Example sentences of "a [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An act done before the giving of a promise to make a payment or to confer some other benefit can sometimes be consideration for the promise . |
| 2 | Is it strictly true to say that ‘ An act done before the giving of a promise to make a payment or to confer some benefit can sometimes be consideration for the promise ’ ? |
| 3 | In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take . |
| 4 | Wiltshire Police have settled out of court , making a payment and accepting civil responsibility . |
| 5 | Wexford pushed aside the willows that hung like a pelmet and came to the rubbish pocket , where he knelt down . |
| 6 | It got blown against a thatch-stone and got killed . |
| 7 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 8 | On uneven ground use a base and peg it down or use stones to steady it . |
| 9 | A parents and toddlers group , toy library , bulk buy groups , senior citizens clubs , adult learning classes , bingo , whist drives and all sorts of fund raising activities can use the room as a base and add to the income of the school . |
| 10 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 11 | Whether you want a printing or drawing package , if you intend to spend around £150 or more , your first port of call should be the big integrated graphics bundles , quite simply because of their outstanding value for money . |
| 12 | Take the enclosed to a printing or duplicating Agency and arrange for at least 9 copies to be made . |
| 13 | Businessman Ron Smith , who owns a printing and publishing firm , said of Mr Lamont 's bold talking : ‘ It 's all technical claptrap . |
| 14 | ‘ I prefer Mr. Carus 's submission that an Orthodox rabbi is pursuing a vocation and has no choice but to accept the Chief Rabbi 's disciplinary decisions . |
| 15 | Law is not a business ; nor merely is it a profession , which is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as a vocation or calling , especially one that involves some branch of learning or science , but is one of three learned professions . |
| 16 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 17 | Gosh , it 's 9.00pm already , what d' you say we get a carry-out and come back ? |
| 18 | In return the prosecuting authorities withdrew their demand that he appear for questioning in person and chose to issue a summary indictment against him , on Sept. 28 , which dispensed with the need for a trial and involved a maximum fine of only 200,000 yen . |
| 19 | The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’ |
| 20 | Set a limited period for a trial and establish what you will try out and how you will test the results . |
| 21 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 22 | A 1940 War Office file on possible invasion sites states that Bawdsey is a ‘ Category A risk , liable to a seaborne attack , probably a smash-and-grab raid by up to 100 men , launched from a submarine or ship offshore ’ . |
| 23 | Finally , the teacher took a bucket and made a sand castle on top . |
| 24 | She heard the rattle of a bucket and saw Bunny Chaloner walk across the yard swinging the pail cheerfully . |
| 25 | Well we used to get a bucket and throw it over the v over like that . |
| 26 | I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire . |
| 27 | Do n't throw any two products into a bucket and mix them ; they may well destroy each other . |
| 28 | Once in , they had to dive for a golf ball , put it in a bucket and return to the trapeze to do it all again — fun eh ! |
| 29 | But erm and then at during er before lunch and all that I used to have to go take a bucket and go to the smithy and erm as you may know , there 's a a cooling er tank beside in the in er beside every every every erm blacksmith 's fire and er you know to bo keep the er no t no to keep the nozzle of the |
| 30 | She had thrown the artichoke leaves into a bucket and turned to slap and stir the milk again . |