Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 2 | We brought back four tail wheel struts complete with the tyres and axles and everything else on them and I got to weld this high-strength steel onto that carbon steel that was on the , the wheel and we wound up with a nice trailer with four B-Seventeen tail wheels on it . |
| 3 | ‘ I take over the wheel and we lose them , the whole shooting match . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 5 | The boat lurched as his hands slackened on the wheel and it hit the wake of a speeding launch . |
| 6 | Then it was brother Alan 's turn to get behind the wheel and he passed . |
| 7 | doing about sixty and I felt a twitch in the wheel and I thought shit ! |
| 8 | She did n't fall over the wheel and she did pass her test . |
| 9 | jerk and they snap . |
| 10 | I too remember when Darlington was a county borough and we had a lovely town when we were responsible for our own efficiency and everything in the garden was lovely . |
| 11 | Newens 's views were perhaps influenced by his contacts with Ceauşescu and he had written or edited at least three books about Ceauşescu : Nicolae Ceauşescu — the Man , His Ideas and the Achievements on the Road to Socialism ( which appeared in at least three editions between 1972 and 1978 to satisfy popular demand ) , Talking with Nicolae Ceauşescu , and Nicolae Ceauşescu — The Effort to Create a Modern Romania . |
| 12 | It happens in religion and it happens in politics . |
| 13 | He must have been radical in religion and he favoured English support for the cause of the Netherlands , possibly being used by Sir Francis Walsingham [ q.v. ] and Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , to urge this policy on Burghley . |
| 14 | If you are on a site-recce and you hit on an idea or a way of solving your problem , do a dry run . |
| 15 | However , hillwalking is largely safe but there are risks and we have to educate people about these risks if we are going to improve safety . |
| 16 | They probably would n't serve me anyway ; little rich girl on the hill , her friends ‘ dabble ’ in the arts and they do n't take smack and neither does she , really , except on weekends . |
| 17 | But then that question was asked last night erm from one chap about sport versus the arts and I suppose to me it is a quality of life issue erm where do you start an and stop I mean you have a problem when you have a recession do n't you , where you say okay we i we are in a recession we have got limited resources we have to make decisions . |
| 18 | In the morning I went with Dr Viola to the Academy of Arts and there met Professor Dachauer . |
| 19 | Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’ |
| 20 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 21 | The interior of her car was a furnace and she frittered a few moments wandering in the graveyard after opening the car doors to cool it . |
| 22 | However , ‘ Motherese ’ is composed of many different characteristics and it seems reasonable to suppose that there is considerable variation among adults in respect of how far these features are reflected in their speech to young children . |
| 23 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 24 | John , he went up to John 's house , John come and picked up and they back to John 's and John come back to the Phoenix and he had , you know the umbrella things ? |
| 25 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 26 | She said no , she said , he told her if she wanted to go to the expense of a wig , she could get a wig and she wear it when she went out , but when she comes in the house she must take it off , she must not wear that wig |
| 27 | Gemmell just kept in by Crosby and it comes again to Gemmell . |
| 28 | Previously when bottlenecks arose in the benefit delivery system regional or local decisions had to be made that might affect implementation , now there is a central ‘ directorate ’ which is likely to be involved in the examination of policy feasibility and which plays an important part in determining how policy is implemented . |
| 29 | But er , you you we 're gon na make you a nice one and join the bloody club so you 'll be an armchair socialist and we look after you and that 's what they are ! |
| 30 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |