Example sentences of "piece of [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she would spear a piece of chicken and carry it high in the air towards that great black hole of a mouth and , still talking about her therapy , her plans for the future , his inability to understand her as a woman , his crude , male-orientated sexuality , she would munch , munch , munch … |
| 2 | He was eating a cold sausage ; his tongue located a piece of gristle and spat it out . |
| 3 | Burun impaled a piece of meat and forked it delicately into his mouth . |
| 4 | Make a feature of it , do n't just stick it into a piece of furniture and hope it will look right . |
| 5 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 6 | If you have not time to bake the cakes you must scent a piece of gingerbread and give him that , and it will answer the same purpose . ’ |
| 7 | I spread a little of the peculiar fat on a piece of bread and put it into my mouth . |
| 8 | This is the first piece of fantasy that greets you when you enter the gates of the Studios . |
| 9 | She picked up a piece of pottery and turned it over . |
| 10 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 11 | She ladled the flat and listless thing on to a piece of toast and put it before her guest . |
| 12 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 13 | Well I , I might just block it off get another piece of wood and put it in there and just nail that fucking lot up and block off completely , otherwise Nick 's , if Nicholas is playing in the garden he 'll be out of there like a shot , so you 're gon na get one post there , say one in the middle and one at the end . |
| 14 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 15 | Moreover , they interpret a piece of music and make it their own , even if they have never encountered the given orchestra until a few hours before . |
| 16 | As an extra reminder , you could write a special message on a pretty piece of card and fix it to the back of the picture , noting both the date and the event . |
| 17 | In broad Scots he asked Selkirk for his authority , the soldier flourished a piece of parchment and told him to hurry . |
| 18 | Athelstan picked up the yellowing piece of parchment and thrust it at them . |
| 19 | The Roman Catholics were particularly vulnerable , yet impossible to dislodge or ignore , and when Cardinal Hinsley wrote a letter to The Times in November 1942 , Churchill cut it out , pasted it to a piece of cardboard and sent it to Butler with the cheerful note : ‘ There you are , fixed , old cock . ’ |
| 20 | I mean , it could be just a piece of grass that cut him . |
| 21 | They know how to set traps , they know how to ask you questions which will lead you into using emotive words , they will have you on tape , they will also possibly be in a position to edit that tape , and at the end of the day you can not say , ‘ I did n't say that , ’ because I have a piece of tape that says you actually did say it . |
| 22 | Once , he even put a live spider on a piece of tape and forced it into the terrified 11-year-old 's mouth . |
| 23 | Miss Harker took a piece of chalk and held it up . |
| 24 | Harvey stood there grinning and flushed and the waiter stepped forward with another great silver tray with just two drinks on it , and some wag took down a piece of greenery and formed it into a crown and the soldiers drew their swords and provided an arch under which Harvey walked . |
| 25 | You could poke at it with a screwdriver or a piece of wire and wipe it with a piece of rag . |
| 26 | Cover the pipe with a piece of cloth and bend it across your knee . |
| 27 | Then , as slowly and deliberately as before , Macmillan drew from an inside pocket of his coat a smallish piece of paper and raised it to within a couple of inches of his right eye . |
| 28 | I could have written ‘ It 's me ’ on a piece of paper and passed it to him . |
| 29 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 30 | Write your favourite joke or riddle on to a small piece of paper and put it inside your cracker . |