Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 2 | LEFT Tiny plant and animal remains , retrieved through wet sieving , are sorted and studied under a microscope . |
| 3 | I do n't recommend this as a tactic unless the rest of your cavalry is already engaged , or he could be surrounded and overwhelmed by a mass of lesser troops . |
| 4 | SONGUL KARABULUT and FIKRI KELES : Suspected members of Devrimci Sol ( Revolutionary Left ) , both were killed when police surrounded and fired on a flat in the Dikmen district of Ankara on 4 May 1992 . |
| 5 | L lived some two miles from the burgled premises and during the morning of June 4 , police officers saw bin liners and a cardboard box being carried out of L's home and put into a car . |
| 6 | A member of a board , although not affected by one of the statutory disqualifications above mentioned , may be so closely associated with the subject-matter of the proceedings as to make it improper that he should act and vote as a member of the board in connection with them . |
| 7 | These teaching materials are techniques made manifest by the specific choice of language , designed and arranged as a series of tasks or exercises for immediate implementation . |
| 8 | Project Blaenau , as the F.R. called it , grew rapidly from the first meeting of the three-man ‘ Communications and Action Panel ’ in early 1980 and in the two years leading up to the opening , over 70 mini projects were designed and constructed by a combination of volunteers and paid staff . |
| 9 | Designed and made as a present from the emperor for his niece . |
| 10 | In this month 's competition you could win a prize patio worth £3,000 , designed and built by a Chelsea medal-winner |
| 11 | His hypothesis was that living watches were literally designed and built by a master watchmaker . |
| 12 | Wagamama was designed and built by a firm called JSP , from a conceptual sketch by John Pawson ( the renowned minimalist architect responsible for Wakaba , the expensive Japanese restaurant in Finchley Road ) . |
| 13 | This is the name of a machine designed and built by a team led by Aleksander . |
| 14 | Systems have alreeady been designed and installed for a variety of chilled products , including sandwiches , poulty and poultry products , prime cuts of meat , meat products , such as pies and pasties , pizzas and so on . |
| 15 | At this point it may be helpful to try and distinguish between a witness and an evangelist . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 17 | Killion was too exhausted by the feeble air , and the cold , and the need to watch the airfield , to try and think of a reason . |
| 18 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
| 19 | He 's a very , very emotional , unstable dictator , who 's just been determined somehow to exploit his position geographically , in the Middle East , to try and emerge as a sort of mini superpower , and to that end , he 's done a lot of terrible things , of which the invasion of Kuwait was really only one . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the idea of theory may itself need to be theorized and regarded with a measure of scepticism , like other honorific terms in contemporary discourse , such as ‘ politics ’ and ‘ history ’ . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the first type relies on the information provided by the second which polishes , refines and leads to a redefinition of the problem . |
| 22 | Another Harvard dealer moved to Sheppards , a Stock Exchange member firm , where he was telephoned and abused by a Harvard Securities director . |
| 23 | Wallace and Speed were the scorers … shame Town ca n't appeal and ask for a replay … |
| 24 | His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis . |
| 25 | to come and talk like a child to yourself — no one is listening . |
| 26 | I invite her to come and sit at a table with Kurowski and me , but she prefers to remain on duty at the bar . |
| 27 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 28 | Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume . |
| 29 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 30 | They disembarked and stayed in a tavern near the Tower for the rest of the day . |