Example sentences of "and a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nestled on a mountain terrace nearly 1,000 feet above the azure sea , from here the views are magnificent and a cablecar links you to Taormina Beach below . |
| 2 | Juliet tapped , and a voice told them to go in . |
| 3 | He shouted , and a voice answered him in Welsh . |
| 4 | Getting on to the remains of the top of the pod had been relatively straightforward , although Daak had tried to insist on being the last one out and she 'd had to threaten him with troopers ' oaths and a blaster to convince him that gallantry was inappropriate . |
| 5 | Nearly half did n't know about the official guidelines and a quarter admitted they had no monitoring procedures . |
| 6 | ‘ I went out to see what was going on and a policeman told us to evacuate the area . |
| 7 | A head and a chest faced him , half-hidden . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 9 | On returning to the surface , he carelessly looked away from where he had placed the briar and a snake ate it , whole . |
| 10 | Er got two guides , a guide and a driver to tell you the truth . |
| 11 | It had its own inquiry desk , and a girl took me to Lennis at once . |
| 12 | But the Cup defeat brought out the team 's fighting qualities , and a resurgence took them to the League Championship with 58 points , four ahead of Aston Villa , and with 118 goals . |
| 13 | We need penitence for these , and a determination to set them right , and above all the confident belief that God is always at work to bring blessing out of everything , however seemingly tragic and hopeless . |
| 14 | Concomitant with the mystical theology inherited by the medieval English mystics , and also governing their thought and expression was a dialectic about the mode of living which enabled mystical experience and a vocabulary to express it . |
| 15 | I was walkin' 'ome to me Connie this afternoon , and a bloke stopped me an' spoke to me . |
| 16 | Yet the very specially acute sense of deprivation found in the shorter of the two versions to be examined here argues the recognition of the possibility of the presence of just such joy ; " absence is not non-existence , and we are therefore entitled to repeat , " " come , come , come , come : " " " and both Rolle 's meditations on the Passion are such powerful works precisely because he enacts a sense of the gap between the body of sin and the joy of God and a longing to close it through penitence and love . |
| 17 | And I do not think that Helen is unusual or unfathomable in translating this into a hatred of her own body , a fear of its femininity , unpredictability and curviness , and a longing to keep it all ‘ under control ’ . |
| 18 | The fact that he was black and a Tory gave him a value out of proportion to his contribution to the local Party , so he was frequently trotted out at functions , and encouraged to ask questions of visiting speakers . |
| 19 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 20 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 21 | One day it took us a day and a half to get it back again . |
| 22 | ‘ He has maintained his innocence throughout and has been fully vindicated by a jury who took only an hour and a half to find him not guilty . |
| 23 | A mule began to bray in alarm and a Myrcan struck it at once with his staff until it fell silent , blood oozing from its nose . |
| 24 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 25 | Buyers are given assembly instructions and a video to help them in the building of their car , and Mr Nearn maintains that the kits are not difficult to put together . |
| 26 | Re remote control yes , well my son has one of those he has an electric garage door on his house , and a copper frisked him before he went in last season cos he , he 's a younger bloke and er he said what 's this and he pulled it out of his pocket , he said it 's to open my garage door with he said what do you think it is a death ray or something yeah . |
| 27 | Now you might think presentation and a system do they go together ? |
| 28 | If you 're in your car and a man approaches you , do n't open your window . |
| 29 | I saw the cat hanging from a tree and a man beating it with a stick . |
| 30 | Thus we free ourselves from our chains , and are raised into regions high above sadness and a calm engulfs us and a burden falls from our shoulders . |