Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the sky clouds over , the surface broods , pouts and stamps its foot like a child forced to spend its holidays indoors . ’ |
| 2 | She pants and pouts and poses and scweams . |
| 3 | Clearly this artist was going to keep me fully entertained as she peered alternately at me and my picture , producing a range of squints , pouts and grimaces that Rowan Atkinson might envy . |
| 4 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 5 | The dilators were removed and the introducer sheath inserted into the gall bladder and secured by inflating a small ( 1 ml ) baloon or by deploying a helical plastic anchor . |
| 6 | They were the 70.2% of a stratified random sample of women in this age group who accepted an invitation to have ultrasonography of the gall bladder and to answer questions about bowel function , etc . |
| 7 | Under a local anaesthetic , a whisk-like device will be passed down a fine tube into the gall bladder and rotated at 30,000 revolutions a minute , mincing the gallstones to a paste which is then sucked out through a tube . |
| 8 | Just when you think you 've got it straight , along comes the Fool with his pig 's bladder and whops you on the nose . |
| 9 | Continence is the ability to control the contents of the bladder and to pass urine only when you want to . |
| 10 | She is still agile but is unable to control her bladder and has anaemia and a recurring chest problem . |
| 11 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 12 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 13 | Having spoken of the vital importance of the navy for a trading power , Jervois turned to the urgent need to protect London from an invader , because London was not like Moscow , which the Russians had abandoned before Napoleon and survived , but like Paris . |
| 14 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 15 | Emelia Kanthack commented that she ‘ always approached my East End patients with my very best manners and extended the same little courteous considerations to them that I would have served towards a lady ’ . |
| 16 | She was glad of Everthorpe 's guidance , though she disliked his manners and resented his evident desire to stage-manage her arrival at Pringle 's . |
| 17 | ‘ Now , now , ’ Miss Louise called back sharply , ‘ mind your manners and let them in . ’ |
| 18 | This may be enough to make him lose interest but , if he persists , discourage him briefly and matter-of-factly , explaining that such words show bad manners and offend some people , who will like him less if he insists on using them . |
| 19 | We recovered our manners and began a series of , ‘ Thank yous ’ , and , ‘ You are a good man , Mahmoud ’ , and , within seconds , Terry had it tuned to the BBC World Service and its theme , ‘ Lili Bolero ’ . |
| 20 | Support for Scott could have come from Stanley 's Parliamentary Under Secretary , Henry Baillie , who was a personal friend of Manners and had been a supporter of Young England . |
| 21 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 22 | They had such nice manners and treated me like one of their own , so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones . |
| 23 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 24 | When Joe visits London , it is a failure because Pip is embarrassed by Joe 's manners and begins to think of him as common , he then begins to neglect his background and the people who used to mean a lot to him . |
| 25 | Second , because governments and ministers still retain political objectives and motivations , they will attempt to guard jealously information within their purview and to use it in such ways as to influence and direct public opinion . |
| 26 | Mistress Southwell was a Roman Catholic and with several others sought to surround the events of the Queen Elizabeth 's last illness and death with ill-omens and to suggest that she had not died in a state of grace ’ . |
| 27 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 28 | He planted trees in carefully placed clumps and had two huge lakes created near the palace . |
| 29 | P. procumbens forms neat clumps and has scented flowers , while P. axillaris tends to develop into a small shrub . |
| 30 | She was overwhelmed by a mixture of terror and relief as he left her at the wheel and went forward to free the line . |