Example sentences of "a [noun] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford pushed aside the willows that hung like a pelmet and came to the rubbish pocket , where he knelt down . |
| 2 | A parents and toddlers group , toy library , bulk buy groups , senior citizens clubs , adult learning classes , bingo , whist drives and all sorts of fund raising activities can use the room as a base and add to the income of the school . |
| 3 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 4 | Once in , they had to dive for a golf ball , put it in a bucket and return to the trapeze to do it all again — fun eh ! |
| 5 | But erm and then at during er before lunch and all that I used to have to go take a bucket and go to the smithy and erm as you may know , there 's a a cooling er tank beside in the in er beside every every every erm blacksmith 's fire and er you know to bo keep the er no t no to keep the nozzle of the |
| 6 | ‘ Right , ’ he said , and then grabbed a cable and slid through a gap Masklin had n't even noticed was there . |
| 7 | He just picked the head up from the floor and wiped the blood off a bit and looked at it . |
| 8 | And , perhaps going back a bit and looking at the history of the last ten years , it is important to realize that we have developed small centres as well as large ones . |
| 9 | I had known that this was pending but when , over the last few weeks , I had enquired when they were going to start out , the reply was always the same , ‘ Oh , I think we 'll wait a bit and hope for some warmer weather . ’ |
| 10 | LAST TIME I meet Bobby Paine was in a hotel room in Milwaukee at 3am , when myself and Brian Setzer were playing indoor golf , drinking a bit and listening to Bobby tell his mad stories about Jerry Lee , Billy Idol and sundry LA psychos — barmy late-night company ! |
| 11 | I thought I 'd go back to Ireland for a bit and go to Clonmacnoise . |
| 12 | Changez waggled the hand a bit and laughed without self-consciousness ; Anwar tried to laugh too . |
| 13 | We all groaned a bit and snivelled like kids , and we were putting it on , but we were only putting it on because underneath we did feel sad seeing our names rubbed out . |
| 14 | What I 'd like to do now is reach for another er set of notes and er , talk about , change , change direction a bit and talk about checking erm short-term programmes . |
| 15 | Oh there are no , you know with the gaff this time , a lot of work like during the week and that and we 've tightened up quite a bit and tried to you know , get ourselves organised . |
| 16 | well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it |
| 17 | His thick , almost grey hair appeared to be worn without a parting and stopped at the lobes of his ears . |
| 18 | Decide to be a winner and learn from your mistakes . |
| 19 | Liotta ( left ) investigates a burglary and goes beyond the call of duty … |
| 20 | Finding a direction and sticking to it is not Pisces ' strongest suit , and the powerful effect of eclipses may well coincide with events that affect your life 's course . |
| 21 | It turns out that if I choose a direction and look at the electron 's spin in relation to that direction then either its axis of rotation points along that direction or it is wholly in the reverse direction . |
| 22 | These bets would be handed over to a runner and signed with each man 's racing nom de plume , be it his nickname or any other name he considered lucky . |
| 23 | The third in the series feature a footballer and talked about a mortgage offering a 2 per cent discount in the first year . |
| 24 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 25 | Regions of the DP-1 cDNA were amplified in a PCR and subcloned into pGEX-2T ( ref. 13 ) . |
| 26 | The basic design , a man leaning on a stick and playing with a dog , is found on archaic fragments from Athens and on several early classical pieces , one from Apollonia Pontica , a Milesian colony on the Black Sea which boasted a statue by Kalamis . |
| 27 | give the candidate a date for a decision and stick to it ; |
| 28 | On Jan. 28 this founding congress suffered a split and walkout by some 100 delegates led by Tadeusz Fiszbach , who criticized the attempt to create a successor party without a sufficiently clear break with the communist past . |
| 29 | An inquiry is underway into how a tube train with passengers on board took off without a driver and travelled for a mile and through a station before being halted by an automatic signal . |
| 30 | Before she married she 'd lived alone in a bedsit and worked in a factory for ten years . |