Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 2 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 3 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 4 | Moldovan President Mircea Snegur imposed a state of emergency and direct presidential rule on March 28 , and called on the population to prepare to fight for the " motherland " , following a month of skirmishes and fighting in the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic [ for formation in September 1990 see p. 37723 ] . |
| 5 | Cassettes were reviewed and discussed in type-written fanzines and distributed in the same manner as cassettes , hand to hand . |
| 6 | My father loved old time Music Hall songs and hits from the Gay Nineties like ‘ Good-bye , Dolly Grey ’ , and ‘ Soldiers of the Queen ’ , and one of his favourites was ‘ Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 7 | The seminar is being organised by WACC 's North American regional association and hosted by The United Church of Canada under the theme ‘ Legacy : 500 Years of Evangelization in the Americas ’ . |
| 8 | He sacrificed , he sacrificed the quick movement , the rapid changes of circumstance which a certain kind of reader demands , in order to match his description of thinking and feeling to the actual pace at which these things are experienced in real life . |
| 9 | It would be great to bounce back from a temporary aberration and get into the Third Division . |
| 10 | If this advice is ignored , the torque of the seven-foot-diameter propeller , and the airflow it sends corkscrewing down the fuselage and acting on the large fin , causes the relatively light 207 to suddenly aim for the left-hand side of the runway . |
| 11 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 12 | Despite these real successes , however , my sense is that now is a time to take stock and to reflect on the theoretical , pedagogic and political foundations of multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 13 | Moisten the chicken using the reduced stock and garnish with the cooked vegetables from the stock , but discard the bouquet garni . |
| 14 | If you use a pattern such as a basic 1x1 pattern ( that 's one hole punched , one hole blank , all across the card and alternating on the next row ) the resulting fabric has very short floats , not floats at all really ( swatch 6 ) . |
| 15 | I gave up being a bird watcher and succumbed to the delicious trippery feel of sun on my back and sand on my front . |
| 16 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 17 | ‘ Just a case of first-night nerves , ’ I mutter , unlocking my legs and grasping at the steaming mug.Ruthie Henshall opens tonight in Crazy For You at the Prince Edward Theatre , London . |
| 18 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 19 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
| 20 | The women work and eat and sleep in an atmosphere thick with impalpable hairs and tainted with the sickly smell of the skins … the average daily earnings are 1/1d . |
| 21 | The boys play the role of husbands and behave in the same way as they see their fathers do in their respective homesteads . |
| 22 | The study consisted of an analysis of data on retirement and early retirement from the ‘ After Redundancy ’ project conducted by lain Noble , John Westergaard , and Alan Walker and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) . |
| 23 | Objective investigation of phenomena formed only one aspect of a far wider approach , the greatest emphasis being centred consciousness and mind as the underlying reality . |
| 24 | Even at four in the morning , if he woke during a rare , sleepless night , Dexter liked to brush back the curtains of his bedroom and marvel at the twinkling lights . |
| 25 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 26 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 27 | Coming up in a little while we 'll be talking greyhounds , but for now we 'll go back to football and deal with the local classified results with all the local leagues . |
| 28 | The history of religions is a history of intolerance and cruelty towards non-believers , and the love extends only to those who are believers and loved by the same supernatural being . |
| 29 | The channel of communication is the copper wire which carries the electrical signals and runs to the distant end . |
| 30 | The stairwell echoed with the counterpointed sounds of pounding feet , of automatic doors heaving open and slamming shut , of trains arriving and departing , slowing down or gathering speed and hurtling along the narrow cavernous tunnels . |