Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I take over the wheel and we lose them , the whole shooting match . ’ |
| 2 | We brought back four tail wheel struts complete with the tyres and axles and everything else on them and I got to weld this high-strength steel onto that carbon steel that was on the , the wheel and we wound up with a nice trailer with four B-Seventeen tail wheels on it . |
| 3 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 4 | The boat lurched as his hands slackened on the wheel and it hit the wake of a speeding launch . |
| 5 | or abilities and build on it cos at the moment everybody 's re-inventing the wheel and you 're making a lot of work in my opinion . |
| 6 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 7 | Then it was brother Alan 's turn to get behind the wheel and he passed . |
| 8 | doing about sixty and I felt a twitch in the wheel and I thought shit ! |
| 9 | She did n't fall over the wheel and she did pass her test . |
| 10 | jerk and they snap . |
| 11 | The equation represents the limiting case at infinite dilution and it is necessary to extrapolate for a series of solutions to c = 0 in order to calculate M n . |
| 12 | I too remember when Darlington was a county borough and we had a lovely town when we were responsible for our own efficiency and everything in the garden was lovely . |
| 13 | There is now a firm grip on the conditions affecting the health of the populace of the borough and it is certain , given time , the innovations put into practice during the past few years will prove to be of enormous benefit , particularly to the health of infants and mothers of West Ham . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State represents an outer London borough and he would be surprised if I did not at least briefly mention the position in the London borough of Barnet . |
| 15 | To the Protestants , according to Knox , she complained about opposition to her policy from the Catholics and Châtelherault ; only if the crown matrimonial was granted would she have sufficient authority , and ‘ then devise ye what ye please in matters of religion and they shall be granted ’ . |
| 16 | This doctrine of ‘ last things ’ was the first systematized eschatology in the history of religion and it profoundly influenced Judaism , Christianity , and Islam . |
| 17 | The target of the Enlightenment philosophers was the prejudices of religion and it is possible to find the term being used in other contexts without the negative connotation . |
| 18 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |
| 19 | I have lost interest in religion and it is your fault ! ’ |
| 20 | It happens in religion and it happens in politics . |
| 21 | but I do n't see the real relevance and I think one of the reasons that erm I mean I , I hear it and I know that Freud was very critical of religion and I , I , I think for some very good reasons , |
| 22 | From the age of thirty , according to Foxe , he devoted his whole mind to the study of religion and he was a member of a group which included Tyndale , Coverdale and Latimer who met to discuss the writings of Luther and other Reformers at the White Horse Inn in Cambridge . |
| 23 | He must have been radical in religion and he favoured English support for the cause of the Netherlands , possibly being used by Sir Francis Walsingham [ q.v. ] and Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , to urge this policy on Burghley . |
| 24 | If you are on a site-recce and you hit on an idea or a way of solving your problem , do a dry run . |
| 25 | Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’ |
| 26 | There was a pool of isolation and she was in the middle of it . |
| 27 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 28 | The interior of her car was a furnace and she frittered a few moments wandering in the graveyard after opening the car doors to cool it . |
| 29 | Though late afternoon , it was like walking into a blast furnace and she was glad she 'd twisted her dark , glossy hair into a knot on top of her head . |
| 30 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |