Example sentences of "a [noun] and [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He took off his shoes , climbed into a chair , rolled a cigarette and poured himself a coffee . |
| 32 | ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ? |
| 33 | In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle . |
| 34 | Mr. Morgan understood the deceased to want to make a will and handed him a piece of paper . |
| 35 | Jesus taught that discipleship was a journey and following him a narrow path ( Mk. 8.34 ) . |
| 36 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 37 | Perhaps he would just hand her a sleeping-bag and offer her the tent … |
| 38 | Have you ever watched seasoned knitted diving into cartons of yarn , coming up with a cone and giving it a good sniff ? |
| 39 | Should she do a U-turn and sell him the house ? she wondered . |
| 40 | He held out a hand and gave me a smile . |
| 41 | As they approached , they could hear that he was whistling merrily as he walked and , upon seeing them , he raised a hand and gave them a frank open smile . |
| 42 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 43 | If your father is a millionaire and gives you a five pound note for your birthday , then you might feel a little hard done by ; such a gift would be given out of his riches ; it would n't be according to his riches . |
| 44 | Have you ever walked up to a fox and given it a cuddle without it trying to bite your arms off ? |
| 45 | He already seemed to know a hell of a lot and taught me a lot about living , philosophy and music . |
| 46 | I also prefer it because I believe it is more sensitive than a link-leger and gives me a better chance of hooking fish . |
| 47 | At last , jamming a fist and then a boot between rock and shrunken ice , I fingered a flake and heaved myself a cheval onto a sunlit stance , metres from the summit . |
| 48 | He gave him a document and showed him the photocopying room . |
| 49 | She ordered herself a brandy and downed it a little too fast . |
| 50 | Two , two or three week 's running Jenny came up on a weekend and brought us a bar of chocolate each |
| 51 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 52 | Got myself a bottle and got him a bottle . |
| 53 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |
| 54 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |
| 55 | ‘ He 's all right , but his eldest boy 's been in trouble once or twice … pay them a visit and see what the boy 's doing now , if he 's got any work . |
| 56 | Encouraging each governor to adopt a class and giving them an opportunity to report back on their visits helps governors to have a sense of purpose and enables them to frame general reports and LEA/DES regulations in the context of their adopted classes and children . |
| 57 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 58 | So you 've got the right idea of dividing it by eight , but you needed to take it on a stage and see what the was . |
| 59 | It has been said before but we must go on saying it until it happens : call a referundum and give us a vote . |
| 60 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |