Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be steep , making progress forward difficult — you have to hold one wheel and push hard on the other just to stop yourself from rolling down it . |
| 2 | With the fifth in my pocket , I went back outside , climbed behind the wheel and rolled away from the kerb . |
| 3 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 4 | They 'd taken pride in planning for every eventuality , but there was nothing much they could do when an oncoming driver had a heart attack at the wheel and steered straight into the path of their Rover saloon . |
| 5 | One of the young men at the rear of the little procession tugged at his rein and made to wheel and ride out of the wood . |
| 6 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 7 | Leave the Museum of Decorative Arts and walk along to the Svatopluka Čech Bridge of 1906 , by J. Soukup and J. Koula . |
| 8 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 9 | It has good head-retention characteristics and looks well in a straight-sided glass . |
| 10 | He was also chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and pointed out to the proprietor of the Daily Mail the danger of damaging democracy through a last minute election stunt story . |
| 11 | And such was the liking the company felt for Colley the Mason that they put their fingers in their ears and turned away from the door , and stared straight ahead at the altar . |
| 12 | You may need to allow her to feel very free to express mixed feelings of grief and anger too within the safety of your confidential relationship . |
| 13 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 14 | Another voice , another man 's voice rose louder in agony from the dreadful screaming and echoed plainly in the reception area . |
| 15 | She jumped into the jeep and drove furiously down the hill . |
| 16 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 17 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 18 | He waited ‘ till the tram drew abreast of the silent jeep and leaped on to the running board beside the driver . |
| 19 | She swung herself lightly from the jeep and walked slowly alongside the pool . |
| 20 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 21 | Another bullet fired from the same revolver had entered the outside of the driver 's ( that is , the left-hand ) door of the jeep and passed through to the edge of the driver 's seat without striking Paulette . |
| 22 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 23 | Christina heard Elaine 's screams and laughs even above the deafening roar of the sea . |
| 24 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 25 | Gordon sat quite still for a few seconds , then uncrossed his legs and went out of the room , a room in his own house , or rather his mother 's . |
| 26 | He let the jib sheet loose and heaved in on the main . |
| 27 | This work is being designed by the Regional Council 's landscape consultants , the Turnbull-Jeffrey Partnership and carried out under a series of contracts aimed at completion by Spring 1988 . |
| 28 | We now retrace our steps to Ponta do Sol and back up onto the road and continue along to Canhas . |
| 29 | However , the Vauxhall Sport result , where he was only beaten by the official team Subarus of Richard Burns and Alister McRae and finished ahead of the new Ford Escort Cosworths of Gwyndaf Evans , has provided sufficient encouragement for him to tackle the next round of the Open series , the Pirelli International on April 17/18 . |
| 30 | When Aggie swung round with a lightness that always denied her heavy bulk and made hastily for the door , Millie flew after her and , jumping in front of her , threw her arms around her waist as far as they would go , crying , ‘ I 'm sorry . |