Example sentences of "a [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wiltshire Police have settled out of court , making a payment and accepting civil responsibility . |
| 2 | Wexford pushed aside the willows that hung like a pelmet and came to the rubbish pocket , where he knelt down . |
| 3 | It got blown against a thatch-stone and got killed . |
| 4 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 5 | On uneven ground use a base and peg it down or use stones to steady it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Businessman Ron Smith , who owns a printing and publishing firm , said of Mr Lamont 's bold talking : ‘ It 's all technical claptrap . |
| 9 | ‘ I prefer Mr. Carus 's submission that an Orthodox rabbi is pursuing a vocation and has no choice but to accept the Chief Rabbi 's disciplinary decisions . |
| 10 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 11 | Gosh , it 's 9.00pm already , what d' you say we get a carry-out and come back ? |
| 12 | In return the prosecuting authorities withdrew their demand that he appear for questioning in person and chose to issue a summary indictment against him , on Sept. 28 , which dispensed with the need for a trial and involved a maximum fine of only 200,000 yen . |
| 13 | The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’ |
| 14 | Set a limited period for a trial and establish what you will try out and how you will test the results . |
| 15 | Finally , the teacher took a bucket and made a sand castle on top . |
| 16 | She heard the rattle of a bucket and saw Bunny Chaloner walk across the yard swinging the pail cheerfully . |
| 17 | Well we used to get a bucket and throw it over the v over like that . |
| 18 | I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire . |
| 19 | Do n't throw any two products into a bucket and mix them ; they may well destroy each other . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | She had thrown the artichoke leaves into a bucket and turned to slap and stir the milk again . |
| 23 | ‘ In a garrison church , ’ Colonel Ross points out , ‘ when the hymn books or the hassocks disintegrate , the chaplain simply writes a chit and indents the ordnance for more . |
| 24 | The problem comes when you meet a horizontal nogging — the positions of which you can determine with a joist and batten detector . |
| 25 | Water , having penetrated the roofing felt ( this could even be in the middle of the roof ) , could run along a joist and give problems with the wall . |
| 26 | She particularly hated the small kitchen , which was little more than a passageway and had no worksurfaces or cupboards . |
| 27 | Then he saw a stone fall , glance off a crag and hit Corti on the head . |
| 28 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 29 | During a gathering of families at beautiful Seal Park , to christen a grandchild and celebrate the return of the good life after the War , a battle for succession is resolved in Country ( BBC-2 9.00pm ) continuing ‘ The Richard Eyre Season ’ . |
| 30 | I want to look like a racehorse and have long hair and Jim , that 's what I want . |