Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] and [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it .
2 It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers .
3 She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her .
4 By 1618–19 output had improved sufficiently , it seems , to warrant the building of a water-powered stamp-mill at a site believed to be at the foot of Red Dell or Thriddle and which , despite its altitude , was well placed to serve the mines about there which would now include the newly discovered God 's Blessing at the head of the dell and which like its namesake ( almost ) in Newlands Valley near Keswick , was highly esteemed but mistakenly so .
5 They have an arrangement with the University and they have their own buildings , and they collaborate with the people here , mostly in Engineering .
6 But the ball cannoned into a tree , back on to the course and he salvaged his par to get into the play-off .
7 He waved a languid hand ; the pale material of his sleeve caught the light and she turned her head fractionally toward it .
8 From its shelter the Corporal and I stuck our snouts up .
9 Mrs Peterson poured water from the ewer and he washed his hands .
10 The old man turned the key and I saw my chance .
11 As he started up the car and we made our way further round the island , Robins explained , ‘ They 're good sports , but every new face is welcome .
12 There was nothing of apparent interest in the lavatory and they made their way into the robing vestry .
13 Most of the towns were on or near the coast and they exploited their site advantages , capitalizing on their access to sea routes and on the fertile soils of their hinterlands .
14 Hugh asked after his father-in-law had wandered off into the shadows at the end of the terrace and they heard his stick tapping along the stone floors .
15 On that occasion Lyle missed the cut and he admitted his record in the event is ‘ diabolical ’ .
16 little dog at one of the horse and they kick its legs and that was a nasty blamed the dog .
17 She heard the voice again , over and over , calling her name , and then gradually she realised that it did n't come from the dream and she opened her eyes , staring breathless into the darkness .
18 murmured the girl and she squeezed his hand .
19 He pounded along the passage and I heard his shouts in the Kitchen " Tristan !
20 The girls became shrews and harridans : they screamed at the help and they smothered their children .
21 As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par .
22 ‘ Never , though he did say his local picture house was the Pavilion and I know his mother took her loaves to be baked at a place called Jimmy McFadden 's bakery , but they 're not in the phone book , either of them .
23 A cold wind had picked up since she had arrived at the bar and she rubbed her arms quickly before picking her way through a sea of discarded newspaper to a metal drum and ducked down behind it , her eyes riveted on the door .
24 I think that 's , that 's all we can do at the moment and I take your point Mr , thank you .
25 I 'm just learning to drive at the moment and I find its more for my independence than any thing else
26 but that surprised the man in the queue and yet interestingly I think that and she said I was right in my assumption that that is part of the partnership philosophy of John Lewis that they work in partnership with their staff and in partnership with the community and they make their profit which is generated to start through the community which they sell to and therefore they quietly give back without wanting to play their own trumpets and in a sense I think that 's how it should be .
27 ‘ I just pin the papers up in the dressing-room and it does my job for me .
28 ’ Athelstan tugged him by the sleeve and they made their way across the deserted bailey to the steps leading up to the parapet walk .
29 We have also encouraged the new secretary-general to reform the secretariat and we applaud his first achievements in that area .
30 can be the same inside leg measurement , but different heights , so I said yes that 's true , it 's all according how long or short you are in the body and I said my son 's short in the waist
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