Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 2 | The dilators were removed and the introducer sheath inserted into the gall bladder and secured by inflating a small ( 1 ml ) baloon or by deploying a helical plastic anchor . |
| 3 | Under a local anaesthetic , a whisk-like device will be passed down a fine tube into the gall bladder and rotated at 30,000 revolutions a minute , mincing the gallstones to a paste which is then sucked out through a tube . |
| 4 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 5 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
| 6 | A unique mechanism , incorporated within the wheel and made in cupro-nickel , ensures perfect tensioning . |
| 7 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 8 | In the car , my colleague put his elbow on the wheel and drove with his chin cupped in his hands . |
| 9 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 10 | As he waits at a stop-light somewhere out beyond the freightyards he drums his fingers on the steering wheel and gazes in front of him , thinking . |
| 11 | Until Rainbow spins her wheel and hurtles towards towards them . |
| 12 | Drivers of both groups said that drunken passengers were a problem : they ‘ messed about ’ in the car , grabbed the steering wheel and pulled on the handbrake . |
| 13 | She slumped in the far corner of the white Corniche and watched her mother nervously hugging the steering wheel and peering at the road ahead . |
| 14 | They 'll take it in turns to man the winches … and wheel and cook in the galley … |
| 15 | The jeep continued to bounce and surge along the rutted , forlorn track that led , Robyn prayed , to the barn and to help , for several more minutes , while she gripped the wheel and perched on the edge of her seat , peering through the rain for any signs of civilisation . |
| 16 | Large figurines mainly thrown on the potter 's wheel and decorated in vase-painter 's technique are known from several Greek sites in the late Bronze Age ; and this may be a line where we shall one day be able to trace continuity of production through the dark ages . |
| 17 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 18 | An instant later she felt fitzAlan 's arm jerk and slacken about her . |
| 19 | Speaking on implementing the guidelines laid down by the fifth plenum , government spokesperson Yuan Mu said on Nov. 22 : " The main problem behind the many mistakes which have occurred in China in the past lies within the party and it is therefore necessary first to focus attention on the party itself in solving the problem " ( of " dilution and weakening of party leadership , neglect of ideological and political work , and neglect of the building of party style " ) . |
| 20 | They asked the Parish Council , therefore , to approach Wyre Borough and ask for help with tasks such as mowing etc . |
| 21 | The second had primary biliary cirrhosis and died from a variceal bleed while under review . |
| 22 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
| 23 | THE convicted Watergate figure Charles Colson , once known as ‘ the toughest of the tough ’ in the Nixon White House , won a million-dollar prize yesterday for bringing religion and hope to prisons . |
| 24 | In these struggles , Bourdieu generalizes the model from Weber 's sociology of religion and speaks of avant-garde ‘ prophets ’ supporting heterodoxy and modernist autonomization in struggle versus bureaucratic ‘ priests ’ who support orthodoxy . |
| 25 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 26 | Communist fractions , of course , remained in being but they did not breach the basic principle of British trade unionism that there should be no separate organizations based on ideology or religion and standing in opposition to the TUC . |
| 27 | ‘ Garbage wrapped in silk is still garbage and stinks as such , my friend . |
| 28 | This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot . |
| 29 | In a tribal village , in Africa say , a boy is born to a particular woman who , obeying the customs of her people , proceeds to rear him either under conditions of high sociability or relative isolation and according to a particular regime of toilet training and weaning . |
| 30 | They are not to be looked at in isolation and followed to the letter , but if you 're not sure about style , they will give you some useful ideas . |