Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 2 | Then fall down to the left and shift right ; the ghost should follow you down and scare the blue guard away . |
| 3 | The shielding protects you — though you still need to do some fancy flying to stay stable within the radioactive thermals — then as the cloud dissipates you cut out and down , across the mountains — they look tiny ! — swoop across the closed valley , loose the missile when the base 's defence radar picks you up and use the last of your fuel to escape over the far side while the missile takes out the base . |
| 4 | Once a chemical has entered a pond and caused widespread damage , it is essential to take everything out and scrub the entire pool several times , emptying and refilling with clean water before restocking with fish and plants . |
| 5 | He urged the Western governments which withdrew their diplomats from Kabul on the eve of the Soviet military withdrawal in January to send them back and stop the psychological war they were waging against his government . |
| 6 | When you 've done that , go get all the other torches up there , bring them back and do the same . ’ |
| 7 | And yet , when she finally , despairingly , screwed herself up and loosed the small words into the drawing room air , her mother said yes . |
| 8 | Almost too late to be of real use , a rehabilitation unit took her in and began the slow , hard work of helping her and her family reconstruct and make sense of their situation . |
| 9 | I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen . |
| 10 | Tom picked him up and watched the two boys disappear round the corner . |
| 11 | She picked him up and shook the poor child until he screamed . |
| 12 | Miranda reached to peck him back and felt the smooth skin on his chin , smelled the lotion he used on his hair ( not bay rum , not like her father , but a sweeter perfume , limewater and rose ) . |
| 13 | This has led to the view that Bismarck 's real aim was to stifle Austro-Russian conflict by attaching Austria-Hungary to Germany , so that he could hold her back and prevent the two autocracies from mutual destruction . |
| 14 | It was an old house there and that 's what she said , it was derelict , they knocked it down and rebuilt the new one . |
| 15 | She lifted it down and read the brief note inside . |
| 16 | Even when she had turned it over and seen the franked stamps she was childishly afraid . |
| 17 | He pulled it off and felt the cold air bite into his hot skin , his scanty hair standing up and waving gently in the breeze . |
| 18 | I 'm not turn it off and re-wind the fucking thing . |
| 19 | He picked it up and tapped the old tobacco out onto the range . |
| 20 | ‘ She covers it up and tells the little girl it 's full of fairies and pretty make-believe so she must n't be scared , and she tells the boy it 's really there , dead , under the shawl . ’ |
| 21 | Er and they 're very sensitive to that and they pick it up and make the most of it . |
| 22 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 23 | She pulled her jumper off and handed it to him , then watched as he spread it out and laid the dead animal on it . |
| 24 | We might have to , we might be able to get away without having to take the board out , if I if I use the old de- solderer might be able to just hook it out and put the next one in . |
| 25 | It was on display for the day and was being steamed so that the boiler inspectors could check it out and issue the necessary documents confirming that it was tested and available to work . |
| 26 | Lucille plucked it out and tickled the sleeping baby with its tip . |
| 27 | It erm security are actually carrying it out and clearing the best positions to , to do so . |
| 28 | A bit of judicious trimming will keep it flowering generously all summer : a careful haircut for the lower half of the plant will hold back the flowers while the top half is in bloom , then when that has finished cut it back and let the lower half flower . |
| 29 | The technique of panning , therefore , is to cause the gold to sink in the pan by jiggling it about and washing the gold-free surface gravel out over the rim of the pan . |
| 30 | It goes on there , well done , let's turn it round and see the whole , whole thing , there you are , there 's a great big picture of with his tail falling off , there we go . |