Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat lurched as his hands slackened on the wheel and it hit the wake of a speeding launch . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All they wanted was to live out their lives in a peaceful and financially comfortable exile and they had no thought of putting themselves or their positions at risk by indulging in some political adventure . |
| 5 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 6 | What we had to do was pop out to buy daddy a card and we got a paper and we got some biscuits and cake for tea for tomorrow . |
| 7 | I think he laid a joker card and I had a hand card up , so he had to do a kiss my hand . |
| 8 | I think I could survive on my own in New York if I had a credit card and I found a nice hotel like Kevin . |
| 9 | We shook hands on the deal and I grabbed the handles and began to push my first cock sparrow back over the bridge towards the Whitechapel Road . |
| 10 | They wanted it to be rough sounding and we had a lot of discussions . |
| 11 | the Sergeant started up the jeep and we entered the cornfield at speed , heading in the direction of the first three canisters . |
| 12 | The girl had not regained consciousness and she had a very high fever . |
| 13 | Now cast iron , if you are in the metal workshops and you are hitting something with a hammer and you hit the vice instead , Mr will throw a scranny at you . |
| 14 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through the window and tore down the curtains . |
| 15 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through a window and tore down the curtains . |
| 16 | It is unfortunate that the CACs were seen as a political football and they provide an interesting indication of what might possibly happen were all legal services to be funded from local or central government . |
| 17 | He played semi-pro football and he founded a rugby club . |
| 18 | We play football and I score a goal , mainly because everyone except Stewpid is playing so badly that it 's difficult to miss … . |
| 19 | Moving to fine china , there was a very considerable overseas sales decline , particularly in Canada where there were lots of major retailers going bankrupt , but despite that , sales were over two hundred million for the fourth year in succession and we had a record December . |
| 20 | Her hand fell away from the switch and she took a step towards the typists ' room , her head cocked . |
| 21 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 22 | I showed him our itinerary and he read the names aloud slowly and haltingly as if thee were the names of some distant land whose pronunciation he was unsure of . |
| 23 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 24 | It was a sudden , painless collapse and I had no chance to do anything . |
| 25 | It is almost an affectionate tirade and she handled a male heckler very , very gently . |
| 26 | The whole team caught the bug and you know the rest . |
| 27 | This was n't his first encounter with Stephen 's rival and he knew the woman seated on the other side of the high table was a formidable opponent , probably more dangerous than the King , and possessing in full measure the strong will and harsh determination that had characterised her father and grandfather . |
| 28 | His wife dies in the opening few minutes of the movie and he spends the rest of his life mourning her . |
| 29 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 30 | Abolish the cohabitation rule and you establish the right of a mistress to draw SB in her own right . |