Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emelia Kanthack commented that she ‘ always approached my East End patients with my very best manners and extended the same little courteous considerations to them that I would have served towards a lady ’ . |
| 2 | We recovered our manners and began a series of , ‘ Thank yous ’ , and , ‘ You are a good man , Mahmoud ’ , and , within seconds , Terry had it tuned to the BBC World Service and its theme , ‘ Lili Bolero ’ . |
| 3 | She pulled hard on the wheel and took the left fork . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The girl smiled shyly up at the big man behind the wheel and got a friendly grin in return . |
| 7 | JUST AS THE PANTING CYCLIST drew ahead of the London to St Alban 's coach the guard hurled an iron ball on a rope into the spokes of the bicycle wheel and felled the rider . |
| 8 | Curtis settled himself behind the wheel and laid the empty can on the passenger seat . |
| 9 | Wycliffe tried to concentrate on the Wheel and to ignore the veritable forest of giant rock pinnacles with which they were surrounded . |
| 10 | Roll out pastry trimmings , then cut into 12 × 1cm/½in strips with a pastry wheel and form a lattice across the flan . |
| 11 | The Doctor immediately threw his weight into the steering wheel and floored the accelerator , sending the battered car down the street at a lopsided angle , the exposed wheel hub throwing up a constant stream of sparks . |
| 12 | Settle behind the soft-grip steering wheel and savour the atmosphere . |
| 13 | He flicks the wheel and slides the front wheels . |
| 14 | as if by instinct , she took the wheel and wrestled the ship under control . |
| 15 | By the time the truck had stopped , Leo was under its offside wheel and starting the long , complicated journey to the spirit world . |
| 16 | Only thirty yards or so separated them , when Curtis saw the Prophet lift a hand from the steering wheel and knock the rear-view mirror out of alignment to avoid being blinded by the glare . |
| 17 | She slid behind the wheel and started the engine , pulling away so sharply she caused the car behind to sound his horn as he braked to avoid her . |
| 18 | He patted her cheek again , then put his hand back on the wheel and started the engine . |
| 19 | ‘ Now 's the time to nail my colours to the mast , throw away the scabbard , buckle to , go the whole hog , cross the Rubicon , grab the bull by the horns , put my shoulder to the wheel and leave a note out for the milkman . ’ |
| 20 | She started the car with a jerk and hit the bumper of the car in front . |
| 21 | On 10 November 1921 , a new agreement was drawn up between the Company and Croydon Corporation for maintenance of track within the Borough and to permit the construction of a curve at the top of Tamworth Road , only to be used for the transfer of cars . |
| 22 | He then moved to the London Borough of Hackney which is arguably the most deprived inner London borough and has a high proportion of ethnic minority residents . |
| 23 | Activated lipocytes ( myofibroblasts ) are also the major source of the interstitial collagens ( type I and III ) which are produced in excess during liver fibrosis and cirrhosis and replace the normal basement membrane matrix . |
| 24 | They were there to assist the papacy in its work of extending the Christian religion and maintaining a just society . |
| 25 | All these factors fan the bias against religion and produce a fundamental obstacle for RE — that of the radical secularism of Western society . |
| 26 | In this , insurers have to pool good and bad risks and charge a standard premium to all subscribers . |
| 27 | Encourage research and development in the recognition , assessment and management of engineering risks and disseminate the findings . |
| 28 | If there is a drop in demand the informal outfit has to carry the risks and absorb the shock of fluctuations in the market . |
| 29 | ‘ Young workers have to take most of the risks and face the unrestricted and poor employment protection of adult workers , but get few of the benefits as most have no recourse to social protection when employment or training places are not available to them , ’ the report says . |
| 30 | ‘ Young workers have to take most of the risks and face the unrestricted and poor employment protection of adult workers , but get few of the benefits ’ |