Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Just when you think you 've got it straight , along comes the Fool with his pig 's bladder and whops you on the nose . |
| 6 | Continence is the ability to control the contents of the bladder and to pass urine only when you want to . |
| 7 | She is still agile but is unable to control her bladder and has anaemia and a recurring chest problem . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was overwhelmed by a mixture of terror and relief as he left her at the wheel and went forward to free the line . |
| 10 | Sometimes during the mate 's watch I took the wheel and learnt to steer . |
| 11 | I used three of them : first , free wheel and push . |
| 12 | This can be steep , making progress forward difficult — you have to hold one wheel and push hard on the other just to stop yourself from rolling down it . |
| 13 | Above him on the poop , a skeleton , face a white , leering mask , held the wheel and grinned wickedly down at him . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 15 | Nigel Buxton , 41 , swerved snarply across the road when he lifted both his hands off the wheel and ran them through his hair , Didcot magistrates heard . |
| 16 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
| 17 | ‘ Aye , after a battle once you have recited your thanksgivings , or prior to a campaign , while you are girding your soul for a crusade as now , as blessedly now — many of you may yearn to kneel in your cell with saw and magnilens , with rasp and buffing wheel and carbide graver , with brush and inkhorn . |
| 18 | She pulled hard on the wheel and took the left fork . |
| 19 | Rory turned her attention to the road ahead , gripped by two almost equally powerful temptations — the first being to take her hands off the wheel and shake Candy by the shoulders for being so infuriating . |
| 20 | A unique mechanism , incorporated within the wheel and made in cupro-nickel , ensures perfect tensioning . |
| 21 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 22 | Somehow the guidebook will always find a chink in this armoury and creep out on the crux move , to wheel and flutter its way to the boulders below . |
| 23 | Forget , he says , the fact that the people ( I am desperately trying to avoid using the words ‘ Red Indian ’ and refuse to opt for the hopelessly inadequate euphemism , Native American ) whom the Spaniards and others found had not discovered the wheel and had no draught animals . |
| 24 | A moment to consider this , then my father had closed the door gently , returned to the wheel and had proceeded to continue the tour of the three villages — a tour , Mr Charles assured me , that was completed thereafter in near silence . |
| 25 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 26 | The Doctor grabbed the manual locking wheel and began to spin it rapidly . |
| 27 | That wo n't give anything away , ’ cajoled Deana , and it was at that moment that an open-topped , low-slung dark red sports car purred to an impatient halt directly in front of the foyer 's big glass doors and the unmistakable silhouette of Tom Russell sprang with athletic grace from behind the wheel and began to stride across the cement footpath towards the entrance . |
| 28 | He risked a soaking of foam as he darted out to cut his mooring lines , then twisted Dream Baby 's wheel and thrust her throttles forward . |
| 29 | A young lad hopped from car to car taking their money , lights sparked and flashed above them and as the cars began to move Belinda 's laugh could be heard above the music while Rachel thought Danny would explode with pride as he took the wheel and manoeuvred the little car round the track . |
| 30 | After school Rose loved to draw her out , to tease out of her reckless opinions and to watch her quick mind wheel and tack as she strained to defend what was usually insupportable . |