Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 2 | Any incoming mail for guests should be sorted and placed in the letter rack . |
| 3 | A man , understood to be Keith Pringle , remained in the house with Mrs Reece 's 21-year-old daughter Leanne as armed police surrounded and cordoned off the area . |
| 4 | She stared at the creature twisting and wriggling in the glass . |
| 5 | And now the children also saw the long thin slimy yellow-bellied lizard-like creature twisting and turning in the glass , and they squirmed and jumped about as well , shouting , ‘ What is it ? |
| 6 | This section of the Policy covers the Policyholder if they are TOTALLY DISABLED from engaging in or giving attention to THEIR PROFESSION OR OCCUPATION , as disclosed and declared on the policy , as a result of sickness . |
| 7 | The fact that where goods are designed and manufactured to the buyer 's special order the seller will have greater knowledge of the buyer 's requirements and the buyer will rely on the seller 's skill may make it less reasonable for the seller to exclude or limit liability ; on the other , hand , if goods are manufactured to the buyer 's special order , it may be more reasonable to expect the buyer to insure against losses . |
| 8 | These were specially designed and manufactured by the firm of Waygood Otis Ltd , a company still involved with lift mechanism all over the world today . |
| 9 | It owns one steam locomotive especially designed and built for the project which has successfully managed services since it was delivered in October 1986 . |
| 10 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 11 | This border is just one of 30 new designs in Amelia Saint George 's book The Needlepoint & Cross-Stitch Book ( £16.99 , Conran Octopus ) which includes themes such as fruit , butterflies , roses , ribbons , animals and berries — all designed and embroidered by the author . |
| 12 | the way in which people interact is designed and ordered by the organisation structure so as to achieve joint ( organisational ) objectives . |
| 13 | Designed and produced by The Concept Partnership Ltd . |
| 14 | council liable in negligence for injury caused to original tenant arising in £ residential premises designed and owned by the council . |
| 15 | council liable in negligence for injury caused to original tenant arising in residential premises designed and owned by the council . |
| 16 | This survey was designed and supervised by the Library 's Research Officer , , in collaboration with , Planning and Services Officer , whose responsibilities at the time of the Survey included matters relating to conservation . |
| 17 | Now it was leaping and hopping among the grass tussocks , striking at the two rabbits with terrible darts of its head . |
| 18 | I guess it was n't the first tournament to be won and lost on the Road Hole at St Andrews . |
| 19 | EVER since independence , Indian elections have been won and lost in the north . |
| 20 | ‘ Boxing titles are won and lost in the ring and in order to be a champion , you must fight the champion and beat the champion . |
| 21 | It was noted however and then the theory was that perhaps you had stumbled when you were out walking and fallen in the river . |
| 22 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 23 | Leonard spent hours walking and cycling around the neighbourhood looking for it . |
| 24 | A young man with a bad case of acne approached and pointed at the phone . |
| 25 | Mary tottered up on her perch from side to side but nothing wiped the mild , sweet benignity from her doll 's face as she dropped the dew of her mercy down from heaven on the mortal exiles below wailing and weeping in the vale of tears . |
| 26 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 27 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
| 28 | He assumed the best approach was to try and joke with the audience and he asked : ‘ You would n't say to Shakespeare , that was a good book , can we have another chapter now ? |
| 29 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 30 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |