Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb infin] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was feeling a bit tense and restless , and did n't feel like being alone or sitting still . |
| 2 | Yet , whenever she contemplated a resumption of the life she had enjoyed before her initial meeting with Johnny , she felt a rising panic and a disinclination amounting almost to hostility at the very idea . |
| 3 | Can a heart rise and sink at the same time ? |
| 4 | For cutting bricks and blocks , you need a brick bolster and club hammer ; do n't try to emulate the professional and cut bricks with the edge of your bricklaying trowel . |
| 5 | They did a nativity play and Joseph forgot his words — but it was ever so nice to hear them . |
| 6 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 7 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 8 | If I do a file combine and then copy and then just part of the file , so it 's name you 'll specify the range . |
| 9 | We need a focus point and that , that needs to be it . |
| 10 | What I 've done in the past , is erm , for file retrieve and then erm , on top of the original do a slash put and then enter , and that then gives me a sub-file . |
| 11 | He heard a pheasant call and almost called back from habit . |
| 12 | ‘ Or we can charge them , and let a court try and sort it out . |
| 13 | ‘ They will soon see a pattern emerge and this will help them identify situations when they habitually smoke , ’ he said . |
| 14 | How , he wondered , could a bell ring and no one be seen pulling it ? |
| 15 | Over 50 per cent , and in some cases over 60 per cent said they would like to learn about the human heart , germs and illnesses , how our muscles work , what food is good for you , life in the sea , what makes a rainbow appear and how a record is made . |
| 16 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 17 | She heard a door open and close ; Mrs Gracie left her and hurried out of the room . |
| 18 | I heard a door open and close , and then the redhead was coming towards us . |
| 19 | Barry heard a door open and footsteps coming in his direction . |
| 20 | Where does a smack end and abuse begin ? ’ |
| 21 | I ran into the road , did a Highland fling and ran back on to the pavement . |
| 22 | He heard a rifle fire and the police car shake as it absorbed the bullets . |
| 23 | Well , I did a moonlight flit and stole two silver candlesticks . |
| 24 | Oh yeah yeah yeah I say reset the system , do a system reset and then see how it goes , it 's all , it , it er it 's the main problem them , and there 's no cure for it . |
| 25 | Yeah , let's do a system reset and |
| 26 | And she she used to say used to say , Oh he had a watch a gold watch and he 'd dangle it in front of her . |
| 27 | ‘ We do a cider sack and while most of our beers are about 4% we also do a Porters which is 6% proof . ’ |
| 28 | A PRISONER who did a clothes switch and walked out with visitors to Acklington prison , Northumberland , was on the run yesterday . |
| 29 | What does a survey cover and what does it exclude ? |
| 30 | After , after the years of hardship and loss and then ev everything came as a relief , course we were still at war with the Japanese and people were still in Burma , our soldiers were still in Burma fighting the Japanese , but having said that the main issue was over and it was n't long after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb and of course , I always thought they had to really or else the Japanese would still be fighting now the er they had special dances in the Town Hall for the V E Day and the Americans who did a a jitterbug contest and er I always remember my friend and his sister , who was English , they actually won it against the Yanks he er |