Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked to clarify his intended future playing policy , he said : ‘ Have a look and see what the team does in Spain , see how it plays and then we 'll talk about it . ’ |
| 2 | Right , so now we 've got round to what we can do for the casualty , let's have a look and see what the body 's trying to do here and then we 'll say how you 'll help them a bit more . |
| 3 | There they will hire a minibus and drive themselves the 1,000 kilometres overland to Bophuthatswana . |
| 4 | I prised off a scab and gave it the tongue test . |
| 5 | The officer did not invite the defendant to express a preference for giving blood or urine but warned him of the consequences of failure to provide a specimen and gave him the opportunity to put forward any reasons why a specimen of blood could not be taken by a doctor . |
| 6 | After a large crusade the Jeffreys would appoint a leader and give him the task of planting a new church with the fruits of the crusade . |
| 7 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 8 | In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle . |
| 9 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 10 | Perhaps he would just hand her a sleeping-bag and offer her the tent … |
| 11 | Should she do a U-turn and sell him the house ? she wondered . |
| 12 | He gave him a document and showed him the photocopying room . |
| 13 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |
| 14 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's all right , but his eldest boy 's been in trouble once or twice … pay them a visit and see what the boy 's doing now , if he 's got any work . |
| 16 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 17 | So you 've got the right idea of dividing it by eight , but you needed to take it on a stage and see what the was . |
| 18 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 19 | 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 . |