Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got to go there tomorrow , so ’ — he took his hand from the wheel and gave her a quick pat — ‘ put your neb under your wing until after the holidays and see what transpires then . ’ |
| 2 | teachers see it as natural justice ( comparison with colleagues reduces isolation and gives them a yardstick ) ; |
| 3 | One of the porters nips out every day at five thirty to the off-licence and gets me a cold one . ’ |
| 4 | He borrowed someone 's press card and brought her a drink . |
| 5 | The employee behind the check in desk gave me a huge smile and welcomed me to the airport , gave me my seat reservation card and wished me a good journey . |
| 6 | The computer asks you a question via a sound card and gives you a choice of options on screen , and you respond by pressing the relevant button . |
| 7 | So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go . |
| 8 | And we 're very grateful , you 've brought rural interest , you 've brought much wider interest , and you 've brought a great deal of warmth and compassion and interest and time , what more could we say , but to show a token of our appreciation and give you a few flowers to go with that . |
| 9 | Barbara takes off her shirt and wraps a blue chiffon nightie around her waist ; while Elena is in the loo , she opens her purse and shows me a picture of her six-year-old daughter . |
| 10 | Mrs Young , who had paused in her search , finally found her purse and gave me a dollar . |
| 11 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 12 | Put me on the terrace and mix me a Singapore Sling ! ’ |
| 13 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 14 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 15 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
| 16 | He waved the clerk to a seat and served him a cup of watered wine . |
| 17 | When he came out , he thought , he would sit in the driver 's seat and allow himself a daydream . |
| 18 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 19 | I want you to take this neck and make it a neck-through-body Strat-style guitar . ’ |
| 20 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 21 | His purchase of the Kemsley newspaper chain was a step in the overall process of press concentration and gave him a Fleet Street prize , The Sunday Times . |
| 22 | This , of course , relieves a lot of unnecessary muscle tension and teaches me a way of restoring the completeness of the body in a relaxed and coordinated way that had been lost in my early childhood . |
| 23 | No wonder his chairman , Sam Hammam , has hit the roof and called him a mosquito brain . |
| 24 | Having eaten it , he brewed some tea and took her a cup . |
| 25 | Megan unpacked the picnic tea and handed me a plastic cup . |
| 26 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 27 | In the last months of 1989 the people of Central and Eastern Europe take it upon themselves to address the future and make it a different place to be in . |
| 28 | I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches . |
| 29 | I made sure I did n't put on too much weight and set myself a final goal — to get down to 13 stone . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I always walked the seven miles home , but that day the Old Man and Peter Revers came past in the car and offered me a lift . |