pair of slender processes termed halteres . |
| 30 | IF YOU fancy an early bite of calabrese , seeds should be sown now — preferably in module trays , placing two or three seeds in each ‘ cell ’ in case any fail to germinate and , if they all grow , the sturdiest seedlings will be retained and the weaker snipped off with a pair of scissors . |