Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Camels was the lower no the bot the one of the bottom of the station was Bert and he married a Stronsay woman . |
| 2 | What we had to do was pop out to buy daddy a card and we got a paper and we got some biscuits and cake for tea for tomorrow . |
| 3 | I think he laid a joker card and I had a hand card up , so he had to do a kiss my hand . |
| 4 | They wanted it to be rough sounding and we had a lot of discussions . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 6 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 7 | He played semi-pro football and he founded a rugby club . |
| 8 | We play football and I score a goal , mainly because everyone except Stewpid is playing so badly that it 's difficult to miss … . |
| 9 | Moving to fine china , there was a very considerable overseas sales decline , particularly in Canada where there were lots of major retailers going bankrupt , but despite that , sales were over two hundred million for the fourth year in succession and we had a record December . |
| 10 | Her hand fell away from the switch and she took a step towards the typists ' room , her head cocked . |
| 11 | William de Sackville had contracted , or promised , to marry Albreda de Tresgoz , but he had in fact married Adelizia de Vere and they had a daughter , Mabel . |
| 12 | Guilt flooded her in waves and she put a hand to her temple . |
| 13 | The wide main street , which the Berner Gate bounds and which forms a market place , has sixteenth-century arcaded sidewalks and houses , with seventeenth- and eighteenth-century facades . |
| 14 | I know of a lovely teacher who told her boys and girls in school about God 's plan for the animals and they had a mother bunny in her cage right in the schoolroom . |
| 15 | Farm workers also gain intrinsic satisfaction from working with living and growing plants and animals and they share a sense of achievement when they are finally brought to maturity , the sequential nature of production allowing workers to be involved in all of the stages through to completion . |
| 16 | Fen had followed the direction of her eyes and she heard a sound which this time could be interpreted as amusement . |
| 17 | Thus individuals desire certain goals and they put a value on these goals . |
| 18 | When we started to go there at first there were a fella , a fella from Keighley who was a weaver and he bought a bit of land at the side of the er , the side of the chapel , or was it the school ? |
| 19 | He regarded her calmly through dark-rimmed spectacles and she felt a burst of unusual irritation . |
| 20 | ‘ We produce a programme and they produce a programme . |
| 21 | On another matter , I received from Wyre Borough Council details of the funding scheme for projects under the Rural Development Programme and I enclose a copy in case the PCC have any ideas which they might like to put forward . |
| 22 | You have a mind and I have a mind . |
| 23 | From his vantage point he sees in one part of the field the enemy trying to retreat with their artillery and he sends a message to his brigade of light Cavalry . |
| 24 | Eyewitnesses said the terrorists were wearing baseball caps and one had a scarf covering his face . |
| 25 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
| 26 | So intently watching himself he no longer saw Richard and he pushed a finger smeared with cold gel gently into the hole , then the cock pressed against the opening and pushed . |
| 27 | Last year when You Got An Ology ? was published , Richard and I graced a couple of books signings at which the chief draw was a constantly playing video of all thirty-three adverts . |
| 28 | I thought : if Richard and I had a daughter , would we quarrel over this ? |
| 29 | They get poem , my greatest fear and they get a project homework from Lynn . |
| 30 | puts an aerial on your roof and they knock a hole in your roof then presumably they 're liable for the damage |