Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled hard on the wheel and took the left fork . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The girl smiled shyly up at the big man behind the wheel and got a friendly grin in return . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Curtis settled himself behind the wheel and laid the empty can on the passenger seat . |
| 7 | Wycliffe tried to concentrate on the Wheel and to ignore the veritable forest of giant rock pinnacles with which they were surrounded . |
| 8 | Roll out pastry trimmings , then cut into 12 × 1cm/½in strips with a pastry wheel and form a lattice across the flan . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Settle behind the soft-grip steering wheel and savour the atmosphere . |
| 11 | He flicks the wheel and slides the front wheels . |
| 12 | as if by instinct , she took the wheel and wrestled the ship under control . |
| 13 | By the time the truck had stopped , Leo was under its offside wheel and starting the long , complicated journey to the spirit world . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He patted her cheek again , then put his hand back on the wheel and started the engine . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | She started the car with a jerk and hit the bumper of the car in front . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They were there to assist the papacy in its work of extending the Christian religion and maintaining a just society . |
| 23 | All these factors fan the bias against religion and produce a fundamental obstacle for RE — that of the radical secularism of Western society . |
| 24 | The magic solution has lost its power — although if you want another performance just re-heat and re-cool the beaker … to be supersaturated means to have more dissolved than there ought to be … the cold supersaturated solution almost literally did not know what to do . |
| 25 | Rural people in most countries suffer from isolation and lack a sense of solidarity or the opportunity to influence decision making . ’ |
| 26 | They did , however , want to experience this new approach in isolation and to transfer the lessons . |
| 27 | Carefully unroll the sponge and remove the paper . |
| 28 | When the button is pressed and pressure is released , the Polygas propellant desorbs from the sponge and operates a piston or compresses a bag of the product . |
| 29 | Brian Laban dons his chest wig and flexes the huge muscles of Britain 's ultimate sports cars |
| 30 | Another consequence was that the TUC was forced to push through its reorganization and to form the General Council , an alternative to its Parliamentary Committee , as its executive body . |