Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After three weeks most peace went mad , but very quietly , and without an argument , but the strong minded continued to stand fast and weather the quiet and unargumentative storm . |
| 2 | The latter and associated rubber air pipes caught alight and set the main avionics loom on fire . |
| 3 | Resolute again , as though energised by his own words and thoughts , he told Theo to stand firm and take the broad view . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's absolute humbug for cricket 's administrators not to come clean and tell the cricketing world everything that took place inside Lord 's famous pavilion that Sunday . ’ |
| 5 | In particular , it covers running and controlling the offline system , managing the Hard Copy and Module Version Management facilities , and running the LIFESPAN Validation Program . |
| 6 | The agreements with Penge Council required the company to contribute £6,100 towards the reinstatement of pavements and any road widening necessary and to pave the whole width of the road with wood blocks in front of all places of worship . |
| 7 | On the following evening , her plan laid , Joan again found an excuse to retire early and put the first part of the scheme into action . |
| 8 | Having said that and confirmed the conventional wisdom , however , Butler and Stokes went further . |
| 9 | The UCC 's Division of Communication meets yearly and feeds the major issues and needs to Kristine who then works with committees to help educate and work alongside congregations . |
| 10 | Few in a packed , drenched stadium would have bet on either outcome in a first half where England 's attacking approach was skidding and slipping off course while the bigger Boks dug in , drove hard and let the awesome boot of Botha do the rest . |
| 11 | Okay , I expect everybody 's noticed seven and noticed the legal proceedings that followed that . |
| 12 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 13 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 14 | Why could n't the boy just keep still and watch the bloody film ? |
| 15 | England No 2 Laurie McMenemy arrived late and missed the Corky and Ferdinand goals — but he saw Deane spurn a gift of an equaliser before finally striking with a header . |
| 16 | His new found maturity on and off the court is impressing many and diluting the controversial image he has carried with him since turning professional four years ago . |
| 17 | Prepare a solution of algae control liquid and let the cooled-off rocks steep in it . |
| 18 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 19 | A PENSIONER caused havoc after getting lost and driving the wrong way up a motorway . |
| 20 | And yet this creature who so violates the natural order and traditional gender divisions by dressing as a man also does things better than a man : ‘ I should draw first and prove the quicker man ’ , she says ( iv . |
| 21 | The resulting population of adherent cells , subsequently designated monocytes , was more than 95% esterase positive and showed the morphological characteristics of monocytes as determined by Giemsa stained preparations . |
| 22 | His dragon , Nightfang , goes berserk and routs the Dark Elves . |
| 23 | What would make ten and put the small one first . |
| 24 | But Armstrong was found Guilty and became the only solicitor to go to the gallows for murder . |
| 25 | The task of examining this and extracting the full mechanism would be nearly impossible of achievement . |
| 26 | Runaways were commonplace , and I remember when a bull , on its way back to Milford Station , thought enough was enough , broke free and terrorised the neighbouring streets for about half-an-hour before recapture . |
| 27 | We started house-hunting and found the perfect place on a new rural estate within ten minutes ' drive of the café . |
| 28 | Although the same bolts worked loose and caused the 1980 derailment , Boocock said that there was ‘ no question of a bearing failure on that occasion ’ . |
| 29 | They were the first to study magic and remain the greatest masters of it in the known world . |
| 30 | Hence the resolve in Bonn , so far , to keep quiet and hope the last Soviet soldier goes home before the end of 1994 . |