Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Er , first of all on the comment from Dave in relation to British Gas and the minimum achieved performance level or M A P L er the initials that I 've come to er know and love over the past few months , never having heard of them before . |
| 32 | Through this you , who have thought that the inner and outer struggle was your own , will understand , know and comprehend through the deepest fibres of your being that you are no longer alone and that everything you do matters to someone . |
| 33 | How lovely , thought Winnie , letting her knitting fall and looking at the leaping flames , if she agreed ! |
| 34 | I am a standard , no-frills Earthling , but Goodney , in his white suit , suntan and sliding blond hair , stood out like a pink elephant among the sin-sick funeral directors lurking and cruising against the blood-coloured walls . |
| 35 | In the case of this well-liked fatherly brigadier , it was common knowledge that , although he would accept his chauffeuse 's six shillings , he would then pay all other expenses in order that she would be wined , dined and accommodated in the same style as himself . |
| 36 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disturb you , but could you perhaps spare a little time to come and talk to the Chief Superintendent ? ’ |
| 37 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
| 38 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 39 | In the three Baltic republics and in Georgia it had been decided that to participate would be to acknowledge Soviet constitutional legitimacy , thereby forfeiting the key argument in their independence campaigns , namely that they had been illegally occupied and annexed to the Soviet Union . |
| 40 | For the scientific sections , there are merely notes and abstracts of papers , which nevertheless occupy 176 pages ; they are separately paginated and indexed from the formal reports , which makes these publications confusing to cite . |
| 41 | A rare chance to see our experiences as women validated and endorsed on the big screen in a powerful and yes , entertaining movie about a subject that matters profoundly to us . |
| 42 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 43 | It was postmarked Manchester , the paper was poor , and the writing scrawled and dipped across the stained envelope . |
| 44 | She had n't expected to get much sleep , but exhaustion finally overcame her and she lapsed into a fitful , restless doze , tossing and turning through the long night as dreams haunted her mind . |
| 45 | The proposals must be acceptable to the people and parliament of the United Kingdom as a whole and because of the land frontier with the Republic of Ireland any political arrangement must recognise and provide for the special relationship between both parts of the island . |
| 46 | The Shadowlands crumbled and disappeared below the hungry waves . |
| 47 | Even worse has been a lack of any forward planning to see how the systems should have been installed and integrated with the existing hardware and software . |
| 48 | Arriving around 3.00pm you disembark and check into the luxurious Basle Hilton Hotel for overnight stay . |
| 49 | Dave spun the truck round and we crashed and bumped along the rough track . |
| 50 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
| 51 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
| 52 | The ferry was in ; it rose and fell on the swelling Grönsund . |
| 53 | He rose and fell on the sickening see-saw of his terror and delight . |
| 54 | Its legs were splayed out at awkward angles on the rug , and its flanks rose and fell with the deep breaths of sleep . |
| 55 | The Ironclaw Orcs lived around the Iron Rock for many years , and their fortunes rose and fell with the accustomed regularity of Orc tribes . |
| 56 | Over and over again , for twenty-five minutes , the heads rose and fell before the final triumphant cry of Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 57 | I rose and walked to the other side . |
| 58 | The pupils standing outside burst in to see what was happening and crowded around the empty cage . |
| 59 | Once complete , the engines can be lifted and placed onto the venerable Doane test-bed and rolled outside ready for Larry to begin his monitoring work again . |
| 60 | No mention of the Holy Spirit , you notice : merely a foreshadowing of the role of the disciples in being witnesses to the Messiah who had to suffer and rise from the dead so that repentance and forgiveness could be preached to the nations , beginning from Jerusalem ( Luke 24:46f ) . |