Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On these occasions you may be offered a job on the spot , so it is very important to have a good understanding of what you want and need from a job before you go . |
| 2 | ‘ in a street ( or public place ) called … ‘ 'Street ’ is defined at section 1(4) Street Offences Act 1959 as any bridge , road , lane , footway , subway , square , court , alley or passage , whether a thoroughfare or not , which is for the time being open to the public , and the doorways and entrances of premises abutting on a street ( as herein before defined ) and any ground adjoining and open to a street , shall form part of the street . |
| 3 | We grow and develop as a result of those interactions . |
| 4 | Nor was it some stranger come to drink and dance and lie with a man in a borrowed bed . |
| 5 | I swallow and speak in a tremor . |
| 6 | I really like my new jacket and hat and scarf , and when we stop and chat with a couple of people from the house , they say how smart I look . |
| 7 | Casually stop and look in a shop window and see whether your suspect keeps walking or stops as well . |
| 8 | I stop and think for a moment — shocked by my act of sadism . |
| 9 | The Willow Craft Trail reveals how willows , or ‘ withies ’ are grown and make into a variety of baskets , furniture and other long lasting items . |
| 10 | Cover and chill in a refrigerator for 30 minutes . |
| 11 | Cooked garlic is thought to lower blood cholesterol , help prevent blood clotting and act as a decongestant , cough medicine , mucus regulator and bronchitis preventor . |
| 12 | The valley is watered by the River Dee which rises high on Blea Moor and is precocious in infancy , playing hide and seek behind a screen of trees , often disappearing in fissures of its limestone bed and emerging to daylight lower downstream . |
| 13 | I sit and fidget like a child . |
| 14 | 3 Place the nuts , raisins , allspice and half of the sesame seeds in a food processor , whizz until blended and transfer to a bowl . |
| 15 | Remove from freezer 30 minutes before eating and scoop into a glass bowl . |
| 16 | ANIMALS suffer and die for a plethora of reasons ; many are arguably trivial . |
| 17 | People sometimes find that their housing requirements change and seek after a period to move on to different kinds of residence , particularly into flats of their own . |
| 18 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 19 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 20 | Examine and agree on a job description first and a contract of employment which you are satisfied with and understand . |
| 21 | When we form a clear and distinct idea of the irrational sides of our nature , they are transformed and become in a soberer form part of the patterned plan of our life . |
| 22 | Thinly slice and drop into a bowl of water and lemon juice to prevent discoloration . |
| 23 | Life cycle analysis is a cradle-to-grave study of the materials and energy used and release during a product 's lifetime — including its production , use , transport and disposal . |
| 24 | I still re-read and enjoy Beyond a Boundary , finding something new , often appreciating a passage that had passed my by earlier . |
| 25 | Nisodemus 's mouth opened and shut for a while . |
| 26 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |
| 27 | And therefore grumbling couples complain in cars on their way to Harley Street from the Home Counties and beg one another not to let them drink too much : therefore Esther and Alix meet and laugh on a street corner a few hundred yards away : therefore stepchildren muster and stepparents-in-law assemble : therefore Liz Headleand 's mother sits alone , ever alone untelephoned , distant , incomprehending , incomprehended , remote , mad , long mad , imprisoned , secret , silent , silenced , listening to the silence of her house . |
| 28 | Taste it , savour it — do n't simply chew and swallow , chew and swallow like a robot , hardly even knowing what you are eating . |
| 29 | Also , I produce and operate in a place and time-zone that colleges , institutions and so on do n't . |
| 30 | In a poignant soliloquy , watching smoke curl into the sky like an ethereal question mark , he exclaims , ‘ Ah , human beings — they tremble and worry like a leaf in the storm because they know and because they do n't know . ’ |