Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Lahore symbolized military power , Victoria Terminus represented a scientific and commercial dominance which could suck in and re-process a whole range of other cultures . |
| 2 | Tapes cut in and overlaid the unearthly siren-call of the electro-acoustic instrument , and Minerva 's cello answered the melodic tonality with a delicately offhand echo . |
| 3 | President Nicéphore Soglo , who was flown to hospital in Paris on March 28 after defeating Mathieu Kérékou in the presidential elections [ see p. 38084 ] , flew home on April 3 to be sworn in and to appoint a provisional government , before returning to Paris for further treatment on April 13 . |
| 4 | Shepherd switched the hologram off , then reached in and lifted the flexible plate up . |
| 5 | Or is it gulped down quickly , before someone comes in and points an accusing finger ? |
| 6 | It 's just a question of finding the right people to bring in and form a fashion-design group . |
| 7 | Joe looked in and saw a dark stairway . |
| 8 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 9 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 10 | If we 're going to go in and make a positive impact in certain parts of the region , erm then both my staff and myself and our colleagues who are working in the arts in the region have got to pull even harder together to make sure that we can make the partnership between us bureaucrats and the artist really be as effective as possible for the broadest range of the community . |
| 11 | He reached in and wrenched the little bundle of plastic bands out of my hands , and I sat there , silent , watching as he fumbled the bands into position with the little cup to hold the weapon under his right armpit . |
| 12 | When I did return , I locked myself in and heaved the great oak table against the door and fastened the windows . |
| 13 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't want anyone bursting in and getting the wrong idea , like you have , ’ Donna said , smiling again . |
| 15 | they step in and take a positive lead when things are n't progressing well . |
| 16 | Then your Mam used to make p pastry and put these beastlings in and make a beastling custard . |
| 17 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 18 | It should provide a place where children can meet and talk with adults who live in and serve the local community — the fireman , the nurse , the secretary , the shopkeeper , the police officer , the craftsman and craftswoman . |
| 19 | I thought that I would go in and explain the whole thing to him and explain that there was no point in creating trouble unnecessarily . |
| 20 | And not forgetting the voluntary support , ‘ who come in and keep a live link with the wider world . ’ |
| 21 | It also meant that the boys could see in and witness the general untidiness of his tiny room . |
| 22 | I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen . |
| 23 | Oh then she come straight in and cornered the bloody paper . |
| 24 | It ended in a fight — I hit him , he hit me — then the teacher came in and broke the whole thing up . |
| 25 | After dark the men of the SAS crept in and obtained the necessary tentage and equipment to set themselves up , including even a piano for the officers ' mess . |
| 26 | Now it looks as though the Council of Europe might step in and establish a small network of centres of excellence for postgraduate research and training . |
| 27 | Somebody comes in and runs a separate form puts all their customer and all they 're doing is when the orders change they just put the and it prints out notes and labels and if you 've got hundreds of them it saves a job in time and money and the girl . |
| 28 | I 've done everything from working on a building site for a week and promising to bring me cards in and giving a false name , to er potato picking erm doing hay , anything . |
| 29 | Stock market sources said that the Hoare Govett buying dried up after about 60 million Ferranti shares had been traded , at which point Smith New Court stepped in and remained an aggressive buyer at 56p until the close . |
| 30 | ‘ It should be a warning to them that if they 're really serious about fighting drug abuse , they need to step in and take a leading role . |