Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our range is unique in the contract industry and gives us a sales aid second to none . |
| 2 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 3 | Megan unpacked the picnic tea and handed me a plastic cup . |
| 4 | He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp . |
| 5 | I slipped into my jogging gear and handed him a sweater to wear . |
| 6 | She went back into the drawing room and poured herself a whisky and soda . |
| 7 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 8 | The next thing you know , she 'll be asking her Auntie Goldie to hire a shadchan-a matchmaker- and find us a nice , undemanding yeshivah scholar for a husband . |
| 9 | To do this , Mascot uses Dynamic Data Exchange links , which extracts data directly from the accounting system and transfers it a spreadsheet , such as Microsoft Corp 's Excel . |
| 10 | It was Uncle Bean who provided the rock on which she occasionally rested , who kept them in horse feed and bought them the swimming gear she hankered after . |
| 11 | When you do , we will keep the tape running and give you a cue line . |
| 12 | On Friday evening , Seth directed Joey to a car dealer and bought him a maroon 1982 Cutlass Calais for three thousand dollars . |
| 13 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 14 | The prospects may therefore be good for a long-term strategy which aims at both restricting the scale of most operating units and granting them a reasonable degree of operational autonomy in order to make participative democracy a feasible proposition , while developing further the economies of administration , co-ordination , etc. which are at present realised by large-scale enterprises . |
| 15 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 16 | She made a chicken salad and poured herself a glass of chilled white wine , then put them on a tray and took them into her sitting room . |
| 17 | Any account of English book illustration would be inadequate without a tribute to Edmund Evans ( 1826–1905 ) who brought to a wonderful peak of success the revival of the art of colour printing from wood blocks and gave us the delightful colour plate books of Kate Greenaway , ’ Richard E. Doyle , Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't wait to see shear waters again , ’ I said brightly to the Warden when he came to check that we understood about Calor gas , to remind us to boil the drinking water and to tell us the exact procedure of what to do if we fell down a cliff . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if there are no others in the field , an offer of , say , 2½ per cent less than the asking price could be made ; and if the house is somewhat overpriced , try an offer between 5 and 10 per cent less than the asking price and see what the reaction is . |
| 20 | Without all these controls companies will still be making standard phone calls and writing them up afterwards into signed telephone logs and considering them the best records of a transaction . |
| 21 | Could I have his telephone number and give him a ring ? |
| 22 | He returned to the window table and poured himself the dregs of the sherry . |
| 23 | Amazed that the little machine had brought us so far , he gave me his prayer beads and wished us a safe trip , ‘ Allah willing ’ . |
| 24 | Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user . |
| 25 | Asthmatics should learn a relaxation technique and practise it every day so that it can be ‘ turned on ’ at will , whenever an attack seems imminent . |
| 26 | The computer asks you a question via a sound card and gives you a choice of options on screen , and you respond by pressing the relevant button . |
| 27 | ‘ If you want my advice , lovie , you 'll pop her down the Town Hall and find her a decent coat to wear . |
| 28 | Ball 's booking after a rash challenge on West Ham 's Stuart Slater , takes him over the 31 penalty point mark and earns him an automatic two-match ban . |
| 29 | Over by the piano , Mary Bunn squirmed on her piano stool and gave him a one . |
| 30 | Other developments for the backpacker : Coleman are now making their Multifuel stove with a detachable fuel bottle and calling it the Apex stove . |