Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat lurched as his hands slackened on the wheel and it hit the wake of a speeding launch . |
| 2 | We shook hands on the deal and I grabbed the handles and began to push my first cock sparrow back over the bridge towards the Whitechapel Road . |
| 3 | the Sergeant started up the jeep and we entered the cornfield at speed , heading in the direction of the first three canisters . |
| 4 | Now cast iron , if you are in the metal workshops and you are hitting something with a hammer and you hit the vice instead , Mr will throw a scranny at you . |
| 5 | I showed him our itinerary and he read the names aloud slowly and haltingly as if thee were the names of some distant land whose pronunciation he was unsure of . |
| 6 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 7 | The whole team caught the bug and you know the rest . |
| 8 | This was n't his first encounter with Stephen 's rival and he knew the woman seated on the other side of the high table was a formidable opponent , probably more dangerous than the King , and possessing in full measure the strong will and harsh determination that had characterised her father and grandfather . |
| 9 | His wife dies in the opening few minutes of the movie and he spends the rest of his life mourning her . |
| 10 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 11 | Abolish the cohabitation rule and you establish the right of a mistress to draw SB in her own right . |
| 12 | The clerk expressed the view that they contained inadmissible material because of the hearsay rule and he took the view that the evidence was inadmissible despite the relevant provisions of the Children Act 1989 designed to overcome that difficulty . |
| 13 | Tricia noticed it too , for she put herself between us again on the front seat and I heard the giveaway click-clack from her pocket . |
| 14 | He thought of saying , ‘ Hello , Irena ! ’ but it would have been a rude interruption and he replaced the phone . |
| 15 | This standard was developed with commercial accounts in mind and it confirms the view that depreciation is a matter of allocation , not of valuation ; though in recent years it has become acceptable to allocate revalued amounts . |
| 16 | The idea stuck in my mind and I contacted the local NGS organiser , who suggested we open the following year . |
| 17 | She ran her trembling fingers through his hair , arching back as his lips found her neck and she felt the delicious sensation of his teeth , soft against her flesh . |
| 18 | ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’ |
| 19 | Tonight , John Taylor revealed that his mother has had a stroke and he says the strain of the whole affair is to blame . |
| 20 | Oh yeah , I hate it when you open your stupid bloody mouth and you say the most bitchy things sometimes Catherine |
| 21 | That wretched thumb was in her mouth again ; it left her mouth and she watched the hand it belonged to inch its slow way across the counterpane towards his , almost as though it had nothing to do with her . |
| 22 | Their resentment focused on the way industry seemed to be benefiting at their expense and they blamed the Finance Ministry 's favouritism towards industry for the plight — and the restiveness — of the peasantry . |
| 23 | I think it 's an unnecessary expense and we take the view that if the product is good and if the price is fair , buyers will come to us . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ It was a game where we were second best in every department and we got the result we deserved . |
| 25 | The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down . |
| 26 | There was a sensation of rushing white coldness , scentless , but obliterating the faint tang of the tea and she heard the low growling roar of the sea . |
| 27 | Despite Tory attempts , despite Tory attempts to darken the skies over , we have emerged into the sunlight , with building a better we will build a brighter future and I move the recommendation . |
| 28 | I have enough intelligence to go and look at graphs and look at charts and do my research and I see the turn that was made from 1979 to 1989 and I see the way things are in my country . |
| 29 | This is examined in the next chapter and it forms the basis of the human relations approach to organisations . |
| 30 | And yet he can watch the telly and he reads the newspaper and yet you do n't , he ca n't understand English but he 'd be watching this right and it is ha laugh so something must be funny but he du n no what 's happening . |