Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diaphragm , I read , had to be smeared with spermicide , squeezed tight between fingers and thumb to make it narrow enough , then inserted at an implausible angle . |
| 2 | The final stage between Cresswell and Burslem gave us a few anxious moments when Dave and Richard became ensnared in City Centre traffic but they managed to complete the 24 hour Tour de Matthey with 5 minutes to spare ! |
| 3 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 4 | The company developed HFCS in the 1970s ; now soft drinks giants such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi use it instead of sugar to sweeten almost all their non-diet brands and it has 30 per cent of the North American sweetener market . |
| 5 | They would have to wait for Bert and Jasper to help him . |
| 6 | Examples from our corpus confirm these observations but show that the line between mediate and immediate assistance is not always as easy to draw as Erades and Wood make it out to be . |
| 7 | Something between distress and amusement struck her this time . |
| 8 | A petrol price war is expected after Esso and BP announced they 're to cut prices by more than six pence per gallon from tomorrow in response to cuts of four point five pence made by other companies . |
| 9 | A petrol price war is expected after Esso and BP announced they 're to cut prices by more than six pence per gallon from tomorrow in response to cuts of four point five pence made by other companies . |
| 10 | so , so then Anita goes , no I go tell him to put it in a letter then , yeah , and he was gon na put it in a letter and then he changed his mind and he said he was gon na ask me after school , but then he did n't ask me after school and Kate gave him my phone number and then he phoned me |
| 11 | What is the mid-point of the argument that some teachers do not want to reflect , others can never find the time for reflection and others feel it unnecessary ? |
| 12 | A steep climb through bracken and bilberries brought us to a wide rocky plateau . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ We talked about marriage and Kirk said he did n't want to get married , maybe in a few years time . |
| 14 | He had all three and felt that at last the play was under way : this was why he had struck north ; this was why he had learned his part ( and God bless Major General Lake of Dumfries and God keep him there ) ; this was his great opportunity and ‘ O Lord , ’ he prayed to himself , ‘ if it is true that You have love even for the worst of Your sinners and let Your Son welcome into Paradise the thief on the cross who by a single act redeemed a life of evil , then remember me at Hause Point , remember how I tried to obey Your will and how I saved that innocent young girl and help me here because I swear , if I succeed in my intention here , I will lead a life of charity and Christian duty to the end . |
| 15 | It will take an act of stealth and courage to rescue it . |
| 16 | In Jacques 's view , without the considerable talents and skills which Hampden Jackson gave unsparingly to the WEA , the District would not have flourished during the war nor in the twenty-five year period of change and innovation following it and in which Hampden Jackson actively participated in partnership with Frank Jacques . |
| 17 | As a result , we have developed the Midland Student Service — a flexible , comprehensive range of products and services to help you when your finances are in a healthy state and when they 're not — giving you real value for money and continuous help and guidance throughout your period of study . |
| 18 | Exposed rafters , wall-to-wall pine panelling and the extensive use of beech and oak endow it with a warmth that is too often absent from modern architecture . |
| 19 | Please complete the form below remembering to clearly indicate which product you require along with our reference number if shown or the type of computer and cassette/disk format you require . |
| 20 | ‘ Get hold of Sabrina and C.W. Tell them I want them here by two this afternoon . ’ |
| 21 | Ami Pro 3.0 not only gives you a full range of text and text styles it also gives you a drawing package , a charting package , an equation editor and a grammar checker . |
| 22 | With the prospect of William and Harry joining them for a holiday afterwards , Diana was in good heart . |
| 23 | Bingo , played in a newspaper or otherwise , involves no skill , no moral quality , only large quantities of money and people to make it successful . |
| 24 | There was to be full-blooded abolition of RPM and legislation to achieve it that session' . |
| 25 | Thus , although Franco 's own Minister of Industry and Commerce told him in early 1949 that , without more foreign aid , the Spanish economy could survive for six months at most , the Caudillo insisted that Spain had no need of the international community . |
| 26 | Like Stuart pretending he has n't heard of Picasso and Oliver pretending he does n't understand any machinery invented after the spinning-jenny . |
| 27 | ‘ I enjoy using the Schut paper because the variety of weights and textures gives me the perfect surface for my work , from very detailed illustrations to the more spontaneous watercolours . ’ |
| 28 | Thousands and thousands of tonnes of rock and gravel face us , and the thought pops into mind that any gold there may be in the area seems to be pretty safe from any chance of extracting it . |
| 29 | Here , the example of bottle-wrack and splurge-weed serves us again . |
| 30 | If you need a full featured word processor — and while you might like the idea of drawing and charting do you really need them within your word processor — and have the hardware to support it , I think it is a strong competitor to Word for Windows 2 and currently in advance of any others . |