Example sentences of "a [noun] [coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 2 | Tremayne listened a bit and talked a bit and then gave me the receiver again . |
| 3 | I felt Niki was trying to be as much an elder statesman as a driver and though to say he was perfunctory in his driving would be an exaggeration , it was clear that he was looking to the future , and the development of the new engine , rather than to the present . |
| 4 | His career sounded very hit and miss ; he 'd switched from one subject to another at university , studying for a PhD but never completing it , and then shifted from job to job , looking for status rather than satisfaction . |
| 5 | No , no he , he unstuck er a drain and then said he did something on the roof |
| 6 | If you issue a cheque and then decide you want to ‘ stop ’ payment you can , providing it has not already been paid or been guaranteed by your cheque card . |
| 7 | Low stated that , if any Croats escaped into Austria , " we would guard them , disarm them , put them in a camp and later return them to Yugoslavia " . |
| 8 | This does n't come automatically to a dyslexic person very often , and we also look at letters from left to right , but if you look at a u and then turn it upside down in your mind , you have an n , or h and y can be reversed to turn into each other , if you like , in the same way . |
| 9 | Tony bought him a whisky and then bought him another . |
| 10 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 11 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 12 | A fully qualified nurse thought it was a bruise and just gave him an icepack . |
| 13 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 14 | indeed into the infra red if you were using the , I mean obviously that 's a small scale , probably would n't , erm , so the idea of actually putting some concert notes onto a tape or indeed doing it live , so anyway Simon is away on holiday , after the Festival but I 've arranged Cannon principal and for him and you |
| 15 | Bobo broke off a piece and magnanimously handed it over . |
| 16 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 17 | His fingers tightened on her head for a second and then released her . |
| 18 | I could take on a Gladiator and probably beat them ! ’ ’ |
| 19 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 20 | I want you to put across what you 're gon na do and and ask a question and then tell us why you chose to go that route . |
| 21 | Mr Heseltine says : ‘ The media are very good at sensing a mood and then exaggerating it . |
| 22 | Anything which makes rigging and de-rigging more difficult increases the risk of someone getting tired of holding up a wing-tip and so letting it droop or even drop . |
| 23 | These are matters of good practice and there is no statutory requirement to make a plan or indeed review it . |
| 24 | Whilst most of this macro was created using the Macro Record facility , the sections which deal with the path and document name were added by loading the macro as a file and then typing them in . |
| 25 | No wh what I 'm saying is why ca n't we produce the letters off the box let's , can we find out exactly what it would , what , how er if we can find a way of getting this information downloaded onto a disk and then run it off on a straightforward standard letter basis . |
| 26 | It will arrive on a single floppy , without an installation program — you 'll have to install it manually ( creating a group and maybe assigning it an icon ) . |
| 27 | It 's true that some to leave a mess but that 's convenient for builders and speculators who can wreck a place and then blame it on the squatters . |
| 28 | It was safer to wrap the dead up in a canvas and simply roll them over the parapet into the largest shell-hole in the vicinity . |
| 29 | Well no , knowing our it 's probably the er electricity board 's come along , to read the meter , somebody 's put a screw in it , and they 've got a crowbar and just opened it up . |
| 30 | His uncle hesitated a moment and then said she had left the house as soon as she realised Vincent had come . |