Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can remove poor Flora from that sink of a school and send her to some nice nuns . ’ |
| 2 | You can either record this and play it back or stand in front of a friend and let them criticize and make helpful suggestions . |
| 3 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 4 | I WOULD rather take my children into the main bar or lounge of a pub and expect them to sit sensibly and reasonably quietly so that we can all relax , drink , talk and eat in a proper pub atmosphere . |
| 5 | If you took all the cells of a swallow and put them together at random , the chance that the resulting object would fly is not , for everyday purposes , different from zero . |
| 6 | ‘ Stand in front of a mirror and rehearse them , ’ he instructed . |
| 7 | Jinny was so amazed that she stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence and let him say goodbye and make their apologies all over again . |
| 8 | A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea . |
| 9 | Then I would be an artisan , quietly learning my trade at the feet of a master and passing it on in turn to my apprentices . |
| 10 | Oh he 'll get hold of a hedgehog and shake it and with that he 'll come out with prickles all on the end |
| 11 | They use a colourless paste which has no effect on the skin but has the peculiar property of altering the molecular structure of a metal and making it malleable . |
| 12 | In 1989 , a resident of Penghu , disgusted at the continuing slaughter of dolphins , had purchased some victims of a drive and released them . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes she says she 'll take the kids out to the middle of a lake and drop them in . |
| 14 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 15 | You then place it in the neck of a balloon and blow it up and tie it with the piece of paper inside . |
| 16 | Bring back Diary Of A Game and leave us poor old 64 owners alone . |
| 17 | InConcert automatically prompts and tracks all tasks in the workflow process to locate the right documents and software tools for each step of a project and deliver them at the right time to the right people . |
| 18 | Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer . |
| 19 | He 'd like to get hold of a gun and blow them all away . |
| 20 | But even on the floor , he can still take command of a situation and turn it to his advantage . |
| 21 | In this type program , the pupils create a model of a situation and test it to see it reflects reality . |
| 22 | Think of five atoms in the middle of a chain and label them in sequence , 1 to 5 . |
| 23 | The brewers appear to see this as a chance to think of a figure and double it . |
| 24 | A couple of miles up the road , a UDR patrol leaped out of a ditch and stopped us . |
| 25 | A violent , ruthless man ( released from Prison early ) gained control of a section and placed it at loggerheads with another section . |
| 26 | We cut a mask for my face out of a balaclava and made it black with boot polish . |
| 27 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 28 | Properly installed — and full instructions accompany the Sleep-safe Smoke Alarm — a smoke detector will warn you of smouldering in the earliest stages of a fire and give you the vital few minutes that really could make the difference between death and survival . |
| 29 | Another indicated the back of a diner and told them it was Al Capone . |
| 30 | Unlike Jeanne of Artois , whom he judged to be ‘ prodigal and immoral ’ , the pope thought Margaret well able take the place of a mother and commended her to philip V. She had in effect governed Béarn , and governed it well , since Gaston I 's death in 1315 , but was to die in 1319 . |