Example sentences of "a [noun] [coord] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One piece of evidence is the fact that people questioned about a text or asked to recall it , frequently fill in details which they were not actually given , but which a schema has provided for them . |
| 2 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 3 | At each end are two women : young one , lying on front and side , half-wrapped in her mantle as a blanket and beginning to pull it up on her shoulder as a dress while she lifts herself to look towards the centre ; and an old one with cropped hair , a slave , fully dressed , beginning to get to her knees . |
| 4 | A separator and trivet mean you can cook more than one thing at once and a Rise'n'Time indicator lets you time the cooking process by telling you when the right temperature is reached . |
| 5 | Around the turn of the century men from Potterspury formed a club with a view to purchase a horse and brake to convey them to and from Wolverton . |
| 6 | After the doctor , nurses and others have rushed to the scene to settle the girl with a syringe and have taken her off in an ambulance , Mrs Turpin goes home . |
| 7 | Other boxers too acknowledge sometimes unknown fathers as their inspiration , for example , Danny Evans , who was raised in an orphanage but was vaguely aware that his father was once a boxer and tried to emulate him . |
| 8 | In 1973 Tarasia and Mishra reported on a 10 year old boy who caught a fish in a pond and attempted to kill it by biting ; unfortunately the fish slipped inside his mouth . |
| 9 | Richards is inclined to follow fashion in identifying ‘ the road lobby ’ as a prime cause of our troubles when the great majority of people have access to a car and want to use it . |
| 10 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 11 | Suppose you shoot a marble and try to get it across a hump in the ground . |
| 12 | I found a woman talking unhappily into a telephone and tried to cheer her up and went on trying even after her boyfriend or husband appeared from somewhere . |
| 13 | Looking back at the bell-box Sorvino was tempted to find a half-brick and try to put it out , but that would be fun and not duty . |
| 14 | A security guard at a British Gas depot in Wakefield , West Yorkshire , was kidnapped by a gunman and made to drive him about 40 miles , it was disclosed . |
| 15 | The glycosides are even retained as the caterpillar changes into a butterfly and help to protect it from predatory birds . |
| 16 | Then I felt a fool and decided to leave it and mind my own business . |
| 17 | ‘ It hauled me to the ground with a thump and started mauling me on the back and neck . ’ |
| 18 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 19 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 20 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ He asked about the bureau and I said I had nowhere to put the things from it so he went into the wardrobe and cleared a shelf and said put it in there . |
| 22 | We may study with our guide-books all the historic , individual features of a town and get to know them . |
| 23 | Set your child 's teddies in a circle and pretend to give them all a spoonful , finishing with one for your son or daughter . |
| 24 | If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission . |
| 25 | She let him know also that she was a virgin and wanted to save it for someone special . |
| 26 | If you 're on a sailing or windsurf holiday you may still book without a supplement if you 're willing to share with someone on the same holiday . |
| 27 | She had been there about a week when I learnt of her arrival through a friend and went to visit her . |
| 28 | but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it . |
| 29 | He grunted , dropped a spoon and bent to pick it up . |
| 30 | only agree of a single claim item subject to a satisfactory overall settlement : a skilled negotiator can pick off the strong points in a claim and attempt to buy them cheaply |